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rpm enterprises
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Interesting document

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This was printed February 1976. Looks like production numbers of firearms Ruger manufactured.
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Hawkeye28
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Lots to extrapolate here! For starters, look at the small number of 45 OM Blackhawks!(there were nearly two and one half times the number of 44 OM Flattops!) And, the relatively small number of 30 Carbine OM Blackhawks...As well as the few Number Ones!..........Study up and look at the market for these guns today. Some sleepers out there...........Splitz 8-)
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zebra55
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where did this come from???
johncdougan
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Post by johncdougan »

Hello guys,

This sheet was generated by Ruger and distributed within to key personnel in sales and management depts. There should be a list of names on it to indicate to whom the report was distributed. There were several different formats of these reports and of others to indicate ongoing production data. They were intended to be semi-confidential. I mined information from the different reports during the research period for Ruger Pistols & Revolvers.

John
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I really found the information very interesting and the fact of how few No 1 guns were made in 1973. Just checked my ruger letters and unfortunately I don't own any from that year. That would be a pretty rare gun to have indeed.
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I have one of those documents that list the series' as shown from 1949 through 1984 with the rifles I believe ending in 1980, attributed back to either Jim Triggs or Walter Howe.
Note the initials at the bottom.... W.J.H... Walter J. Howe.
Many may not recognize that name but Walter Howe was Editor of the American Rifleman from 1955 to about 1971 I believe. Did things in various capacity for Bill Ruger and/or the factory.
Howe also authored a thick book on gunsmithing in 1946.
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