Need to verify whether it was March 1963 for the earliest Hawkeye/protected sight .357 Blackhawk advertisement.
Chet15
Ruger advertising
Re: Ruger advertising
Chad, the earliest I know of for the Hawkeye & protected sight .357 Blackhawk was in the Feb. 1963 issue of the NRA's American Rifleman Magazine. Don Findley also found an ad for me just for the Hawkeye in the 1962 Shooters Bible. I have pictures of the two ads in my article about Hawkeye #8 in the Spring issue of our ROCS Digest magazine on pages 32 & 33.
Bill
Bill