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Posted: Sat Sep 07, 2019 7:27 pm
Hello from SE Idaho
Now that I've retired, I guess it's time to collect guns. I've owned and shot many guns over the years, many different brands, but I always come back to Ruger. Right now I have 22 or 23 Rugers, several that I'm going to build a real collection around, I have four "50th Anniversary" guns, and the ROCS 60th Super Blackhawk, I have a couple that I'm leaving unfired, and my personal favorite is "Betsy". All of my fathers favorite things were named Betsey for some reason, his '56 Ford pickup, his '66 Super Sport, his dune buggy and motorcycle, and his three digit .41 Blackhawk. I learned how to reload with Betsy, ammo wasn't available for over a year after dad got her, so I got to cut down (I may be wrong, but, I remember the parent brass being .303 British) and clean up brass that he would take out to the Army Depot he worked at, he'd turn the rims down to the proper diameter on a lathe, load them and blast away. I got Betsy from him in 2012, just before he died, he was shooting her up till a couple of years before he passed (at 86). I hope to learn a lot here, I'll never make a world class collection on retirement pay, but I hope to have a lot of fun anyway.
Now that I've retired, I guess it's time to collect guns. I've owned and shot many guns over the years, many different brands, but I always come back to Ruger. Right now I have 22 or 23 Rugers, several that I'm going to build a real collection around, I have four "50th Anniversary" guns, and the ROCS 60th Super Blackhawk, I have a couple that I'm leaving unfired, and my personal favorite is "Betsy". All of my fathers favorite things were named Betsey for some reason, his '56 Ford pickup, his '66 Super Sport, his dune buggy and motorcycle, and his three digit .41 Blackhawk. I learned how to reload with Betsy, ammo wasn't available for over a year after dad got her, so I got to cut down (I may be wrong, but, I remember the parent brass being .303 British) and clean up brass that he would take out to the Army Depot he worked at, he'd turn the rims down to the proper diameter on a lathe, load them and blast away. I got Betsy from him in 2012, just before he died, he was shooting her up till a couple of years before he passed (at 86). I hope to learn a lot here, I'll never make a world class collection on retirement pay, but I hope to have a lot of fun anyway.