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Type IX ?

Posted: Tue Jul 07, 2020 1:34 pm
by Roadglide
I think I may have stumbled across an unfired type IX? However the grips are not anything I could find any info on in that time period. #213xx
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Re: Type IX ?

Posted: Tue Jul 07, 2020 2:22 pm
by chet15
The grips are not factory.
Are you sure it is a blue trigger? Looks like a lot of chrome on it.
Chet15

Re: Type IX ?

Posted: Tue Jul 07, 2020 3:33 pm
by jowdurt
If I remember right, the type IX serial numbers fall in amoung the type VIII serial numbers. If the trigger is not blue it is a type VIII.

SRV

Re: Type IX ?

Posted: Tue Jul 07, 2020 3:38 pm
by theo98
Roadglide wrote: Tue Jul 07, 2020 1:34 pm I think I may have stumbled across an unfired type IX?...
Overall, looks in great condition...just need some period grips :!:

JD's right, probably a Type VIII!

Ted

Re: Type IX ?

Posted: Tue Jul 07, 2020 4:48 pm
by SteveRuger
Those Grips are after market J. Scott grips.

Re: Type IX ?

Posted: Tue Jul 07, 2020 5:02 pm
by Roadglide
chet15 wrote: Tue Jul 07, 2020 2:22 pm The grips are not factory.
Are you sure it is a blue trigger? Looks like a lot of chrome on it.
Chet15
Chet no plating on trigger. Not blued either. I have another type IX and that trigger is blued. I can't remember where I read or heard of another type IX that the trigger wasn't blued either. may have been RCA?

Re: Type IX ?

Posted: Fri Jul 10, 2020 11:35 am
by chet15
Maybe Ruger forgot to blue that one?
Could look like a zinc casting only?
If you take the grip frame off you should be able see one way or the other by looking at the top of the trigger.
Chet15

Re: Type IX ?

Posted: Fri Jul 10, 2020 12:32 pm
by Roadglide
I did take them off to check out the manufacture of the grips and the trigger, it's not plated. I was just looking back through my notes and there is another type IX not plated or blued.
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