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I don't think a lot of subcribers in Ruger's low serial number program (begun August/September 1957) got the Bearcat. Might have been one of those hindsight things after they cleared out their inventory of two digit Single-Sixes, Lightweights and .357 and .44 Blackhawks that they never thought to also inquire if they wanted their number in the Bearcat that started shipping mid 1958. I know the writers got theirs pretty much, but did anybody else?Brass Frame wrote: ↑Wed May 03, 2023 6:19 am Hey, does anyone know where Bearcat # 40 resides? I have looked for years and never found any opportunities! And I keep looking
Brass Frame/Lee E
chet15 wrote: ↑Wed May 03, 2023 4:01 pmI don't think a lot of subcribers in Ruger's low serial number program (begun August/September 1957) got the Bearcat. Might have been one of those hindsight things after they cleared out their inventory of two digit Single-Sixes, Lightweights and .357 and .44 Blackhawks that they never thought to also inquire if they wanted their number in the Bearcat that started shipping mid 1958. I know the writers got theirs pretty much, but did anybody else?Brass Frame wrote: ↑Wed May 03, 2023 6:19 am Hey, does anyone know where Bearcat # 40 resides? I have looked for years and never found any opportunities! And I keep looking
Brass Frame/Lee E
So that my friends is probably why there are more two digit flattops and Single-Sixes known per model than there are Bearcats. They got out and got used.
Chet15
chet15 wrote: ↑Wed May 03, 2023 4:02 pmchet15 wrote: ↑Wed May 03, 2023 4:01 pmI don't think a lot of subscribers in Ruger's low serial number program (begun August/September 1957) got the Bearcat. Might have been one of those hindsight things after they cleared out their inventory of two digit Single-Sixes, Lightweights and .357 and .44 Blackhawks that they never thought to also inquire if they wanted their number in the Bearcat that started shipping mid 1958. I know the writers got theirs pretty much, and Fred Davis, Jr. got his, but did anybody else?Brass Frame wrote: ↑Wed May 03, 2023 6:19 am Hey, does anyone know where Bearcat # 40 resides? I have looked for years and never found any opportunities! And I keep looking
Brass Frame/Lee E
So that my friends is probably why there are more two digit flattops and Single-Sixes known per model than there are Bearcats. They got out and got used.
So why not a $2,500 two-digit Bearcat??? The old days are gone folks.
And now that I think about it... how many two digit Magnum Single-Sixes has anybody ever heard of??? Only the writers received theirs as far as I know (300009, 300013, 300015, 300022, 300023 etc.). So it would seem that subscriber numbers (after the writers guns) may not have been asked if they wanted their serial number on a new model until maybe the Super Blackhawk was introduced in 1959? Did later subcribers get their two-digit Super Blackhawk? Fred Davis, Jr. got his #51... Did anybody else???
Perhaps the "other" subscribers didn't start receiving other models until the .44 Carbine/10/22 ???
How about the Hawkeye ???
Chet15