REAL VAQUERO CONFUSION IS HERE!

JT
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Friday, April 26, 2019, 09:25 (2685 days ago)

I stopped at my local gun shop, Buckhorn, this morning to pick up my three new Ruger Wranglers. As I looked in the display case I saw a stainless steel Ruger with a tag marked "Ruger New Vaquero .44 Magnum." I said wait a minute this can't be right! What have you got here. He handed it to me and I looked at it seemed to me the frame size was the original Vaquero so to make sure we measured it with a another original Vaquero they had and sure enough it was a large frame. The caliber marking was different than I've seen on any other Old or New Vaquero and the frame was definitely marked New Vaquero. The hammer is low and wide and the front sight is serrated. As I left they said they would check to see if they can figure it out. They had taken the gun in on trade just this week. I just got a call from them and what they found is this is a special distributor edition and is actually on the large frame, however it is marked like the small frame. So now we have Vaquero, Old Vaquero, New Vaquero, and New Old Vaquero or maybe Old New Vaquero.

THEY DON'T SEEM TO CALL THOSE

JT
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Friday, April 26, 2019, 09:37 (2685 days ago) @ Burban

NEW VAQUEROS. THE ONE I SAW HAD A STANDARD GRIP FRAME AND 5-1/2" BARREL.

JT, is it like this one in my LGS?...

Huey
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Friday, April 26, 2019, 10:14 (2685 days ago) @ JT

THAT IS IT.

JT
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Friday, April 26, 2019, 10:21 (2685 days ago) @ Huey

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Scratched my head about that one too...

Huey
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Friday, April 26, 2019, 10:30 (2685 days ago) @ JT

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Frame Size

Gg2
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Friday, April 26, 2019, 11:10 (2685 days ago) @ Huey

Ruger discontinued the Vaquero, which was on the large “BH size” frame (Old Vaquero) 2 digit prefix.
Then came the New Vaquero, Medium Frame, 3 digit prefix.
Then the 44 Mag came back, won’t work on the Medium Frame, so it is a Large Frame, It is a 2 digit prefix.

Manufacture Dates

Gg2
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Friday, April 26, 2019, 11:17 (2685 days ago) @ Gg2

To clarify a little more:
Vaquero 1993-2005. DISCONTINUED
New Vaquero 2005 to present.
2 digit prefix Large Frame
3 digit prefix Medium Frame

Talo Edition. Here's the link...

Huey
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Friday, April 26, 2019, 11:24 (2685 days ago) @ Gg2

That with Garys fiber optic front sight would be nice

Derek
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Friday, April 26, 2019, 11:30 (2685 days ago) @ Huey

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Gg2, thanks but remember this is a handgun forum and most of

anthony l.
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Friday, April 26, 2019, 13:38 (2685 days ago) @ Gg2

the guys on here are handgun hunters and that stuff is well known. You are preaching to the choir.

If it confused John Taffin, I'm OUT!

WB
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Friday, April 26, 2019, 14:24 (2685 days ago) @ anthony l.

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Lipsey’s edition from recently

Curt
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Friday, April 26, 2019, 15:20 (2685 days ago) @ JT

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it's weird. The original Vaquero was made for over 10`years

Gary Reeder
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Friday, April 26, 2019, 16:37 (2685 days ago) @ JT

and I think the 44 mag was the least liked of them all. The buyers of the Vaquero were cowboy shooters and they didn't want the 44 Magnum. And handgun hunters weren't interested due to no sights. So they were real hard to sell. Now as a special edition the 44 Magnum Vaquero is back and everybody is drooling over it. The cowboy action shooting has about run it's gamut as the head honchos have instilled so many rules and regulations and regulated it to death to where it isn't family fun anymore. So I guess now is the time to bring the 44 Magnum Vaquero back out. Maybe.

What's in a name?

David R
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Monday, April 29, 2019, 09:48 (2682 days ago) @ JT

I bought one of these about a year ago: It is a original Vaquero in .44 mag, 5 1/2 in barrel, stainless with a wide and low Blackhawk hammer. It is exactly as describe below and it came with black wooden grips. It states on the frame, "Ruger New Vaquero .44 Magnum." Its a shooter, a keeper and probably made up of all the spare parts in the warehouse.

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