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LMLarsen
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Calebib comes through again!
LMLarsen
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I decided to add a ring and lanyard to my old Ruger Service Six, in anticipation for getting back to hiking in our nearby National Forest and getting my slowly recovering leg back into shape. Hamilton Bowen offers a ring to replace the factory grip screw for Hogue rubber grips, but there is nothing for their wood grips. He does, however, sell rings with unfinished shafts.
I called him and ordered one in stainless, which was then shipped off to our resident gunsmith calebib, who has done excellent work for me and others here, along with the stock Hogue screw for the checkered monogrip I added to the revolver last year. He trimmed it, turned it, and threaded it, and here is the splendid result in a hasty and unflattering pic.
The lanyard will come later, once I decide which one to get. In the meantime, I got a ring blank for calebib too, for a personal project he's working on. He'll be along later on that.
Thanks, amigo! :beer:
I called him and ordered one in stainless, which was then shipped off to our resident gunsmith calebib, who has done excellent work for me and others here, along with the stock Hogue screw for the checkered monogrip I added to the revolver last year. He trimmed it, turned it, and threaded it, and here is the splendid result in a hasty and unflattering pic.
The lanyard will come later, once I decide which one to get. In the meantime, I got a ring blank for calebib too, for a personal project he's working on. He'll be along later on that.
Thanks, amigo! :beer:
“A gun is a tool, no better or no worse than any other tool: an axe, a shovel or anything. A gun is as good or as bad as the man using it. Remember that.”
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I'd rather have my sister work in a whorehouse than own another Taurus!
Well done that man.
Yeah, but I loaned my bullwhip to Wambli when he made Moderator and now he won't give it back! :jester:
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Calebib does excellent work; he's made his bones here with several of us, and I recommend him highly.
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I never used a lanyard while shooting. The military .38 they armed us with had the ring and swivel and was used to tie the revolver
into the pouch on our survival vests or not depending on the squadron and location.
I did use the ring and swivel to assist in gripping the small wooden grips during range sessions, however. The ring was shaped differently as I remember.
I assume Bowen did this to eliminate the risk of having the lanyard wrap itself around the firearm as the ring swiveled around the grip. The ring itself does jingle a bit without anything attached, but that should quiet down once a lanyard is mounted on it.
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All I've seen is pictures of his work, but you can tell even in a picture it is of the highest quality work. If he lived closer to me I would send him work. My gun smith is good, as far as fitting parts and headspacing and triggers, but he is not the finishing artist Cale is.
Son that's somebody with nothing to do with his time but keep me in trouble with mom.
What did cleopatra say to the asp?
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My local guy, Sam Hatfield, is my go-to for most of my work, but for the good stuff on my "keepers," Caleb is my guy.
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Nice work Caleb! :beer:
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Son that's somebody with nothing to do with his time but keep me in trouble with mom.
Son that's somebody with nothing to do with his time but keep me in trouble with mom.