![]() This is accomplished by the use of a transfer bar. A hombre can carry all six cylinders loaded and not have to worry about blowing a. The Ruger has some safety features that the Colt and its copies are lacking. ![]() The front sight is tall, so it takes a little practice to find where to hold - unless you want to file it down, which is why they make them with that tall to begin with. The fixed sights were dead on from the factory. I have found the Vaqueros to be very accurate. It is common for the Cowboy Action shooters to do a trigger job on these. I didn’t measure them but would say they are in the 3-4 pound range. The trigger pull on the ones I have shot have been good and crisp. They are well balanced and have a natural point of aim. Holding an actual piece of history in your hand is priceless but so is being able to run boxes and boxes of rounds through a well balanced shoot’n iron made from modern steel. So how does this “Peacemaker” stack up to the original? Well, there is nothing like shooting an original Colt, but that’s not a bad thing for the Ruger. It should also be noted that shooting reloads voids Ruger’s warranty. The new model is not rated for these loads. Most reloading manuals have Ruger specific data. These are sought after by reloaders who want to use hot loads. The old model has thicker cylinder walls than most other revolvers. The New Vaquero was introduced in 2005 and is smaller, matching the Colt’s dimensions more closely. The original model was slightly larger than the Colt. Since the Vaquero was introduced in 1993, Ruger has made one major design change. ![]() The Vaquero is offered with three different grips - Standard, Bisley and Birdshead. The sound of Old West justice being dealt, the revenge killing, desperadoes holding up a bank - or a dude dressed like a Hollywood hero blazing glory at silhouettes of “bad guys.” This makes it sound different than the the hammer rolling back on an old Colt, but the sound it makes when the trigger falls is the same. Ruger’s coiled springs give the Vaquero a smooth, even action than the traditional leaf springs used by Colt can’t match. The Vaquero takes the aesthetics from the Wild West and marries it with modern features. This Ruger was developed to contend in Cowboy Action Shooting competitions. Calling the Vaquero a reproduction of the Colt would be wrong. The Vaquero is Strum, Ruger, & Company’s take on the classic Colt single action, “The Peacemaker”, of Wild West fame. ![]()
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