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CraigC · May 24, 2009, 10:34 AM

Beyond the original XR3 and XR3-RED, you can't trust Ruger's grip frame stampings. After that point, there is very little logic to their numbering and the new XR3's are not even marked. Thus, we tend to disregard them and don't refer to the New Model XR3-RED as the XRN-3RED. So in effect, we're both right. And no, I fully understood the Ruger grip frame debacle long before Bill Hamm wrote his article.

May 24, 2009, 10:34 AM	#30
CraigC Junior member Join Date: November 28, 2001 Location: West Tennessee Posts: 4,300	Beyond the original XR3 and XR3-RED, you can't trust Ruger's grip frame stampings. After that point, there is very little logic to their numbering and the new XR3's are not even marked. Thus, we tend to disregard them and don't refer to the New Model XR3-RED as the XRN-3RED. So in effect, we're both right. And no, I fully understood the Ruger grip frame debacle long before Bill Hamm wrote his article.