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COlt + rUGER = COUGER?
I found a Ruger Security-Six mated to a Colt Python barrel and had to bring it home, even if just for oddity's sense. I 've seen the Smith-Python barrel combos regularly over the years, but this is only the second Ruger-Python I've seen. Does anyone know who built these and when? The revolver is done is very well done and has a very high-polish blue finish, except for the matte parts of the rib. There is an added ball-detent on the yoke for lock-up, and the hammer and trigger are jewelled. The double action and single action trigger are nothing short of light and buttery smooth, approaching those of a Custom Shop Python.
(I have some pictures but can't figure out the whole "Picture Hosting Site".)
Pictures of mine at:

http://www.arizonashooting.com/forums/v ... hp?t=46052

Thanks for your help. Steve

Very COOL! Looks like they belong together.

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First heard of these back in the '70s. I think Lou Ciamillo (Maryland Gun Works) may have done some. Possibly Behlert and a few others.

Bill Davis in Northern California built a bunch of Smythons/Smolts and may have built some of these, too.

Very different and very cool!

Wow! That pair was made for each other!

Nice grips on that big wheel gun.

Sweet looking Couger!

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NEAT Gun!!! I have seen ONE of the "Couger" customs "In Person"--that's what the friend who had it called it--"Co" for "Colt" and "uger" for "Ruger"--but I do NOT know who built his...his was all STAINLESS, BTW, so it musta' been in the late '80's or early '90's when I saw it. Sadly, he has left this world, and I don't know what happened to his guns...
OTOH, earlier posters are correct that the Bill Davis shop built quite a few of these, altho' more were built on the S&W K-frame than on the Ruger DA's...and "MGW" DID build at least a few of 'em as well...IIRC, I saw one "Written Up" by Mas Ayoob in "Combat Handguns" a number of years ago, and, back when I did the "Auction Site" thing--spent WAY too much $$$--I saw at least ONE MGW-built "Couger" for sale back then...HTH....mikey357

I remember reading that Bill Davis built many of these revolvers on Ruger and S&W k-frames , I know he had in interest in a cop shop with George Cake in Berkeley Ca in the late 1970's