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12 February 2008, 01:14
ShortandFat
Where did Ruger get "HAWKEYE" from ?
Gentelmen

Just a bit of trivia

The new Ruger "Hawkeye"

Does it have anything to do with Rugers' relationship with Callaway Golf when it was welding and fabricating Titanium Driver Heads for them?

Callaway did have the Warbird Big Bertha and Hawkeye models

Now work that one out ?

regards
S&F
12 February 2008, 01:47
buckeyeshooter
Ruger had a single shot pistol in the late 60's called the "hawkeye". It was marketed toward varmint hunters. My bet is that this pistol is a re-intro of the old one. They have a record of this -- blackhawk then new blackhawk, ect.
I don't think it has anything to do with golf.
12 February 2008, 05:47
jeffeosso
Natty Bumppo. Known as Leatherstocking, Hawkeye, and Pathfinder
http://www.loc.gov/nls/bibliographies/minibibs/cooper.html
american pennydreadfuls, tales of the wild, akin to calling it the dan'l boone, or the davie crocket

jeffe


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12 February 2008, 09:17
doccash
I think Buckeyeshooter is on the track. Dr.C


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12 February 2008, 09:35
ShortandFat
Your right gents, I think it's more like Callaway Golf got the idea from the shooting industry not the otherway around

regards
S&F
12 February 2008, 17:52
jeffeosso
quote:
Originally posted by doccash:
I think Buckeyeshooter is on the track. Dr.C


LOL, yeah, that's right.. ruger named a rifle after their failed pistol, not an american hunter/woodsman/folk hero....


opinions vary band of bubbas and STC hunting Club

Information on Ammoguide about
the416AR, 458AR, 470AR, 500AR
What is an AR round? Case Drawings 416-458-470AR and 500AR.
476AR,
http://www.weaponsmith.com
12 February 2008, 21:24
butchloc
you mean it wasn't after hawkeye in MASH?? Big Grin
13 February 2008, 10:56
doccash
jeffeosso, don't you wish you had 10 of those "failures" to sell on todays mkt.? Dr.C


At Home on the Range-Texas Panhandle
14 February 2008, 06:49
buckeyeshooter
I wish I did! You could buy a nice new gun with the proceeds
14 March 2008, 18:47
Dr. Lou
The "Last of the Mohicans," by James Fenimore. At least that's where MASH's Hawkeye got his name. Lou


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16 March 2008, 22:32
jeffeosso
quote:
Originally posted by Dr. Lou:
The "Last of the Mohicans," by James Fenimore. At least that's where MASH's Hawkeye got his name. Lou


quote:
The Last of the Mohicans

Follows Natty's exploits against the Huron Indians in the Lake Champlain region. 1826

RC 19920

BRA 12110



opinions vary band of bubbas and STC hunting Club

Information on Ammoguide about
the416AR, 458AR, 470AR, 500AR
What is an AR round? Case Drawings 416-458-470AR and 500AR.
476AR,
http://www.weaponsmith.com
17 March 2008, 18:54
Larry Sellers
Mabye someone could just call the Ruger factory and ask them how they came up with the name?? Dah!!

Larry Sellers
SCI Life Member
17 March 2008, 20:56
Dr. Lou
quote:
The Last of the Mohicans

Follows Natty's exploits against the Huron Indians in the Lake Champlain region. 1826

RC 19920

BRA 12110

Jeffeosso, you're a gentleman and a Scholar! beer Lou


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18 March 2008, 19:10
.366torque
quote:
Originally posted by Dr. Lou:
Jeffeosso, you're a gentleman and a Scholar! beer Lou


SSHHHHHhhhhh.... Your going to tarnish his image.
20 March 2008, 16:26
Dr. Lou
Sorry, I forgot where I was at. lol Lou


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21 March 2008, 00:36
mete
Of course it's Natty Bumpo !! thumb A fine man indeed ! But the 1826 can't be right ,try a little earlier .It's apparently written in 1826 but about an earlier time.