

Your gun has an XR3-RED grip frame and alloy ER housing, and looks like it's not marked Magnum on the frame. "And the other question is, if this gun sold specifically as the 'magnum' model, and not a convertible, does that mean it originally shipped with just the magnum cylinder? Or did it ship with both the LR and the Magnum cylinder?" "Or did it ship with both the LR and the Magnum cylinder?"ĭUE TO THE LACK OF THE MAG MARKED FRAME, YOURS MOST LIKELY SHIPPED AS A CONVERTIBLE WITH BOTH CYLS DEPENDING ON WHAT YOU FIND SCRATCHED ON THE FRONT OF THE CYLS. AND GRIPS COULD HAVE BEEN UPGRADED TO WALNUT AS WELL. DOES YOUR BOX HAVE THE SERIAL # OF YOUR GUN WRITTEN ON IT SOMEWHERE?īOX MARKINGS ARE NOT FULLPROOF.

BUT YOUR GUN ALSO HAS WALNUT GRIPS WHICH MEANS IT SHOULD HAVE A W IN THE CAT. YOUR BOX INDICATES IT DID BECAUSE THERE IS NO X AT THE END OF THE CAT. "And the other question is, if this gun sold specifically as the 'magnum' model, and not a convertible, does that mean it originally shipped with just the magnum cylinder?" "When I look in Ruger and his Guns, the tables in the back list my Serial Number (3725XX) as falling in the 'Magnum' model, and if I am reading it right, this gun was make in 1963.
