Virginia Gun Owners Forum - VGOF

Guys I REALLY NEED YOUR HELP!!!!!! I can get a Dragoon, says 1974 in its side sempfo***** under the grips, stainless steel, 44mag for $300.00 at a pawn shop. I have read an article on them and it said that some had timing issues and rough bore's. THEY WERE MADE IN YOUR BACK YARD, what do you guys think of them????
The same shop has a 44 LC, BLUE, HARDENED, also and will sell both to me for $550.00 or $300.00 each one sep. I have to get back there before they are gone but IF THEY ARE KNOWN FOR TIMING PROBLEMS, HE CAN KEEP BOTH OF THEM.
I found a forum and everyone on it loved theirs NO MENTION OF TIMING PROBLEMS OR BORE PROBLEMS!!!
HELP ME ASAP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

WHOOPS VIRGINIAN BIG FINGERS

JMHO, but if they are of the fixed sight flavor, that seems a bit much. It would be top dollar for the sighted version. Here is mine,(44MAG) and the rig that was made special for it by the big "B" brand name. All this from the late 70's, before the plant burned down. Never have had any timing problems with mine either.

I have one and it is a fine pistol, especially for that price. Fit and finish of mine is between Ruger and S&W IMHO. It's been a while since I looked into them, but IIRC, it depended on when they were made. Interarms had a storied history and at some point they did turn out junk (or so I hear), at other times they turned out good pistols.

Mines .44Mag and stainless.

Not made in VA, they were imported by Interarms. Good, basic single-action revolvers. $300 is a good price unless there's something wrong with it.

jrswanson1 wrote:Not made in VA, they were imported by Interarms. Good, basic single-action revolvers. $300 is a good price unless there's something wrong with it.

The Virginian wasn't, the Dragoon was. The factory was in Fauquier County.

The original Virginians were made by Hammereli, imported by Interarms in the mid 1970's, and were basically fixed sight copies of a Colt Single Action Army. The later version, the Virginian Dragoon, which you describe, was produced by Interarms in their own factory in Virginia, sometime around 1977 or 1978. The design itself was much stronger than the Colt SAA, with a larger frame and cylinder for the .44 Magnum cartridge; and the addition of a ramp front sight and fully adjustable rear sight. Initailly offered with a blued and color case hardened frame finish; within a few years stainless steel models were being made as well. The last catalog listing that I could find for them was in 1987. It was a very well made gun, using a spring loaded firing pin design, the Swiss Safe hammer block, along with a coil mainspring.

http://www.thehighroad.org/archive/inde ... 04043.html

In 1976, production was assumed by Interarms Industries of Midland, VA. The decision to break ties with Hammerli was largely based on dollar depreciation as experienced in the mid-1970s. In other words, as U.S. currency was devalued, it became unprofitable to import the Virginian. Sam Cumming’s solution involved a 25,000 square foot plant that was built on the edge of a 350 acre farm. Ten of the 350 acres was for the production site, while the remaining 340 was farmed. At its peak, the staff totaled around 70, with most of the workers being long-time residents of Fauquier County.

http://www.singleactions.com/VADragoons.pdf