I'm like up-to-date in watching Gun Stories. Yahoo!
I mean, everybody knows the Ruger pistol was a game changer. Easier and cheaper to make. Inherently more accurate. I didn't really know the history of Sturm, but now I do. And it's a pity he died so young. What an impact he might have had on the industry.
It was neat to see how the Ruger pistol had a tie to Jim Clark and Clark Custom Guns. (For those who don't know Jim Clark is Jerry Miculek's father-in-law, Kay's father.)
And welcome Eric Katzenberg, TV Producer, to gun stories. Another new face.
I own one, btw, a Mark I, 6" with adjustable rear and full undercut front target sights. A local indoor range was running a series of tin-can, .22lr shoots in the 1970's. I shot for 3 weeks with a PPK/s and went home to tell the wife I could win that thing if I had a decent gun. The next day I drove to a store called "Guns Unlimited" and I bought that Ruger. With almost no range time on the new gun I won the cash prize fairly easily the next week. Now my times would be laughed at by today's Shooting Steel and Binachi Cup competitors, but it worked for that match. The range never had another tin-can shoot, but I still have that gun and hope to take it to a Ruger match some day.