![]() ![]() 22 LR/.22 Magnum revolver comes with a fluted LR cylinder and a nonfluted. ![]() The New Model that is probably the most common, and the most useful to the small game hunter and outdoorsman, is the Super Single Six Convertible model NR6. Single Sixes are offered in blue, satin stainless steel, and gloss stainless steel finishes, and with barrels of 4 5/8, 5 1/2, 6 1/2, and 9 1/2 inches in length. ![]() The grip panels are usually rosewood, but some models feature black micarta or simulated ivory grips. There are New Model Single Sixes with round top rather than flat top frames, fixed or adjustable sights, and "Bisley," "bird's head," and traditional Western grip shapes. I counted 14 variations in the 2003 Ruger catalog. ![]() Over the years there have been many models of Single Six revolvers. It is now based on a round top frame with the rear sight merely a groove machined into the top of the frame, similar to the Vaquero model. The standard, fixed sight, Single Six no longer comes with a flat top frame with a dove-tailed rear sight. Otherwise the Super Single Six is externally similar to the Old Model guns. New Model Ruger SA revolvers only have two screws in the side of their frames. The New Model Ruger SA revolvers are probably the safest revolvers ever made, and they can be carried fully loaded with six cartridges. No more quarter-cock and half cock hammer positions, and no more necessity to leave the hammer down on an empty chamber. Opening the loading gate retracts the cylinder bolt, allowing the cylinder to turn for loading. The old coiled hammer spring remains, but the new trigger spring is a music wire spring in a sort of "U" shape. These revolvers incorporated a new transfer bar ignition system. Never-the-less, Bill Ruger redesigned his single action revolvers in 1973 in an attempt to make them "idiot proof." The result was the "New Model" Single Six, Blackhawk, and Super Blackhawk. Remember that since 1953 Ruger had been building the strongest and safest single action revolvers ever made! Rapacious tort lawyers sprang to the attack and by the beginning of the 1970's the successful Sturm, Ruger & Company suddenly found itself the target of unfair but expensive lawsuits. Naturally, these clowns refused to accept responsibility for their actions. A small percentage of these fools managed to accidentally injure themselves by improper loading and handling of Ruger SA revolvers. #Ruger old model single six serial number history manual#Idiots who refused to read the owner's manual and also ignored over 100 years of established firearms protocol purchased a few of these guns. Over the years Ruger sold a great many Single Six, Bearcat, Blackhawk, and Super Blackhawk SA revolvers. The Super also came with a ramp front sight. The standard Single Six had a fixed rear sight dovetailed into the frame, and the Super Single Six model came with the same fully adjustable rear sight as a Blackhawk. The hammer and trigger springs are coil springs, much easier to adjust and more durable than the flat springs used in earlier SA revolvers. The cylinder pin is retained by a simple, spring loaded cross pin. It would have two piece walnut grips and a 6 1/2 inch barrel. The one piece Western-style grip frame was made of aluminum alloy, as was the ejector rod housing. 22 Magnum/.22 LR convertible revolver built on a flat top frame roughly 7/8 the size of a Ruger Blackhawk. The typical 3-screw Single Six (so called because of the three screws in the side of the frame) was a blued steel. There is also a quarter-cock "semi-safe" hammer position. This means that they are loaded with the hammer in the half-cock notch and properly carried with the hammer down on an empty chamber. and the rest of the world for over 100 years. However, Old Model Rugers are traditional single action revolvers, as had been made and sold in the U.S. This was, and still is, perhaps the best single action revolver ever designed. They use music wire coil springs and their reliability has become legendary. The 3-screw (or "Old Model," as they later came to be called) Ruger Single Six revolvers are based on a very simple design. 22 Short/Long/Long Rifle in one cylinder and. Later, cylinders were added to allow "Convertible" Single Sixes that could shoot. 22 Long cartridges), the versatile Single Six has been adapted to fire the rimfire. Bill Ruger built his company on good design, modern manufacturing techniques and quality products at a fair price, and the Single Six epitomizes all of those virtues. The Single Six is a traditional looking Western style revolver, but with a modernized mechanism. By Chuck Hawks Illustration courtesy of Sturm, Ruger & Co., Inc.ΔΆ003 marked the 50-year anniversary of the introduction of the Ruger Single Six revolver, the most popular single action (SA). ![]()
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