The name “Single Six” was chosen, and the resulting new gun accelerated the expansion of the Ruger firm. The nickname of the SAA was the “Peacemaker,” and it was realized that name was pretty much off limits. Thus, Ruger had a green light to begin development of a similar revolver. 22 revolver with his patent attorneys, and they agreed that Colt no longer had patent rights on their classic single action. Ruger broached the subject of a Colt look-alike.
Bill Ruger, president and CEO of the fledgling Sturm, Ruger & Company, saw this as an opportunity to step in and provide folks with the ability to purchase a Single Action Army look-alike revolver at a great price, and it could be chambered for the economical. The machinery to make it had been dismantled and scrapped as Colt’s attended to the manufacture of other guns during WWII. But strangely, in 1947, Colt’s Patent Firearms Manufacturing Company announced that it would not be resuming manufacture of its classic Single Action Army revolver. The public loved those cowboy sagas, and they loved those old cowboy guns. In nearly all of these movies, and in similar portrayals on TV, the heroes wielded Colt single action revolvers. Hope you enjoy it.īack in the late 1940s the United States, freshly recovered from World War Two, had a renewed and apparently insatiable love affair with the “old West.” The movies featured “westerns” with John Wayne, Gary Cooper, Roy Rogers, William Boyd, Gene Autry and many others in roles that glorified the days of the western frontier. This is an advance peek at a future article on this historic revolver. Ruger reintroduced this caliber option in 2002, 8 and in September 2014 released the Single-Seven in.327 Federal Magnum as well, in a seven-shot stainless steel variant, with barrel lengths of 4.63, 5.5. From 1984 to 1997 Ruger chambered the New Model Single-Six in.32 H&R Magnum (which allows the use of.32 S&W and.32 S&W Long cartridges). The serial number on my gun has a letter in front of the number and I'm not seeing anything like that on the Ruger Website. I have been trying to date it with the serial number on the Ruger Website but I'm having a problem.
I bought a nice Old Model Single-Six today to have some fun with. Colt had discontinued the iconic Single Action Army prior to World War II, and few single-action revolvers were available to meet market demand for cowboy-style revolvers.In 1953, the new firm of Sturm, Ruger & Company introduced the Single-Six, a.22 LR rimfire single-action revolver. In the early 1950s, Westerns were popular in movies and television. The last year of production for the SSS was 1972 starting with SN# 60-81278. According to the chart Ruger Super Single Six Serial Number History Yours is a Super Single Six made in 1970.
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