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My rarest Single Six. RSS4X. Serial number 173922. One of 800. RENE. No one knows for sure how the gun came to have these sights on it. I've included some of the communication between a "Red Barn" Ruger employee named Ken and Dick Hoffman who said he purchased the gun NIB in a Sporting Goods Store. When they opened up the shipper in 1961 and took the lid off the box, the micro sights were on the gun. This is strictly unofficial information and can't be proven by Ruger records. Mr. Hoffman wrote Ken, the Ruger worker, and asked if he remembered putting micro sights on a RSS. He said he couldn't but if it was NIB in shipper then it had to come from the factory. He did remember lots of micro sights. Dick then wrote Jeff Munnell in 1982 to ask what his opinion was and Mr Munnell said they would not letter from Ruger but he had heard that a few did leave the factory with the micro sights but that is all oral traditon. Mr Munnell offered a good price for the gun at that time. I called Jeff Munnell and he remembered the gun and said it was a good gun, regardless of the sights, because of the rarity of the gun. Needless to say I sure was glad to obtain this gun by way of Allen A Daniels Jr, a fine Ruger collector.
JMHO, when Mr Dougan put that microed flatgate RSS in his book in the 1980's it confused a lot of people and research may not have been followed up so well. I almost bought that gun but I heard it went to California.
Hope my long dissertation has not bored you but y'all know I only collect microed RSS's. :wink: