No prices like that around here. Well done!
Found A Clean Single Six
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bigbillyboy
Buckeye
Awesome !
GasGuzzler
Hunter
Let's see the label on the box. Does the box have the serial or partial serial number of the gun on it too?
Absolutely beautiful, what a find. Good for you.
Did you also buy a lottery ticket right after buying that fine Single-six?
Star43
Blackhawk
That probably would have been a good idea ...
Boxhead
Blackhawk
The box does have the last 5 numbers of the SN in pencil. It will not see a magnum cylinder as that base is covered with a "magnum only" version.
Friedrich24
Bearcat
She's a beauty - love my old SS!
Shamus2022
Single-Sixer
I'm assuming it came home with you!!!!!!! Great price on a really good .22 LR. It was made before the change to a larger bore diameter, and will be very accurate.
And when was the switch to a larger bore for the Single-Six?
And when was the switch to a larger bore for the Single-Six?
contender
Ruger Guru
"And when was the switch to a larger bore for the Single-Six?"
Ruger started using the same barrel stock for both the Single-Six & the Magnums at serial number 150000. Any guns with a number higher than that,, has the larger bore.
Ruger started using the same barrel stock for both the Single-Six & the Magnums at serial number 150000. Any guns with a number higher than that,, has the larger bore.
Hondo44
Hawkeye
I'm pretty sure the full serial number is on the box, the top half of the 1 is still showing. The 4 5/8" barrel is extremely rare that early in production which is the "Type 2 round loading gate"; 5000 made. These are the 1st 4 5/8" steel frame Single Sixes made! The boxes for your serial number range do not have the RSS4 model number yet, so your box is correct. Your gun was made in 1959 and should have the serial number scratched or stamped on the grip frame under the grip panel.
Congratulations on a very excellent find in such good condition and a bargain price!!!!
Congratulations on a very excellent find in such good condition and a bargain price!!!!
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Hondo44
Hawkeye
Very cool, another early one. Yours is also early enough to possibly have the serial number on the grip frame. Have you looked for it?
Boxhead
Blackhawk
There is not the serial number on the grip frame.
Hondo44
Hawkeye
Some where under the grips?
Hondo44
Hawkeye
Okay thx. My Reference for Ruger Firearms says they didn't do it long: and like all Ruger's changes it wasn't continuous within a serial number range.
Hondo44
Hawkeye
The reason is Ruger could get 5 1/2" barrels out of a 12' length (IlRC) of barrel stock with less waste.Awesome find! I've always wondered why Ruger didn't produce more in that barrel length? Seems like to me, that they surely would have sold well...
This is a later gun, late enough to be a convertible, but shows the rare RSS4 box:
That was an early enough convertible that they had not yet printed up the second cylinder boxes, so they just used a corrugated wrap closed with cellophane tape (which dried out and gave up decades ago):
That was an early enough convertible that they had not yet printed up the second cylinder boxes, so they just used a corrugated wrap closed with cellophane tape (which dried out and gave up decades ago):
