Lightweight Single Six

[south_ridge]

All,

One of the gun shops I frequent has a few new items listed on their website. One of them is a Lightweight Single Six - one of the later ones with a steel cylinder.

So...

For those of you that have one, how do you like them?
How much lighter is one of these than a 'standard' old model Single Six?
Any advice (other than 'buy it' )?

Thanks,

SR

 

[what would you say]

The lightest one, the Tri-color, was 23 oz and the standard 5-1/2 weighed 35 oz so somewhere in between was the other lightweight variations. Yeah... Probably should pick up any 4 leaf clovers you come across.

 

[contender]

If the gun is already used enough to place it in the category of "shooter" then look at the price & buy accordingly. Most of us prefer to collect & not shoot any of our Lightweights due to the rarity & values. The occasional shooting of a used one isn't going to hurt the values, but abuse of one will.

 

[what would you say]

As an example of Contender's point of shooter versus abuse.. I bought a Tri-Color at a gun show for a good price without a thorough inspection because I was enthralled with finding the gun at a shooter price. Once cleaned, ( It was purposely left dirty enough that it hid the obvious damage at first glance) .. I soon noticed that the inside back of the frame was battered really badly with ratchet marks from the back of the cylinder pounding into it and area around the firing pin damaged.. Figured someone shot really hot ammo and the aluminum frame just couldn't handle it. I was able to recover my money as the gun is valuable in parts, But as a gun for my collection, it's not normal shooter wear and that severely hurts the value. I like guns that I can shoot, but like stated, most of us collectors want those to remain in as good as condition as possible. A lightly used current model Six is just too inexpensive not to have most of the fun with it instead. The collector shooters are for showing off on the special occasions.