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[JAYDAWG]

A few of my more colorful Type 1 Single Sixes.
Cheers,
JAYDAWG

 

[contender]

Love the various "colors" early guns can exhibit.

Refresh my memory,, do you seek the Type 1 Flatgates,, or the Type 1 Round gates. I'm thinking the Flatgates.

I found a Type 1 Round Gate today.

 

[rugerguy]

nice looking versions , and are the result of the "batch" made up for the casting and the mix was NOT stirred/mixed enough, too much of one type of metal in the 4140 chrome -moly "batch" being too close to the surface and will NOT take a blue, will not darken, and thus cause the lightning like streaks in the surface metal (casting) most gun makers frown on this happening as it is a "defect" and folks like Winchester collectors hate it but some of us Ruger collectors just gotta love them "defects" ( did NOT like to see "plum" when we owned the bluing company back in the 70s, those parts went back in the tank, again, a defect in the bluing process most of the time, but NOT in the case of the Ruger castings of various parts, it was the "mix" of the metals ingredients............blue it , it will turn red again down the road,,,ultraviolet light can speed it up........Winchester chrome steel parts ( ala barrels) turn up the temp at the end of a bluing bath run (cycle), and re run it a couple of times and the chrome barrels would turn blue, and stay blue...........

 

[JAYDAWG]

Love the various "colors" early guns can exhibit.

Refresh my memory,, do you seek the Type 1 Flatgates,, or the Type 1 Round gates. I'm thinking the Flatgates.

I found a Type 1 Round Gate today.

There were no type one's (serial #1 to 20XX) shipped with a round gate. The round gate did not ship until about 61,000 serial number.
BUT, there was dislike of the flat gate and Premier Weapons Company made a round gate, and many folks replaced the flat gate with a Premier.
I collect any type 1, regardless of weather or not they were modified outside the factory.
Please PM me if the one you found is for sale.

JaydaWg

 

[contender]

Actually,, if you look in the RENE Guide,, there is a "Type 1 Round Gate" which follows the "Type 3 FlatGate" models. Serial number range of 58895 to 117805.

The one I found today was a Type 1 Round Gate.

 

[JAYDAWG]

Correct.
I misunderstood your post.
In my little brain, there is only one type 1, a flat gate..............

 

[contender]

I kinda figured all that.

And I actually understand how you feel.

And I only own (1) Type 1 Flatgate.

 

[JAYDAWG]

A few more........

 

[contender]

I'm glad I'm not color blind as I'd miss the appreciation of these sweethearts!

 

[JAYDAWG]

A few more...............

 

[JAYDAWG]

A few more....

 

[Threespears]

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