Single Six and Wrangler hammer springs

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Yaworski

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I have a 30+ year old Single-Six and a two year old Wrangler. I noticed that it takes more effort to cock the Wrangler than the Single-Six

Looking at the hammer springs, the Single-Six's has more coils and is made of thinner wire.

Is this the normal Single-Six hammer spring? Any thoughts on why there'd be a difference? Any thoughts if the Single-Six spring would work in the Wrangler?
 

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I don't have a new model RSS, but here is a pic of one of my flat gates. Looks similar......
Going back to my motorcycle suspension days, the more coils, the softer the ride, in this case the pull.

I upgraded my Wranglers with the Wolffe spring shooter pak # 17116.
What a HUGE difference it made in the action and shootability of these guns.
For $13.50 I would highly recommend these for anyone with a Wrangler.

Cheers,

JAYDAWG
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Although not identical, they both use the "same" grip frame (geometry) therefore I would say the mainspring from a SS would work in the Wrangler. You can get an assortment of Wolff mainsprings for a Single Six or even full spring kits.

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I upgraded my Wranglers with the Wolffe spring shooter pak # 17116. What a HUGE difference it made in the action and shootability of these guns. For $13.50 I would highly recommend these for anyone with a Wrangler.

For those interested, that kit has Wolff's lightest trigger spring (30 oz) and their lightest hammer spring (17 lbs) plus an extra power base pin latch spring. As long as it's not too light (light strikes or dangerous trigger), it's what I would pick too. I used some of the same springs on my Blackhawk years ago.
 
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I'm betting the Wrangler is harder to cock because the spring is stiffer because the hammer is lighter due to the cutouts in the casting. Lighter hammer needs more speed for reliable ignition. Also I learned a long time ago you want a snappy action on a Blackhawk or any single action. Soft springs make for a slow enough lock time to affect accuracy. In a double action the mainspring needs to be smooth when you shoot double action. Who cares in a single action? Since you cock the gun before you pull the trigger you might as well just have a smooth trigger with a fast lock time.
 
Like others have said about the Wolff spring kits. I just put such spring kits in my regular and Super Wrangler. What a huge difference it made. I put a 17# hammer and 30oz trigger spring in my regular Wrangler, and a 19# hammer spring and 30oz trigger spring set in the Super Wrangler.

There's no comparison in how much easier one can now cock the hammer and gaining a smoother trigger pull.

Both Wrangler's now have a consistent trigger pull of 1-3/4#s on (4) pulls each pistol using my Wheeler trigger gauge. There was absolutely no +/- in weight variation of each pull. I consider that a success.

One thing I also did while having out the hammer struts when changing the springs, I used a flat jeweler file and removed some burrs and roughness of the strut's ball that goes into the hammer's strut slot. Then also backed that up putting together with some Slip2000 EWG (extreme weapons grease) to keep things sliding smoothly.
 
"I did not know that and I still find it interesting that they marked the product."

Well, that's why we enjoy this Forum! We get to help others learn about Rugers! Obviously you've never had the grips off most of the Ruger SA grip frames. The subtle changes made to them over the years made marking them a necessity. If you really want to learn about them,, there's a complete article,, written by Bill Hamm, originally posted on "GunBlast" and is quite informative! I think there's even a link on this Forum to that article.
 
"I did not know that and I still find it interesting that they marked the product."

Often OEMs don't mark their products with their name. Spark plugs for my car are made by Bosch but don't say Bosch on them.
 
And of course if one chooses to change out springs, the very last thing they should do before attaching the grips back on is to make sure you use a grip spacer to help save those grips from cracking because of over tightening !! 🙂
 
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