You probably noticed the custom walnut grips on this vintage Ruger. A bit of 0000 steel wool and oil took the rust off and the gun is in remarkable condition.ĭon’t forget to take care of us: Please click on the popup ads! Storing any gun in a holster is not a good idea (the leather retains moisture) and it had a light coating of surface rust in a few spots when Dad passed. That’s cool.ĭad kept the Single-Six loaded in a drawer near his bed. Ruger introduced the Single-Six in 1953 and they only made 49 of these revolvers that year, so mine is a first year of production revolver. This revolver’s 4-digit, no-prefix serial number puts its date of manufacture at 1954, which means it is just a little bit younger than me. The Ruger Single-Six you see here was my Dad’s gun.
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