Single Six # 22
Single Six # 22
This revolver was on a trade table last weekend at the Tulsa Gun Show. Serial number 22 appeared on the cover of the 1954 edition of THE COMPLETE BOOK of GUNS by Larry Koller. Watch for an in-depth article on this gun in your upcoming ROCS Winter Report.
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gunman42782
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Re: Single Six # 22
Are we to assume that you were able to purchase this little piece of history?
O M CRAZY
O M CRAZY
Re: Single Six # 22
Not me, but a ROCS founding member.
Re: Single Six # 22
That's a great RSS, 22 #22, hard to beat that one!!
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Re: Single Six # 22
I know that most of us know this but when everyone shows their collections at a show many people assume that we've got it all figured out and rounded up. You would think this to be true since we only have 70 years' worth of guns to deal with. This gun just goes to show all the up and coming collectors that everything is not hoarded up and that there are still treasures to be found and documented. It's going to take diligence, education, and time but anyone can still get in the Ruger game.
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Re: Single Six # 22
wow, NICE gun and has the real 'early ' ivory grips with the first, early medallion location,,,yes , some of this stuff is indeed ot there but it takes someone letting go of these early guns that have been in "old" collections for way ,way long time........still MOST of these early guns, will never be able to be gotten by the "everyday" Ruger collector.. 
Re: Single Six # 22
Rugerguy, I have never seen or heard of ivory grips that had the medallions in this location. Can you provide more information as to why you believe they are (early) original Ruger ivory grips.
Thanks,
O M CRAZY
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O M CRAZY
Re: Single Six # 22
well having had and seen some many years ago ( at the Monroeville ,PA show for one)
and in conversations with Jeff Munnel, Walt Howe, Jack Behn and Mike Splitzgerber the first ones were in the SAME location as the wood grips were, later they moved they further out and up for the stag grips to allow for the thinning of the material ( the downward slope towards the cylinder frame) so they could thin them enough to be able to "stake" the medallion stems, later on this measurement usually fell in the 1 /2 inch down and back to the center of the medallion hole...remember the ivory , and pearl grips, the material was always thinner, the stags not so....back in the real early days of the old Colt Single action army guns the grip makers even made the stags one panel thicker depending if you were right or left handed, they called that ""palm swell" we learned this back in the mid, late 50s........... 
here is one old picture we found............
and in conversations with Jeff Munnel, Walt Howe, Jack Behn and Mike Splitzgerber the first ones were in the SAME location as the wood grips were, later they moved they further out and up for the stag grips to allow for the thinning of the material ( the downward slope towards the cylinder frame) so they could thin them enough to be able to "stake" the medallion stems, later on this measurement usually fell in the 1 /2 inch down and back to the center of the medallion hole...remember the ivory , and pearl grips, the material was always thinner, the stags not so....back in the real early days of the old Colt Single action army guns the grip makers even made the stags one panel thicker depending if you were right or left handed, they called that ""palm swell" we learned this back in the mid, late 50s...........
here is one old picture we found............