Ruger Old Model Single Six Serial Number History

Anyone having a 5 1/2 in bl. Single-Six with only a.22 cylinder, needs to call Ruger to get a letter. You will find a lot of guns with only the.22 cylinder but most of them are missing the Mag. So far all Old Model Single-Sixes with 4 5/8 in. Will be a convertible. Looking at these two pages, it falls in between both of the serial histories. Ruger Super Single Six Serial Number History Ruger New Model Single Six Serial Number History (Had to remove links from post due to post count, but it's from the manuals page) I might have just not found the right model page I guess. Nov 23, 2011 - Ruger Single Six cylinder Handguns: The Revolver Forum. And speaking of Old Model 3 screw Single Sixes there's one big caveat about. Are stamped or engraved in the factory with the last three digits of the serial number. Manuals & Product History, they have a listing for their 'Old Model' Single Six. The allows the revolver to. I acquired a Ruger Single-Six Old Model convertible this past Saturday. The extra cylder is in its original red pouch but there was no box. Photoshop cs6 torrent crack. The serial number is 370xxx. This puts it into the 1963 time frame based on Ruger data for the SS Super OM. The Ruger Old Army is a black-powder percussion revolver introduced in 1972 by the Sturm, Ruger company. The revolver is unusual in that, unlike most percussion revolvers on the market, it was not based on a historical design, but was a modification of Ruger's Blackhawk model, which was itself based upon the cartridge-firing Colt Peacemaker.

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RUGEROLDMODELSINGLE-SIX “MAGNUM ONLY” REVOLVERS

PRODUCED1959 - 1962

GENERALOVERVIEW

The .22 Magnum cartridge was introduced by Winchester in 1959.Ruger introduced its Single-Six single action revolver in .22 “Magnum Only” around June of that same year.

The Magnum guns had 6-1/2 inch barrels, round loading gates, checkered black hard rubber grips, and no firing pin groove in the rear of the cylinder.They were roll-marked“RUGER SINGLE-SIX WIN. .22 RF MAG. CAL” in two lines on the left side of the cylinder frame.In early 1960 the Magnum Only guns were also made available with varnished walnut grip panels.

Ruger Old Model Single Six Serial Number History

These Magnum Only guns were put in a special serial number range of their own beginning with 300000 and ending at 340XXX.About March 1961 Ruger began to produce these Magnum Only marked guns with an extra .22 caliber cylinder.The extra cylinder, the .22 caliber in this case, had the last three digits of the gun’s serial number stamped on its front face, close to the cylinder base pin hole.The idea of producing these dual cylinder guns or a “convertible” came from customers requesting that Ruger retrofit their “Magnum Only” single-cylinder guns with a .22 caliber cylinder or their .22 caliber only single-cylinder guns with a Magnum cylinder.

The “Magnum Only” marked guns came in a black and red box with a yellow wreath on top like the standard Single-Six but designated with Cat. No.“RSSM” on the box end labeling.

The production of these “Magnum Only” Single-Sixes ended sometime in August – September 1962.The 6-1/2” barrel length soon was made available in the standard “Single-Six .22Caliber/.22 Magnum Convertible” model.The boxes for these 6-1/2 inch barrel convertibles continued to be marked with the catalog number “RSSM”, not RSS6, throughout the Old Model Single-Six production that ended in 1972.

There are several rare or scarce variations of these guns, some with only one or twoknown, that I will not attempt to cover here.If you are interested in learning more about these guns, I suggest you become a member of the Red Eagle News Exchange.The publisher of that newsletter has done extensive research and study and goes into considerable detail describing those and many other rare Ruger models and variations.

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Post subject:Three Screw Single Six Date of Manufacture?
Buckeye

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Last week I picked up a nice three screw Single Six, the version with adjustable sights. 5 1/2' barrel. I would like to determine when it was made. SN is 5421XX. According to the information on the Ruger website, SN 187367 was the first SN produced in 1962. The next data point is SN 20-00001 in 1969. Nothing in between. Does anybody have some slightly more detailed information about when my 'new' Single Six was made?
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Posted: Thu Nov 03, 2011 8:56 pm
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I think 'adjustable sights' = Super Single Six.
Super Single-Six Revolver
(Manufactured from 1964 to 1972)
Caliber: .22 LR
Beginning Serial Number: Years of Production:
500001 1964
502608 1965
517860 1966
528826 1967
547679 1968
566735 1969
60-13852 1970
60-52410 1971
60-81278 1972
http://www.ruger.com/service/productHistory.html#
http://www.rugerforum.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=73513


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Posted: Thu Nov 03, 2011 9:29 pm
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I thought Super meant it came with two cylinders. This one only has the 22LR cylinder, but I suppose a Mag cylinder may have existed at some time. Anyhow, it does have adjustable sights, and your information seems a bit more in the ball park.
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Posted: Thu Nov 03, 2011 9:33 pm
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2 cylinders = Convertible, I think

Absolutely correct. They have an X on the end of the catalog # to indicate 'Extra Cylinder'. Both Single Sixes and Super SSs came in convertible models.

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Posted: Fri Nov 04, 2011 1:34 am
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I thought Super meant it came with two cylinders. This one only has the 22LR cylinder, but I suppose a Mag cylinder may have existed at some time. Anyhow, it does have adjustable sights, and your information seems a bit more in the ball park.
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Hi Driftwood,
The Supers were in a separate serial number range. which are on a different page from the one that you looked at. I wouldn't mind finding one. Was it a good price?

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Posted: Fri Nov 04, 2011 2:48 pm
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The Super Single-Six Old Models had the following model numbers:
SC4
SC5
SC6
The 'S' ment Super. The 'C' meant convertible and the 4,5,6 meant 4 5/8 in. bl.,5 1/2 in. bl., 6 1/2 in. bl. All Super Single Sixes were Convertibles except for one or more of the Factory Plated guns that was sold to employees.


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Posted: Fri Nov 04, 2011 3:18 pm
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OMG. street, thanks for correcting me. My head was stuck in Single Six Model #s. I hate to pass on bad info!

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Posted: Sat Nov 05, 2011 1:44 pm
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The SC4's are SCARCE! Around 200 made and they were not cataloged.
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Posted: Sun Nov 06, 2011 12:59 am
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Thanks for getting me looking.
Makes my Old Model Single-Six 5 1/2' (20-218XX) a circa 1969 standard model covertable (although it only had the 22MAG cylinder with it when I bought it even though it's in mint condition).


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Posted: Sun Nov 06, 2011 10:02 pm
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Thanks for getting me looking.
Makes my Old Model Single-Six 5 1/2' (20-218XX) a circa 1969 standard model covertable (although it only had the 22MAG cylinder with it when I bought it even though it's in mint condition).

Some of those Old Model Single-Sixes with the 20 and 21 prefix with the 5 1/2 in. bl. were single cylinder guns. But they were .22 only. Not .22 Mag only. After Ruger started making the convertibles in late 1959 or 1960, not real sure of the date, almost all Single-Sixes were convertibles. They made a few 6 1/2 in. bl. guns in .22 Mag. only and they made a few 5 1/2 in bl. guns in .22 only. Anyone having a 5 1/2 in bl. Single-Six with only a .22 cylinder, needs to call Ruger to get a letter. You will find a lot of guns with only the .22 cylinder but most of them are missing the Mag. cylinder. So far all Old Model Single-Sixes with 4 5/8 in. bl. and 9 1/2 bl. will be a convertible.


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Posted: Mon Nov 07, 2011 11:16 pm
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The SC4's are SCARCE! Around 200 made and they were not cataloged.
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I've been offered a 'non cataloged' Security Six. Does someone mind telling me what that means. I have a guess but would like to make sure.
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Posted: Tue Nov 08, 2011 12:09 am
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The SC4's are SCARCE! Around 200 made and they were not cataloged.
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I've been offered a 'non cataloged' Security Six. Does someone mind telling me what that means. I have a guess but would like to make sure.
Thanks

Guns that got out the door in a configuration that ws not shown or listed in the catalog and usually in very small quantities. The SC4's mentioned by flatgate were 'non cataloged'. They turn into great collectibles.
What's the details on it, unusual barrel length?

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Posted: Tue Nov 08, 2011 5:27 am
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I've been offered a 'non cataloged' Security Six. Does someone mind telling me what that means. I have a guess but would like to make sure.
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Sure! It means a Double Action Ruger Revolver in such a configuration that it does NOT match anything shown in the catalogs. Now, is it a 'Ruger Made' configuration or was it done after it was shipped from the Factory?
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Posted: Tue Nov 08, 2011 10:39 am
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I've been offered a 'non cataloged' Security Six. Does someone mind telling me what that means. I have a guess but would like to make sure.
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Sure! It means a Double Action Ruger Revolver in such a configuration that it does NOT match anything shown in the catalogs. Now, is it a 'Ruger Made' configuration or was it done after it was shipped from the Factory?
flatgate

Thanks Flatgate. For you and Hondo44, please forgive me in saying at this time I have two questions for the gentleman that I am awaiting a return phone call on. Depending on his answers, I'm either buying it or passing. At that time, one way or the other I'll give details. All I really want to say at this time it is a 100% NIB factory made with either 5 or 6 known.
I apologize if I stole this thread, I just wanted to make sure my understanding of non cataloged was what you both kindly explained to me.

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