Ruger Single-Six Single-Ten Thread

[Coal Train]

I have been searching for a .22 revolver to sustain me through this wonderful economy but they have been hard to locate in my area. Local shop had this one used. It appears unfired. The previous owner was kind enough to sexy up the grips for me. They are a little more hand filling than factory grips which is appreciated. I would prefer the 5 1/4” barrel and a black rear sight but I’ll not complain. Shop threw in the holster for “free.”

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[awp_101]

Nice!

I can’t read the maker’s mark on the holster, who’s the maker?

[APS-PF]

Should be a fun gun to shoot! I have a 6 shot 22LR/22WMR convertible with the same barrel length. It's usually the gun I start new shooters on until I'm confident in their muzzle discipline.

[Coal Train]

Nice!

I can’t read the maker’s mark on the holster, who’s the maker?
It is a bit hard to read but it says “Jackson Leatherworks” around the edge. In the middle it says “Soli Deo Gloria”

[Coal Train]

It's usually the gun I start new shooters on until I'm confident in their muzzle discipline.
In addition to shooting for my own enjoyment, I also thought this would be an excellent “new shooter” gun.

[Bergeron]

My first handgun was a stainless Single-Six, a gift on turning 16. It was a faaarrr higher quality gun than I deserved, and it got stolen in my early 20s.

I just won a GB auction for a replacement, and it warms my cold heart to see others with these neato and nice guns.

[Bergeron]

Dear OP, your new gun is beautiful!

Would you like to see a thread on Single-Sixes begin in this forum, or would you prefer to see it comingle with the discussion of your new gun?

Are there any sorts of matches in your area that you could bring your pistol to shoot?

[Coal Train]

Dear OP, your new gun is beautiful!

Would you like to see a thread on Single-Sixes begin in this forum, or would you prefer to see it comingle with the discussion of your new gun?

Are there any sorts of matches in your area that you could bring your pistol to shoot?
Thank you!

I would welcome any discussion in this thread related to Single-Sixes.

There are probably matches in my area but since I have young kids this piece will be confined to farm plinking for the the foreseeable future.

[awp_101]

One of my favorites even though it doesn't see the range time it should. 1968 Super Single Six, came to me without the Magnum cylinder but with the stocks already carved.

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I waited too late to get on the Single 10 bandwagon. By the time I kind of thought I wanted one the prices had gone up and I've never looked to see what the going rate is nowadays.

[Totem Polar]

I would welcome any discussion in this thread related to Single-Sixes.


The gun I learned to shoot with, as a kid, given to me by my dad as a (thankfully) very early inheritance. A ‘56 flatgate:

[Bergeron]

I fear that it would be obnoxious for me to go actually like every post in this thread, so hopefully it's cool if I just admit to the feeling once here.

Your Single-Ten will certainly be living its best life as a farm gun! My family moved out onto some rural acreage the when I was in high school, and it was always ok to grab the pistol, head out the back door, walk and shoot. The local range put on a combined "action/bullseye" rimfire rifle-pistol shoot. My SS and Marlin Model 60 were hilariously goofy compared to the dudes who were showing up to win. As, uh, was my score ;)

[awp_101]

The local range put on a combined "action/bullseye" rimfire rifle-pistol shoot. My SS and Marlin Model 60 were hilariously goofy compared to the dudes who were showing up to win. As, uh, was my score ;)
Just having a good time while shooting is it's own form of winning in my humble (yet correct) opinion.

[kwb377]

I picked up a '96-vintage stainless Single Six a couple of months ago. Swapped the original grips for a set of checkered maple LS Grips.

I have no explanation as to why it took me this long to get one of these...


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[Bergeron]

Love the light grips over stainless.

I'm a 5.5" kind of guy, but it's all wonderful and there no wrong choices, and I'm always curious what long-barreled stuff is like.

Are there any consensus (hahaha-yeah right-i bet) around ammunition perferences? I'm so out of touch, I'm finally down to my last few bricks of AutoMatch from the Way Before Times, I don't know what the SS/9/10 preferences might be?

I love all the different ways that I've seen sights on these guns.

[okie john]

Are there any consensus (hahaha-yeah right-i bet) around ammunition perferences?

Every 22 is a law unto itself, amigo. Finding the best ammo is part of the journey.




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[Bergeron]

Yes sir! I assume that's also true in .22 WMR, but is it also true for the HMRs, and were there ever any MachII?

[Totem Polar]

Every 22 is a law unto itself, amigo. Finding the best ammo is part of the journey.




Okie John

So true.

That said, the journey often starts with CCI mini mag.

JMO.

[Coal Train]

Swapped the original grips for a set of checkered maple LS Grips.
Those grip really go with the stainless look. Nice piece!

[gato naranja]

I would prefer the 5 1/4” barrel and a black rear sight but I’ll not complain.

I wouldn't complain either.

We had a bunch of Single Sixes come and go back in the day, and most of them were 5-1/2" guns, because Ruger wasn't offering the 4-5/8" option in stainless... and my eyes worked just fine with the longer sight radius in those days. I tended towards stainless guns with rubber Pachmayr grips on them to make them feel like similarly-equipped Blackhawks.

If I were to take up the SA .22 today, I'd probably just get a blued Single Six Convertible in 4-5/8" because it would be easier to find than a blued 4-5/8" Lipsey's Single Ten.

[awp_101]

Yes sir! I assume that's also true in .22 WMR, but is it also true for the HMRs, and were there ever any MachII?
I didn’t realize/remember they did an HMR model. Totally useless for any realistic application I’d have but I do find it intriguing.

AFA a M2 version, I don’t think they did one but someone makes aftermarket cylinders for the Single series so one might be available. Not sure if there’s a difference in bore sizes like the LR/WMR but there probably is. I’ll have to dig through my links tonight and find the maker.



If I were to take up the SA .22 today, I'd probably just get a blued Single Six Convertible in 4-5/8" because it would be easier to find than a blued 4-5/8" Lipsey's Single Ten.
Wow, a quick GB search turned up just a single S10 and it looks like a 5.5”. Might be worth picking up the barrel length you want in a S6 and adding the aftermarket cylinder I mentioned. I’m 95% sure he offers/offered them as a 10 shot.

[awp_101]

AFA a M2 version, I don’t think they did one but someone makes aftermarket cylinders for the Single series so one might be available. Not sure if there’s a difference in bore sizes like the LR/WMR but there probably is. I’ll have to dig through my links tonight and find the maker.

Found it: Borchardt Rifle Company (http://rugercyl.com/ruger-cylinders/)

http://rugercyl.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Cylinders4.jpg


6 Shot, 22 LR, $100
8 Shot, 22 LR, $120
10 Shot, 22 LR, $139.95
6 Shot, 22 Mag, $100
8 Shot, 22 Mag, $120
6 Shot, 17 Cal. HM2, $100
8 Shot, 17 Cal. HM2, $120
8 Shot, 17 Cal. HMR, $120

[LtDave]

So true.

That said, the journey often starts with CCI mini mag.

JMO.

The first three loads I try in a new .22 are CCI Mini-mag, CCI standard velocity and Aguila Super Extra HV. Rare to find a gun that won’t shoot one of those with acceptable accuracy. If you want to invest in match ammo, I’d start with Wolf Match Target or Aguila Match Rifle, both of which are reasonably priced for match grade stuff.

[awp_101]

BTW, you enablers get to keep your cards from the Enablers Union for another month. I spent part of each evening Fri-Sun stalking GB and GI for interesting Single Sixes and am now watching about 18 between the 2 venues. They range from the mid-50s to the 90s, from 4 5/8” to 9 1/2”, single and dual cylinders plus LR and WMR only.

I didn’t fall off the wagon, I bloody well catapulted myself off.

[oregon45]

A few years back Ruger made a very limited run of non-convertible Bisley Single Sixes with 5.5" barrels. I picked one up as an understudy to my .45 Colt Bisley; 40gr Mini-Mags don't sting as much as 310gr magnum-level .45 Colt loads :D

One thing a single-action .22 will teach you that few others firearms will is the importance of follow-through. You can have the world's greatest trigger press but if you don't maintain sight alignment through the hammer-fall it doesn't matter.

https://i.imgur.com/MdVOljF.jpg?2

[gato naranja]

BTW, you enablers get to keep your cards from the Enablers Union for another month. I spent part of each evening Fri-Sun stalking GB and GI for interesting Single Sixes and am now watching about 18 between the 2 venues. They range from the mid-50s to the 90s, from 4 5/8” to 9 1/2”, single and dual cylinders plus LR and WMR only.

I didn’t fall off the wagon, I bloody well catapulted myself off.

My $0.02 on the breed (generalities... YMMV):

The .22 WMR rounds will be slightly more accurate than .22LR, as well as louder and a lot more expensive.

The longer the barrel, the more using .22 WMR makes sense.

The sixguns generate fewer complaints WRT timing and general operational issues than the ten-rounders.

Smooth factory wooden grips can be oddly slippery under some circumstances.

That is it off the top of my head. I had a love/hate relationship with the Single line for many years, and still get a pang for one now and then.

[awp_101]

Agreed on the WMR. Not really sure why I want a scoped “pocket rifle” but I figure it’s like my interest in dedicated target revolvers and 1911s. I don’t really have a “need” but I admire the concept and find them cool.

Didn’t know that about the 10 shot timing but it makes sense.

[oregon45]

Having had a few 22 WMR Single Sixes, including one with a 9.5" barrel, I prefer 32 H&R handloaded down out of a 7.5" .327 Single Seven. Less muzzle blast and better accuracy, in my experience, and no concerns about ammunition variability/availability, which have both been issues for me with 22 WMR. Here's my current 32 H&R Magnum Single Six, a Bisley from a run Ruger made a few years ago. I call it my "Star Trek" Single-Six because the light-colored wood in the laminate grips looks like the Federation symbol from Star Trek: The Next Generation.

https://i.imgur.com/O7A92KJ.jpg?1

[gato naranja]

Didn’t know that about the 10 shot timing but it makes sense.

I don't think it is a widespread issue by any means.

That said, I do wonder why - historically - about all anyone tried to cram into a .22 revolver was eight or nine rounds? In my H&R and IJ using days, I thought nine or even eight shots before reloading was luxury plinking, and ten would have been serendipity.

[awp_101]

Good point on availability, hadn’t really considered it. AFA variability I’ve got one of Paco Kelly’s Accu’rizr tools and was thinking about bore size variation rather than actual load variations.

[awp_101]

I don't think it is a widespread issue by any means.

That said, I do wonder why - historically - about all anyone tried to cram into a .22 revolver was eight or nine rounds? In my H&R and IJ using days, I thought nine or even eight shots before reloading was luxury plinking, and ten would have been serendipity.

I think there’s potential any time a design deviates from the established 5 or 6 rounds. I had an early Single Seven and it had a timing issue right out of the box.

[awp_101]

I just took a quick look for some .327 and .32 Mag Rugers. The prices are…eye watering….

[Bergeron]

And that hurts to hear! I keep staying curious about .32 performance, but the ammo cost...

May I share my new shiny Single?

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It appeases in first glance that the sub-frame is steel and that the ejector rod is aluminum. My first time ever holding a Bisley, and while it is different than the SAA-ish pattern of my first one, I enjoy it enough that I’m now more ambivalent about a No. 5 shape- I waver back and forth now.

I was curious to experience a fixed sight Bisley 6-shot in blued. That it has this very “of its time” topstrap.

It might take me some time to figure out if my pinky belongs on or under the frame. I’m down to only a few thousand rounds- I will crush them before I even think about touching this with a gunsmith. I am thinking, however, that some black-ebony grips with the red Ruger medallion might add gravitas.

Has anyone ever tried to work some creative engraving over that barrel stamping, like some tattoo cover-up artist?

[Dave T]

My very first gun, purchased with my own money while I was an out of state student in Colorado (CSU). Seventeen years old I went into a local hardware store and bought a Super Single-Six, 5.5". It was in 1967 (pre-GCA '68) and I kept it in my dorm room until I could get a ride out to the mountains or prairie to go shooting. It stayed with my mother after I joined the army later that year. Back from Vietnam and a civilian again I had a case of Magnum-itis and soon ended up with a 357 Blackhawk, a 44 Blackhawk, and a reloading set up, paid for with money I'd saved while in Nam. A couple years later I traded off the Super S-S because I hadn't shot it in those intervening years.

I was never bitten by the 22 bug again, even after I bought 22 Conversion kits for my Government Model 45 and later one for my Commander, lured by the idea of cheep practice. Never shot either one more than enough to know they worked. Only the Commander version remains and I kept it because the old Commander cracked its alloy frame in three places. All it's good for now is as a 22. Still haven't shot it since I got it. Obviously YMMV!

Dave

[awp_101]

And that hurts to hear! I keep staying curious about .32 performance, but the ammo cost...
I’ve been down the .32/.327 road multiple times and they’re fun until the new wears off AKA it’s time to buy more ammunition. If I reloaded or was a serious small game hunter I could see them as a great step between .22 and .38 wadcutters.


Has anyone ever tried to work some creative engraving over that barrel stamping, like some tattoo cover-up artist?

I haven’t seen or heard of it with engraving but a couple of guys have removed the warning with careful filing and sanding. I believe they were on stainless which meant blending instead of refinishing but I’m sure one of the custom ‘smiths is more than willing to remove it and refinish.

[03RN]

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I've carried this guy for a few miles.

I don't think I've shot it for 5-6 years though.

[Coal Train]

I was able to put some rounds through the Single 10 on Sunday. I was impressed with the accuracy and the trigger. My only minor niggle is that cocking the hammer isn’t SAA smooth.

Great fun overall.

Anyone have a suggestion for an all black rear adjustable sight that will work with the factory fiber optic front sight?

[Coal Train]

Bumping this back up for some input.......anyone have a suggestion for an all black rear adjustable sight that will work with the factory fiber optic front sight?

I like the fiber front but my Single 10 also has a fiber on the rear sight and it is....distracting.