If you're worried about peening the cylinder when dry-firing a Single Six, just remove the cylinder, replace the base-pin, and dry-fire the gun without the cylinder in place.
If you're worried about peening the cylinder when dry-firing a Single Six, just remove the cylinder, replace the base-pin, and dry-fire the gun without the cylinder in place.
If it's just for funsies and you don't care what ammunition costs then the .45 Colt is worth consideration. Personally, I find it a fun cartridge to shoot and there's a wide variety of power (and smoke) levels available. Shooting 9mm through a cowboy-ish revolver strikes me as something only a communist infiltrator would do. It's just...wrong....comrade. Some unholy union of new modern efficiency ruining the character of an obsolete, but romantic, launcher. .45 Colt is American and with a bit of smoke can even approach high levels of 'murcan. The .38/.357 is a reasonable compromise if you just aren't ready for the levels of 'murcan that a .45 Colt in a single action represents.Originally Posted by talos
Sorta around sometimes for some of your shitty mod needs.
Ruger SAs have to meet my 3-4-5 rule:
3 screws in the frame
4 clicks of the hammer
5 beans in the wheel
Put more simply that’s pre-1973 before the transfer bar, aka Old Model.
My first CF handgun was this .357/9mm convertible, and new models have just never done it for me.
In 45 years, the 9mm cylinder has never been fired.
I have a "Bicentennial" convertible Blackhawk. I had it for over 40 year before I cleaned out the factory grease and shot it. I can see the utility of it, but somewhere, Elmer Keith is crying.Ruger SAs have to meet my 3-4-5 rule:
3 screws in the frame
4 clicks of the hammer
5 beans in the wheel
Put more simply that’s pre-1973 before the transfer bar, aka Old Model.
My first CF handgun was this .357/9mm convertible, and new models have just never done it for me.
In 45 years, the 9mm cylinder has never been fired.
If we have to march off into the next world, let us walk there on the bodies of our enemies.
For a first Single Action, unless you're planning to hunt with it, you should get a SAA clone, not a Ruger. Rugers are in fact SA, and revolvers, but that's where the similarities end.
If you want to hunt (need adjustable sights) and/or shoot suicide handloads out of it, Ruger all day, every day.
I've had Uberti, Cimarrons, and some other off brands. Except for one, they were all 45 Colt (the outlier was a 44-40). Pleasant to shoot with cowboy loads (black powder or smokeless), and I never shot enough rounds through any of them to experience any failures.
Like this one:
https://vizardsgunsandammo.com/rug-0...ley-22-6-5-ss/
And someone please tell me why I shouldn't buy one myself.
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Not another dime.
I started on traditional type SAs without transfer bars as a kid and shot scads of rounds through them, then when the new style Rugers came out traded into one. It doesnt bother me either way to operate them, but for people unfamiliar with them and not really interested in spending much time to take operation of them to an unconscious competent level, the new type with transfer bars are simpler and probably safer. If cocking and pulling the trigger to load and unload or check a revolver makes you nervous, you may not like a traditional type SA without transfer bar. With the Rugers, you just open the loading gate and the cylinder is then free to turn. The traditional type, you then have to cock to half cock, check for clear or load, then cock hammer back then pull trigger to put it down. The safely is a hammer notch (first click above fully down) with only moderate level of security, and not drop safe. They are generally carried with an empty chamber under the hammer. There are methods of loading to get the hammer on that empty chamber, but it involves counting clicks of the cylinder while turning it and still cocking a loaded revolver and pulling the trigger to let the hammer down. One can make whatever comments about "if done right they are plenty safe....." but thats how they function. People screw it up sometimes. Seeing people not truly familiar with them (at an unconscious competence level) handling and operating them makes me nervous. That includes some that shoot competition in cowboy action shooting and only have a seeming casual level of familiarity. YMMV. Id be fine carrying one daily for whatever possible uses, but I dont think most people would be well served by traditional style SAs unless they have a great desire to get above average level good with them.
Much talk of dry fire. Dry firing Rugers with transfer bars can break the transfer bar. Ive broken 3 in 2 different guns. I asked a gunsmith if hed ever seen it, he said hed replaced several. The cowboy action guys are quite familiar with it. If its a range gun, no problem. Mine arent only range guns, i stopped dry fire in Ruger SAs for the most part unless with snap caps. Despite internet rumors, there are no bombproof firearms. Ruger SAs are pretty simple machines, but the transfer bar is the weak link. There are ways that are reported to tune or fit them so they wont break, but I find it relatively simple to just not dry fire them without snap caps. If I bought a used Ruger and planned to carry it, id install a new transfer bar and throw the old one away.
Last edited by Malamute; 08-31-2019 at 10:42 AM.
One thing I picked up in one of the other threads is the stainless guns have a pinned front sight, that right there makes all the difference for me. Stainless 9mm/357 4-5/8 would be my recommendation if I were choosing for you. Maybe the 9mm is goofy, but you could shoot a thousand rounds and decide for yourself.
Last edited by mmc45414; 08-31-2019 at 10:42 AM.
Weren’t you asking for encouragement to sell some guns just the other day[emoji848]
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