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I cannot see any damage because there is so much soot in the photo. Kind of curious how all that soot got there, 22s should not be letting that much gunk get back beyond the case head.
I don't particularly brag about it, but I have a couple of Three Screw Single Sixes with 22 Mag cylinders and I have never used the Mag cylinders. This one even came with a couple of boxes of 22 Mags as well as a box of regular 22 LR. I'm pretty sure I have never fired any of the Mags in it (don't really remember for sure). Just not interested in shooting 22 Mags, 22LR is plenty of fun for me.
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Regarding the Wrangler, I got a chance to fire a cylinder full a month ago or so. Clearly not enough for a detailed review, but I liked it for what it was. Just looked up the spec sheet at Ruger and I was surprised to see the frame is aluminum. Just put a magnet to the frame of one of my Single Sixes, no surprise the frame is steel. Hmmmm.....I wonder if an aluminum frame is part of the reason the Wrangler is so cheap. I'll bet it is less labor intensive to pour molten aluminum into a steel mold than it is to make a steel frame with Investment Casting. It has to be more labor intensive to built up the molds for the Investment Casting process and then melt all the wax out, then brush away the sand. Hmmmmm.
I would be very surprised if any of the parts for the Wrangler interchange with anything else, particularly the New Vaquero. The frame of a Single Six (not the grip frame, the cylinder frame) is smaller than a New Vaquero. I suspect the same of the Wrangler.
Anyway, it was fun to shoot one, but I have no desire to run out and buy one, my Single Sixes are plenty of fun.
However I am very temped to buy one of the new MARK IV Semi-Auto 22s. Anybody who has ever taken the old ones apart will really appreciate how much simpler take down would be with the newest model. I am real interested.