I lost the battle

OK, here is the picture. This gun appears to have been shot very little and only with the magnum cylinder. There was just a little firing residue on the front of the cylinder and it brushed right off using a very fine stainless brush. The 22 cylinder appear to have never been used at all. Other than three tiny little marks on the bottom of the trigger guard the gun looks new. It's wearing it 22 LR cylinder now as I have plenty of 22 LR. My supply of 22 mag is rather limited.



I'll make this a twofer and show a picture of the gun's grandpa. I forget the year I purchased this gun but I think in early '62, well before the 22WMR came on the market. I have no idea of it's round count or the miles I've carried it but both are best described as "a lot". Many prairiedogs and jackrabbits were harvested with it also. The grips are not original. These came off a stainless Blackhawk and have been refinished.



When the 22 WMR came on the scene and Ruger quickly offered a single six in that chambering I bought one. It was a huge disappointment as the 22 LR was much more efficient on varmints than it was and I gave up and sold it. It turned out to be the fact that the first 22 mag ammo had too heavy jackets and didn't expand at all according to the gunriters of that era and was no fault of the gun. I wish now I had kept it. When the dual cylinder model became available there was a lot of grumbling from the gunriters that it wasn't as accurate as the old model in 22 LR only and I ignored them. I will to find out for myself now.

My enabler wife and I will celebrate our 62nd wedding anniversary in mid-February. We said till death do us part and meant it. Nothing over the years has ever come close to making us change our minds. I'll confess to being an enabler to her also. A quilting hobby is just as expensive as is guns.

Thanks, Pat. We are looking forward to the next year of wedded bliss.

Hobby Lobby is a 45 mile round trip and she seems to want to go there about 3 times a week. Then when she gets there she always buys about three times as much as what she went for. At least her three, count them, three sewing machines haven't required any repairs for several years. She sends the quilts out to have the backing and batting machine sewed and has seven or eight of them stacked and ready to go to the lady that does that for her. Nothing, absolutely nothing, is cheap about quilting.

I don't grumble about it and she does the same with my ammo, accessories, new gun purchases, etc. We know how to stay within our budget and never, ever, buy anything we can't pay for when the CC card statement shows up.

JCooperfan1911 said:

Back in my day the Single Sixes shot better before the change to the .22 magnum bore.

Nowadays the Single Six is made with a larger bore diameter so it can fire .22 magnums, at a detriment to accuracy with .22 Longs.

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That is what I was referring to in my post about gunriters complaining about the loss of accuracy in the dual cylinder guns and why I never bought one until now. The weather will get better and then I will compare the two guns from a good rest. It's been my experience with some centerfire pistols that have a little overbore that they lose accuracy when using standard sized lead bullets. Go up a thousand or two in diameter and they become more accurate. Got a 9mm 1911 that is that way and had another one that was even worse. Slugging the bore and using a larger diameter bullet cured the problem with both but I can't do that with the 22. I can always shoot it as a magnum only.