Single Six Heresy

[ezypikns]

I recently purchased a Ruger Single Six. I have shot about 100 rds each of 22 LR and 22 Mag. The weapon is wonderfully accurate and well constructed. I have a question: When does the fun start?
Iknow. It's a .22. It's not supposed to go boom and jump. It's a single action, so I have to rotate the cylinder, eject, rotate the cylinder, eject.... I've got a S&W Mountain Gun in .45 Colt and and old S&W Model 10. I love them both. I just wonder if anyone else out there prefers a double action over a single action?
As Emmit Smith once said: "'Pinions be like buttholes...everybody do have one."
Thanks for reading and let the invective fly.

 

[Smoke]

ANd you have just discovered why there are so many different gun designs....
Everyone is different. I prefer the Single Six to DA revolvers. The Ruger is an extremely fun gun TO ME.

Don't care for it? I bet someone will give you all or most of your money back.
Have you tried sitting under a Mesquite tree near a tank and shooting turtles with it? Mine really likes to do that and that is the most fun to me.

Regards.

Smoke

 

[BluesBear]

The fun will start as soon as you send it to me.
It will have much more fun here than there.

Actually when I now go to the range I shoot a lovely, fixed sight, Colt single action John Wayne .22 that they have for a rental. Sure it takes longer to load. But that way I take my time shooting. I shoot slower and therefore more accurately. I shoot it at no targets closer than 50'.

I was shooting .22 shorts and Aguila 60gr .22SSS (Sniper SubSonic) in it tonight at the THR shoot. I was getting 3" groups, two-handed, at 50'. I had to take my time. But I feel it was well worth it.

It sure was a lot of fun for me.

 

[Magnum88C]

Mine is generally no fun at all. Not because it's a single action, I bought it BECAUSE it's a single action (well, that and the fact I can shoot anything from shorts to magnums in it). It's just, well, a rimfire. And shooting a rimfire at paper just isn't any fun for me.

So, I really don't shoot it unless I can set up some cans or something reactive, then it's a whole new ballgame. It's also great hunting rabbits with. But shooting a static range with any rimfire doesn't do it for me.

Try soem reactive targets, you might change your mind.

 

[ID_shooting]

I agree w. Mag88.

Reactive targets are much funner than paper, any reactive target. I think sitting back in a folding camp chair and blowing up clays, smacking pop cans, or bouncing small soda bottles at 100-150 yards w/ my Single-six is a hoot.

I choose mine because of the price. I wanted a good 22 revo with a 6 inch barrel and adustable sights and narrowed it down to a used S&W 617 for $350.00 or a used Single-six and well, the Ruger was about a 3rd of the price.

I am building a long saw-horse type contraption that I am hanging the left-over tops of the 2 inch metal fence posts we just build our fence with. I am going to cut them at different lenths to tune them (think giant wind chime or like organ tubes) and see what kind of song I can play.

 

[P. Plainsman]

I think tastes like ezypikns and Magnum88C are one reason for the various .32 H&R Magnum Single Sixes. The .32 Mag is like a rimfire with a little more oomph -- and it can be reloaded to taste. Might feel more like "real" shooting to some.

You won't be buying 400 rounds of .32 Mag for $12 at the gun store, however.

 

[halvey]

I think the SS is good for woods carry for that squirrel or varmint you may see. The ability to load long, shorts etc does have it's place. I thought about getting one because I could load those subsonic .22's for varmints on my property without having to worry about the neighbors shed, but I figured for the actualy use I'd get out of it, I'll just skip it.

If I'd find a great deal on a stainless short barreled one, I'd get it. I passed up a long barreled blue one the guy was pretty much giving away. I prefer something a bit bigger when I head to the range. To each his own.

 

[BluesBear]

I passed up a long barreled blue one the guy was pretty much giving away.

:banghead:

 

[444]

So, as you see, fun is different things to different people.
Personally, I really enjoy pretty much every gun I ever owned or fired. I honestly don't have a preference as to one being more fun than the others. I own a machine gun and a bunch of evil black rifles. I own muzzleloaders and black powder revolvers. I own double and single action revolvers. I own double and single action autoloaders. I enjoy them all equally.

I also prefer to shoot paper over reactive targets.

When I was a kid, my best friend owned a Single Six and we shot it all the time. When I was old enough to buy a gun for myself, a single six was one of the first. I have owned several over the years and have fired thousands upon thousands of rounds out of them. I currently own two of them and they are two of my most used handguns.

Shooting is supposed to be fun. At least the kind of shooting we talk about on this board. So, if you arn't enjoying it, don't do it. Pass the gun on to someone that will enjoy it. Like a kid.

 

[George S.]

My Single Six with a 6" barrel is now 27 years old and was my first handgun purchase. I shoot a lot from both the LR and WMR cylinders and it always goes to the range with me no matter what else I take.

It's a fun plinking revolver and it will even shoot some decent 1"-1.5" groups at 25yds using the .22LR cylinder off a sandbag. Dont' think I'll ever sell mine.

 

[EghtySx]

As Emmit Smith once said: "'Pinions be like buttholes...everybody do have one."

HAHAHAHAH. I thought it was "Pings are like..."

They played it and played it on the Ticket.

 

[P95Carry]

The Single Six, in fact any single action always for me has that ''PITA'' element - simply because loading and unloading is slow. Having said that - the thing is not to make those guns rapid fire plinkers - instead enjoy them for the casual, lazy even ... shot every few seconds ... or longer.

Fun is being accurate - getting results. Something about the classic nature of S/A ... pity I am too old to take up CAS.

 

[GaryP]

I like both SA & DA revolvers! One of these days a Ruger NR9 New Model Single Six (9" BBL) is going to find it's way to my door!

 

[JohnBT]

"When does the fun start?"

Well, the gun ain't gonna change, so it looks like the only possibility is an attitude adjustment. Blasting is out, one shot at a time accuracy is in. The time spent reloading is best used to analyze the 'flyers.'

John

 

[outofbattery]

I'm not a revolver guy , let alone an SA guy , but I'd heard how great Single Sixes are and what else can I say , watching Wild West Tech and The Good , The Bad , and The Ugly one too many times swayed me so when one appeared in my local gun shop in ~ 98% for $175 I snapped it up . Not sure of the year of manufacture but it's blued , alloy frame and doesn't have a billboard on the barrel . I have to admit that I didn't even know how to load the thing when I bought it but now it's one of my favorites . It's a different kind of fun but it's one of those things you either get , or you don't . Unloading and loading are much easier once you develop some technique