![]() The extra cylinder, source of the “Convertible” name, came in a little red felt bag with a gold drawstring. No DROSS fee, no Private Party Transfer, no FOID card, no nothing. Then, they shook hands and that was that. The seller had given him a handwritten bill of sale I kept for years. ![]() He’d seen an ad in the local newspaper, driven down to the address listed and done the deal for my birthday. As of 1966, my Dad had gotten me a - barely - used first-year Single-Six Convertible for the sum of 40 bucks. Of course, none of this late ’60s MSRP argle-bargle mattered much to me at the time. 22 Magnum cylinder came along in 1962) was $69.50, still under the $82.50 sticker on Colt’s two-cylinder Frontier Scout rimfire. The Single-Six Convertible (the interchangeable. ![]() The Standard Model, at $41.50 was well under the $71.50 sticker on the Colt Huntsman. At the time Colt was still being several years away from getting back into the SA sixgun business.īy 1969, both the Standard and Single-Six were still priced well below the comparable competition. ![]() It’s been conjectured Ruger’s little single-action was an artful attempt to take advantage of the enormous exposure sixguns were getting via television and movie westerns of the 1950s as he’d noticed a “single-action gap” in the market. Bill Ruger’s Standard Model pistol (1949) and the Single-Six revolver (1953) pretty much set the rimfire handgun market on its ear. ![]()
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