My father - your basic Depression/WWII guy - was aghast at my profligacy but I didn’t care. The first chunk of disposable income I laid hands on went straight to a 50-round box of Winchester Super-X. 22 Long Rifle unit got little use back in those days. Changing cylinders took me - mechanically challenged as I was -under 10 seconds but I must confess the. 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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