![]() ![]() Those old western movies featured the likes of Roy, Gene, Hoppy, Wild Bill, Tim, Buck, Rocky, Lash and dozens of others all of whom used single action sixguns to tame their part of the West. They don’t quite have the same effect today as they did, but I do enjoy going back to those wonderful days of my childhood even if only for an hour at a time. We have progressed so far here in the beginning decade of the 21st century I now pay for cable TV and buy videos and DVDs so I can watch the same old westerns I watched as a kid. Many of those old movies were “B” Westerns. Live performance variety shows, sporting events, wrestling and more wrestling, and old movies were the mainstay of television at mid-century. Those early networks had to fill their time slots in those wonderful days before 24-hour newscasts and infomercials. In the late 1940s television arrived and began to spread throughout the country from both coasts. Colt had no intention of ever producing the Model P Single Action again they had not counted on the powerful influence of television and Bill Ruger. ![]() The already worn machinery had been moved to the parking lot into the ravages of weather to make room in the factory for wartime production. The SAA from Colt had been dead and buried for more than 10 years, having been dropped at the beginning of World War II. When Bill Ruger decided to offer his first sixgun he went against all conventional wisdom. The Single-Six was Sturm, Ruger’s first revolver after successfully introducing their. 22s we could afford - in my case it was through a Marlin 39 Mountie as well as the Single-Six - followed by a cleaning session with Hoppe’s. We had not yet learned that sixguns did not have to be cleaned after every shooting session, so the standard procedure on Saturday afternoons was to shoot all the. By then we were old enough to appreciate the smell of perfume, however, even this was not quite as sweet to our sense of smell as powder smoke and Hoppe’s #9. All of us paid a hard-earned $63.25 for the relatively new Ruger Single-Six. In those days firearms were easily accessible to kids 16 was the legal purchasing age in my area with no forms to fill out, and there was no question what the first sixgun would be. We thought they’d never end.” It was 1956 and I had purchased my first very own handgun. ![]()
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