Dangerous times even in small town

[Sigarms]

Of course you will, but you won't if hit in the leg, arm, etc. Center of mass? Maybe but not like a 45.

As for bullet placement? It goes out the window pretty much in the heat of the battle. That is why they train "center of mass"

I completely agree with you.

The whole idea with a small .22LR pistol is to get in close proximity. A .22LR supressed in a sub 6" barrel close range (less than 2') is as good as it gets for it's intented purpose. The reality is, we seem to forget that for "close range", probably nothing is as more lethal than a knife if you know how to use it.

When someone comes to rob you, are they wearing body armor and are they carrying? Since we are on the defensive, we HAVE to assume to worse, that the intruder wants to kill us. I'd guess that per statistics, this is probably further than the truth. As someone said, even show a gun, or make a loud gunshot, chances are, your opponent is running in the opposite direction because they didn't think they'd meet any type of armed resistance.

I have two young boys. Their guns are a ruger 10/22 with a 30 round banana clip and a Remington youth 20 guage with buckshot. I feel more comfortable with them using those two guns than a semi 9mm pistol. That said, they've never peed themselves shooting in a high stress envrioment, but I feel more comfortable (and they as well) using those two guns over anything else I own.

 

[k0ua]

I've got two Single sixes with .22 mag cylinder. Don't have a .22 mag round in the house.

As a young man, I had one box of .22mag for my Single Six. I think that is about all I ran thru it. Lots of .22LR though.

 

[Sigarms]

As a young man, I had one box of .22mag for my Single Six. I think that is about all I ran thru it. Lots of .22LR though.

You made me think... I actually have 3 single sixes now that I moved my father down to live with us.

His single six he bought around 1979, and that was my first single six I ever shot. It was his gun we ran the .22 mags through. The other two I've since picked up as an adult I've never used for .22 mags with.

From time to time I really do want to look at the .17 HMR though. Hornady rubbed me the wrong way with the .450 Marlin though and I can't help but want to think of them as marketing gimmicks.

 

[plowhog]

And point out some of the laughable conclusions that people that know nothing about firearms and cartridges (most reporters and news personalities) come to.

You mean something like a black-colored AR-15 shooting a .223 round using a 10 round magazine is an "evil gun" because of the way it looks? While a wood stock Ruger Mini-14 is OK because it is called a "ranch rifle" and it ..... looks more docile? Despite that they are virtual equals in performance?

 

[plowhog]

You made me think... I actually have 3 single sixes

I sold my single six many years ago and greatly regret doing so.

Anyone who owns one should check to see if it is a "recalled" gun. There was an unsafe trigger/hammer issue on some models and I believe Ruger will upgrade those guns for free.

 

[Jstpssng]

You mean something like a black-colored AR-15 shooting a .223 round using a 10 round magazine is an "evil gun" because of the way it looks? While a wood stock Ruger Mini-14 is OK because it is called a "ranch rifle" and it ..... looks more docile? Despite that they are virtual equals in performance?

You're off the hook, we get it that you've seen the light and renounced your error. Besides, it's nice to see somebody else with egg on their face for a change.

 

[Sigarms]

I sold my single six many years ago and greatly regret doing so.

Anyone who owns one should check to see if it is a "recalled" gun. There was an unsafe trigger/hammer issue on some models and I believe Ruger will upgrade those guns for free.

The gun is worth more if you didn't send it back to get it fixed per the transfer bar.

I don't see the issue as being "unsafe", just that what they came up with was more idiot proof with the transfer bar so less shiteheads would accidently shoot themselves carrying the hammer on a live round.

See below, quoted from a 2010 ruger forum on this SAME subject...

DON'T convert that great Old Model to the transfer bar - that would be a downgrade, not an upgrade.

It will significantly lower it's value both as a collector piece and as a shooter.

If you send it to Ruger to be downgraded the trigger will come back not as light and crisp as it now.

If you're uncomfortable with it as is I humbly suggest that you sell it to someone who will appreciate it's original condition, then buy one of the myriad of Single Sixes made in the last 30 years with the transfer bar. If it's a family heirloom retire it to the safe and buy a transfer bar shooter, if that's what you want.

There is absolutely nothing unsafe about an Old Model so long as you always load it so that it is carried hammer down on an empty chamber - just the way God and Colonel Colt intended.

 

[Fuddy1952]

Here's two funny ones, the second story only because the fellow lived through it and healed ok!
First one a few years ago I had been trying to dispose of a big groundhog digging under a shed near the house. I awoke one morning right at sunup , peeked out the bedroom window and there he was!
I eased window open and grabbed my 12ga., wife sound asleep snoring.
"BOOM!" groundhog never knew what hit him...wife's reaction was unexpected (after jumping a few feet in the air).
"Cordite! Cordite and gunpowder...hadn't smelled that in over 50 years since staying on granddads farm...what do you want for breakfast?"!
Second one last summer a neighbor decides to make a 12 gauge pistol. He had a pipe, right size and fabricated a spring loaded hammer. We tried telling him not to but it fired it, blowing part of his hand off. Lucky for him it was between thumb and index finger, at hospital they managed to fix the damage and he's okay now.
One of those hold my beer and watch this moments.

 

[Jstpssng]

^^^^
The second story reminds me of a kid when I was in Junior High.
He had soldered a nickel to the end of a length of copper pipe and drilled a hole in it for a fuse, to make a miniature BP cannon. I believe that he also made his own powder. Even to my inexperienced eye it looked like a recipe for disaster but what did I know? (He showed it to me in home room one day... can you imagine that now?)
Sure enough when he and his friends touched it off the thing blew up... luckily they knew to stay back in case that happened.

 

[Jstpssng]

The gun is worth more if you didn't send it back to get it fixed per the transfer bar.

I don't see the issue as being "unsafe", just that what they came up with was more idiot proof with the transfer bar so less shiteheads would accidently shoot themselves carrying the hammer on a live round.

See below, quoted from a 2010 ruger forum on this SAME subject...

DON'T convert that great Old Model to the transfer bar - that would be a downgrade, not an upgrade.

It will significantly lower it's value both as a collector piece and as a shooter.

If you send it to Ruger to be downgraded the trigger will come back not as light and crisp as it now.

If you're uncomfortable with it as is I humbly suggest that you sell it to someone who will appreciate it's original condition, then buy one of the myriad of Single Sixes made in the last 30 years with the transfer bar. If it's a family heirloom retire it to the safe and buy a transfer bar shooter, if that's what you want.

There is absolutely nothing unsafe about an Old Model so long as you always load it so that it is carried hammer down on an empty chamber - just the way God and Colonel Colt intended.

When you have the upgrade done they also include the old parts for the very reasons given above. It's been a lot longer than 30 years since the recall anyways... only applying to guns made prior to 1973.

Still, yours is a worthwhile reminder.