RSS6, throughout the Old Model Single-Six production that ended The boxes for these 6-1/2 inch barrel convertiblesĬontinued to be marked with the catalog number “RSSM”, not “Magnum Only” Single-Sixes ended sometime in August –Ħ-1/2” barrel length soon was made available in the standard Like the standard Single-Six but designated with Cat. Guns came in a black and red box with a yellow wreath on top Retrofit their “Magnum Only” single-cylinder guns with a. “convertible” came from customers requesting that Ruger The idea of producing these dual cylinder guns or a Last three digits of the gun’s serial number stamped on itsįront face, close to the cylinder base pin hole. About March 1961 Ruger began to produce these Magnum Only Put in a special serial number range of their own beginning withģ00000 and ending at 340XXX. In early 1960 the Magnum Only guns were also madeĪvailable with varnished walnut grip panels. They were roll-marked “RUGER SINGLE-SIX WIN.22 RF MAG. 22 “Magnum Only” around June of that same year.īarrels, round loading gates, checkered black hard rubber grips,Īnd no firing pin groove in the rear of the cylinder. Ruger introduced its Single-Six single action revolver in bl.RUGER OLD MODEL SINGLE-SIX “MAGNUM ONLY” REVOLVERS They will add an R for rubber grips or W for walnut grips or X for convertibles.Īgain this only applies if your gun is a "6 1/2" in.
Old model Single-Sixes will have a catalog number starting with RSSM. only then you have a very rare Ruger.Īll 6 1/2 in. These guns are very rare, and if your gun will letter from Ruger as a Mag. only guns but the frames were only marked Ruger. Just about all of these guns were convertibles, but they also still made a few Mag. After about serial number 340,000 they started marking the frames Ruger Single Six only instead of Ruger Single-Six Win.22 RF Magnum. And some where toward the upper end of the serial numbers they started intermixing the convertibles in with the magnum only guns.
Those Magnum marked frames ran from serial number 300,000 to about 340,000. When Ruger started making the 6 1/2 in guns they only made them as a Magnum only and as such they started stamping the frames as such. I think that Ruger listed all 6 1/2 in guns in the Magnum only list even though not all 6 1/2 in Single-Sixes are Magnum only.Ī little history. Now after all of this being said this doesn't mean that your gun is a Magnum only it only means that Ruger used RSSM for all 6 1/2 in. Which stands for Ruger Single-Six Magnum.
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