![]() 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. in fact it can cause it to bend or break.Those were the days, my friend. If the plunger gets oiled too much and the oil ages, it will cause it to get sticky and not function properly. I normally wipe the parts down with a drop of oil, removing all but a slight film. If you dry cycle the hammer, you can feel the hammer plunger contact then release on the hammer back stroke then as you ease the hammer down, you can feel the plunger contact the cylinder latch again. The plunger will then snap back out and be ready to cock the hammer again. This will make the plunger move deeper in its hole until the motion of the hammer moves past the cylinder latch. When you fire or dry fire, the hammer plunger will strike the cylinder latch tail. This allows the cylinder latch to spring back up and drag on the cylinder until it latches into one of the cylinder's 6 lock notches. After a few degrees of rotation, the hammer plunger cams off the tail. This causes the front of the cylinder latch to pivot down and release the cylinder so it can rotate. ![]() HAM, As you start to cock the hammer, the tip of the hammer plunger contacts the tail on the back of the cylinder latch. ![]()
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