Into my local pawn/sport shop yesterday came a minty little Ruger pistol.
I fought off the urge to buy it for 36 hours - but today I had to have it.
The pistol is one I could and still can not find reference to in my collection of "Blue Books" and a couple of other reference books.
My questions are:
#1: When was it made?
#2: Whats its value (I paid $200.00 cash and got a nice holster with it)?
#3: Is it safe to dry fire this pistol with no "snap-caps" in place?
Now for the description: its a stainless steel single action revolver with wooden (Walnut) grips, adjustable sights, 6 1/2" barrel, the nomenclature on the pistols says "Ruger New Model 22 Cal. Single-Six"!
It is NOT a "Convertible" Model at all - which is puzzling to me as most of these were "convertibles" - weren't they?.
In fact the frame area around the cylinder is NOT long enough to have a 22 Magnum shell fit in this area - let alone an even longer 22 Magnum cylinder. So the pistol was specifically made just for 22 L.R.!
The serial number is 62-736XX.
It does have a "transfer bar" which would date it after 1973 - IF, I am reading the literature I found correctly.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Hold into the wind
VarmintGuy
