It can be used to determine the approximate year your Ruger firearm was It is not necessarily the very first serial number shipped, but This number should be used as a point of reference The above chart shows the approximate first serial number shipped for * 50th Anniversary Model produced within 268-prefix range. (Includes Bisley Models & 50th Anniversary 22 LR ones, unlike later models where they were unfluted.Ruger New Model Single Six Serial Number History In the early models, of course, the 22 Mag cylinders looked exactly like the. Just stuck it in the safe and kind of forgot about it. Guess I should have looked into it more back then. After reading this thread this morning I pulled it out to look at it, and discovered the second cylinder the factory sent me back was also a Mag one! Kind of explains why it shot. 22 Mags with the original cylinder very well. I did not want to have to shoot just more expensive 22 WMR ammo through it. I sent that gun to Ruger to have it fitted with a. Any chance that could be a SC6M, or were those only later models? Serial number 307xxx, which according to Ruger makes it a 1960 gun. 22 Mag 6 1/2 inch barrel old model Single Six that I bought years ago, just because I never knew Ruger ever made them. Let us know how it turns out!! If it comes back as SC6M you have a unicorn!!! That invoice stated it was part of a larger order of say 30 or 35 guns (I don't remember now). with it, I would still contact the factory to see if it was shipped as SC6 or SC6M.Īt least 15 SC6M were produced for a distributor. If it was shipped as a convertible, then Ruger scratched the front of both cylinders with the last three digits.īut if it only has a Mag. only, the last three digits of the serial number should not be scratched on the front face of your cylinder. cylinder with it or is it a convertible? If it was shipped as Mag. So I really think Ruger's box printer got their line-o-type mixed up between box printings. There are also a very few of those known in the early 20- prefix.

CALIBER REVOLVER' which had been printed with that since the mag. A few earlier than that serial number range are also known to have been shipped in that box as are a very few with a 60- prefix.Īt the very same time, Ruger's RSSM printed 2-piece box for the fixed sight model began appearing with '.22 CALIBER REVOLVER' printed on the end instead of '.22 W.M.R. CALIBER REVOLVER' on the end instead of '.22 CALIBER REVOLVER'. In the 560xxx to 566xxx range the SC6 box started appearing with '.22 W.M.R. That being said, the maker of Ruger's two piece boxes also made a printing error, and it just happened to occur at about the same time the SC6M were produced. The only one that had been known was 555430, however we have no idea of the whereabouts of that revolver today. there were indeed at least 15 of the model SC6 Super Single-Six with 6-1/2' barrel shipped from the factory as.

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