There will always be the occasional "late shipped" gun having bits and pieces that were released considerably after the gun's serial number might indicate, or the occasional gun wearing some older bits from way earlier production that just floated to the top of the "parts bin" at final assembly. He can, for instance, occasionally come pretty close to revealing within a month's time when certain features/parts were changed in a run of a particular model. His serial number breakouts are considerably more precise than anything Ruger has put out, and his discussion of which parts were used when is further informative.
bl.Knowing the month as well as the year certainly helps since the various "type" configurations of many of the Old Models are pretty well known and documented in Chet15's Red Eagle News Exchange Reference of Ruger Firearms. 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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