Buying used Ruger Single Six .22L.R./.22 mag.

Nice find. I've got one from 87. Purchased it new and it still functions flawlessly. In fact, I just cleaned it today from yesterday's range time. You'll enjoy it.

 

My old beater '76 model with the ''200 Yr. Liberty'' mark on the barrel. Bianchi leather holster. It's 3rd from the top.

 

Nice collection!

 

Fantastic find

They are good shooters, reliable and will last forever. Fun times ahead.

 

I've owned one of those, w/6.5" barrel, for over 40 years.
Don't count that LR cylinder out just yet. Mine is crazy accurate with Fed 36 gr HP LR (550 round bulk pack) ammo at 50 yd.
It's just as accurate with every type of Magnum ammo I've tried but it is a little picky about what LR ammo it likes.
(Two clicks down for LR at 50 yd).

 

Every gun is different. Yours might like some other ammo.
My 10/22 doesn't like Fed 36 gr HP nearly as well as it likes CCI 36 gr HP Mini Mags but the Single Six doesn't like Mini Mags at all.

 

Good looking bunch of pistolas Pancho..

Jim

 

Very nice "posse" of revolvers there, Pancho. I had a Ruger .44 Magnum with the 10-inch barrel that I wanted to use on a "hog" hunt in eastern Tennessee. So I could get it out of my Bianchi holster a bit quicker, I lopped off 4-inches of the barrel and reset the front sight. At six inches the barrel was much easier to clear the holster. One handload of Speer 240 grain flat nose bullets, and I had some of the toughest dang meat I ever tired to chew on.

 

Hogs should be shot in the neck, or the head (behind the ear) if using small caliber. They'll drop easily than when shot in the rib cage.
Piglets taste better 40 lbs. or less. The older hogs are tough and taste like stale muddy hog water. They are okay if trophy hunting.

 

Sweet looking collection Pancho_Villa.

 

Many under estimate the .22 LR most who grew up on a farm butchering their own Hogs know a .22LR just below the ear will put down a hog .I eradicate Feral & Coyotes and I've killed several Hogs and Coyotes with just a .22LR Rifle & Pistol at close and medium range 0-75 yards. The Majority of hogs were shot at 60 yards over bait piles with a 40 grain hollow point delivered to the head into the vicinity of the ear and it drops them like a stone. I found the best load for my .22 rifle & pistol to be the 40 GRAIN COPPER PLATED HOLLOW POINT CCI Velocitor its the most accurate and fastest at 1435 fps .22LR of its weight on the market today .I had some coyotes come to my wounded rabbit call and I took one of them at 100 yards away .In most cases using the .22 LR the Hogs will return after a .22 LR is fired because of its low report .I shot a 400 pound SOW and her 10 piglets in the span of an Hour because the piglets returned to the Dead SOW I was in a 21 foot ladder stand at 65 yards from a feeder where the Sow Lay dead.10 piglets and one 400 pound Sow was delivered to the processor and the Meat donated to feed the needy. Here are some Hogs & Coyotes I killed with the .22 LR.






This coyote came within 10 yards of my Tree Stand and was shot with a .22 Ruger Wrangler Revolver.He made a yap and a spin and dropped.

 

That's a nice collection of revolvers.

 

I prefer the base of the ear but anywhere in this area will drop them.

 

NEVER will I personally ever, consider the .22 Long Rifle more capable than anything larger, than a raccoon. If you happen to be hunting from a "mobile platform" I suppose even a pellet gun will work to worry a feral hog to death, but I've personally seen way too many failures involved with .22 Long Rifle ammunition in the form of "duds", or abhorrent misfires to consider that cartridge viable for self-defence of anything more ferocious than a skunk:

Now, there may be a few who have the patience to smack a .22 rimfire round several times before the bullet comes out the muzzle and hope like hell a sharpass tusk misses a vital artery, if contact should occur, but when encountering critters that BITE, I want to get the situation over much quicker:

That's why my choice involves a .44 magnum with pigs and black bear in this part of the USA.

 

I also like to pair Rifle & Pistol calibers .22LR , .22 Magnum, 9MM , .38/.357 MAGNUM , .44 Magnum , They all use the same ammo and in some cases the same magazines with the Semi Auto rifles & Pistols.