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Post by CraigC on Apr 19, 2019 11:34:18 GMT -5
I've got a handful of $200 Single Sixes and have always pushed folks to go that route rather than the Heritage but I'm afraid those days are long gone. They're still a good bit more affordable than a new one.
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Post by cdf41 on Apr 19, 2019 12:01:09 GMT -5
I would definitely rather have one of these Wranglers along with me fishing ,hunting, beating around the woods, etc. And have a slip up in the river or mud with it, than a $500-$600 very nice Single Six.
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Post by 44guru on Apr 19, 2019 12:38:17 GMT -5
In the late 1960's when a Colt Python was $125.00 and a Ruger Single Six was $63.00 I couldn't afford either one. I started shooting single actions with a cheap German made .22 that was less than $30.00 and that was half of my weekly pay check.I have been blessed and very lucky to end up with a few very nice single actions so I am in favor of a reasonably priced gun to get the fire going!
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Post by taffin on Apr 19, 2019 12:47:36 GMT -5
I just threw up! I DON'T BELIEVE YOU DID!!
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Post by Ken O'Neill on Apr 19, 2019 13:49:42 GMT -5
Good grief. Seems like the answer to a question nobody asked. KEN OBVIOUSLY A LOT OF PEOPLE ASKED OR RUGER WOULD NOT BE MAKING IT. John, that may indeed be so, and I see that Jeff Quinn is "excited" about it. To each his own .... Maybe I will some day warm to it. Maybe. I do know that you and I have both spent some money over the years replacing aluminum Ruger parts with steel ones.
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Post by squawberryman on Apr 19, 2019 14:04:13 GMT -5
As an owner of a Ruger or two I have to side with the positives. Might get someone shooting SA who hasn't otherwise, might dispatch vermin, might be an accurate gun even. Might do a lot of things, and do it for two hundred bucks. Ruger's walked down that road so much the rut is deep. If some people take care of their guns like their trucks, the innards need to be coated as well.
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Post by taffin on Apr 19, 2019 14:04:20 GMT -5
KEN OBVIOUSLY A LOT OF PEOPLE ASKED OR RUGER WOULD NOT BE MAKING IT. John, that may indeed be so, and I see that Jeff Quinn is "excited" about it. To each his own .... Maybe I will some day warm to it. Maybe. I do know that you and I have both spent some money over the years replacing aluminum Ruger parts with steel ones. YOU ARE RIGHT ABOUT THAT. I WOULDN'T BE SURPRISED IF EACH ONE OF THE GRANDKIDS WIND UP WHAT IS THE PERFECT "BEATER GUN" THAT IS SHOOT IT , CARRY IT, PACK IT IN T EBACKPACK OR TACKLE BOX AND DON'T WORRY ABOUT IT.
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Post by edk on Apr 19, 2019 14:17:57 GMT -5
If the used SS buyers can hold out maybe one of these will be available for $129 in a while
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Post by z1r on Apr 19, 2019 14:37:39 GMT -5
I just threw up! I DON'T BELIEVE YOU DID!!
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Post by z1r on Apr 19, 2019 14:46:45 GMT -5
To be fair, my first revolver, a gift from my granddad, was a Sears and Roebuck branded copy of the High Standard Double Nine. I literally shot that revolver to pieces. I was fun while it lasted, but at a brick a week, became loose fairly quickly. It led to my purchasing a 9.5" SS Convertible that I still have. Not mine.
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Post by Encore64 on Apr 19, 2019 15:09:39 GMT -5
I'm not against an economy line of revolvers or any other type of gun. I just hate to see Ruger stoop to this level.
That being said, I'll repeat to each his own.
It seems that if all don't agree with the self proclaimed elite, we clearly don't understand.
I suspect most of us understand just fine and I love new products. Just don't think this one is a great idea. Sure they will sell because society loves a "bargain" more than they do a quality product.
Interesting thread and enjoy reading different views of this and other new products. Sad that some are so shortsighted as to not to respect each others opinion, even when we don't agree...
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Post by squawberryman on Apr 19, 2019 15:56:54 GMT -5
Encore what if it DOES fit a niche that was unfilled? The bottom of a canoe in a canvas sack is no place for a gun that requires maintenance. Clearing trap lines in the rain, etc. That's why I hoped the internals and not just the externals were treated. Get a blue SS, send it to Birdsong, way above two hundred.
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Post by Encore64 on Apr 19, 2019 16:22:02 GMT -5
Encore what if it DOES fit a niche that was unfilled? The bottom of a canoe in a canvas sack is no place for a gun that requires maintenance. Clearing trap lines in the rain, etc. That's why I hoped the internals and not just the externals were treated. Get a blue SS, send it to Birdsong, way above two hundred. Of course, I'm not saying no one should buy them. I'm saying it's not for me. The "niche" is filled by Heritage and others. I just hate to see a good gun company on a slippery slope. Everyone proclaimed the Ruger Americans were a good economy line that filled a "niche." Then the nice Ruger #1s and M77s started to disappear. It's not unlike the dumbing down of America. Our great products are being replaced by plastic and pot metal. Everyone is focused on a "niche" being filled and not to our great firearms being phased out. Let's start doing instruction manuals with pictures instead of words. That will fill a "niche" for the illiterate. Heck, we do it with road signs now. Colt did very similar stuff. Remember the "Colt Cowboy?" A great American Company that's nearly gone. Don't even believe Colt builds the new "Colt" 380. Now that "niche" is filled by an Italian Company named Uberti. We were told it wouldn't happen, guess what... I'm not saying the Wrangler should or shouldn't exist. Just feel it another step in the wrong direction. I think we can still do that, at least in the Red States...
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Post by taffin on Apr 19, 2019 17:05:42 GMT -5
I'm not against an economy line of revolvers or any other type of gun. I just hate to see Ruger stoop to this level. That being said, I'll repeat to each his own. It seems that if all don't agree with the self proclaimed elite, we clearly don't understand. I suspect most of us understand just fine and I love new products. Just don't think this one is a great idea. Sure they will sell because society loves a "bargain" more than they do a quality product. Interesting thread and enjoy reading different views of this and other new products. Sad that some are so shortsighted as to not to respect each others opinion, even when we don't agree... Huey: I respect your right to any opinion you want to have on any subject BUT no way does that mean I have to agree with you. No one has yet seen, felt, and certainly not shot The Wrangler so how can we make comments on its quality? (Ruger offered the Single-Six in the 1950s with an aluminum alloy frame.) I'll save that until I really have one for testing. I don't see Ruger "stoop to this level." In 1956 I bought my first Single-Six for $63.25. That same year the house we now live in and have been in for 50 years sold for $8500. I could list it tomorrow morning for more than 30 times the price and it will be sold by evening. Now Ruger has come in with a gun that cost not 30 times what it did in 1956 but four times. I see this as a very wise decision on Ruger's part but that's only my opinion.
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Post by boots on Apr 19, 2019 17:06:55 GMT -5
I like the idea that someone starting out in the gun world can get an inexpensive revolver made in this country, plus anyone just wanting a good but inexpensive gun for working in the fields or trap lines . I have SS and a bunch of others but I will get one of these to keep on the tractor and give to one of my grandchildren. It may be the ideal "beater gun".
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