My friend who is right handed owns this old model Ruger Single Six set up for fanning fast draw. I haven't seen it in person yet but he said the bore and front of the cylinder are larger caliber while the back of the cylinder takes .22 blanks. they propel the larger diameter wax bullets. The rig with it is outstanding and looks almost new and is for a 4 3/4" Colt SAA .44 or .45. So the Ruger is real small for it, of course. It has a metal deflector attached to the bottom, and a aluminum insert inside to protect the front inside of the holster if a gun is accidentally fire too quick in the holster and won’t fry the leather and tear up stitching. I asked him if that came out and it did easily. Targets and cartridges unrelated to gun and rig.


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Rig is Left handed. I wonder if gun just has blue polished off or is it plated.
When I was in Army down El Paso way over 50yrs ago I saw fast draw guns similar, but not 22s. I don’t think they were firing even wax. Just the bang on a timer. Seems to me the club name was Raw Hiders.

I’m left handed and that’s one reason I’m so interested in it. I’m interested in seeing that gun in person, too. I think the wax shooting barrels were aluminum.

Frame and cylinder look like a typical stainless Single Six, but the barrel looks different, it could very well be aluminum.

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Except there were no stainless 3 screw old models and that appears to have 3.

True, and now that I look closer, I can see remnants of bluing in the cylinder flutes.

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I don’t know. If that’s a 3screw Single-6 the cylinder is still going to be original diameter. I don’t see how it could have the cylinder reamed out to 44 or 45 cal. Some part of this ain’t quite right. I’m to lazy to go down stairs and fetch a S-6 to measure cylinder. Somebody else do it.

My friend who’s in his 80s and was a fast draw champ way back when verified my guess that a .22 blank fired the wax. But he didn’t say what caliber the front part was. I figure .32 is the biggest to hold six rounds. He recently sold an old Great Western Arms .45 cylinder with the same .22 blank arrangement. Got good money for it, too.