Friend Travis C
Friend Travis C:
I do not work on Ruger Single Six's............but, I collect them, have for about 30 years.....I have two Flatgates in my collection......
Anyway, I have re-barreled some with match grade, taper lapped barrels and if you get a good cylinder they can be pretty accurate....
What one finds is usually one cylinder or maybe a couple will show more accuracy.......I built one once that by loading only one, marked cylinder it shot inside a half inch at 50 yards with good, match ammo...
I am currently, in my spare time,?? building what I hope will be the ultimate Single Six.......I have machined a new base pin, oversized to reduce any slop between it and the cylinder........ I am short cylindering it, in other words I'm machining the front face of the cylinder back so the bullet will not have to jump.....course the barrel will extend back through the frame to match.........
I'm going to use a minimal forcing cone, polished like a mirror, although one flaw in revolvers is one must have a pretty large forcing cone or the cylinder will spit lead, even with very well aligned cylinders....
The barrel I'm using is taper lapped, just like I do in my rimfire benchrest guns and I will also be using one of my muzzle attached barrel tuners....
I've built them in the past with bull barrels, requiring milling the barrel for the ejector rod housing but I've found I can get much better accuracy by using very skinny barrels and my muzzle attached barrel tuners....
My goal is to have a Ruger Single Six that will agg .350" at 50 yards....I think there's a good possibility I can do it.....
Good luck with your project...again, I don't work on them....I enjoy fooling with them for myself....
Your freind, Bill Calfee