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<blockquote data-quote="TheDoubleD" data-source="post: 3735262" data-attributes="member: 43754">I was Just thinking that had to be in the 80&#039;s or 90&#039;s.&nbsp; It was a long barreled Single 6 .22 that I used in&nbsp; IHMSA .22&#039;s. It&#039;s a factory conversion, actually as I recall it was a parts replacement not a conversion or modification to the gun.&nbsp;&nbsp; I know the deal back then was to return to old parts, so if you had both sets of parts there was a premium among collectors.&nbsp; You were still supposed to able to assemble the old parts back into the gun. I don&#039;t recall even what parts were involved.&nbsp; Never had a problems with work from the Ruger factory.Wasn&#039;t it the Colt clones that had to be pulled to half cock to load.&nbsp;&nbsp; The Hammer notch&nbsp; was where the hammer rested between between chambers,&nbsp; so the striker would not rest on a primer. Either that or the hammer rested on an empty chamber&nbsp;If I were to acquire an old model that did not have the conversion, the first thing I would do is send it in and get it converted.In 1969 a friend of mine was taking his loaded and holstered Ruger single action out of&nbsp; a storage locker and bumped the hammer.&nbsp; The gun discharged and the bullet struck our other friend in the head and killed him.&nbsp; One man dead, one mans life&nbsp; destroyed. We were in the military and he was court martialed and sent to&nbsp; Portsmouth.I have never liked revolvers with out some sort of hammer block safeties since.Edited to add the NOT</blockquote>

[QUOTE="TheDoubleD, post: 3735262, member: 43754"] I was Just thinking that had to be in the 80's or 90's. It was a long barreled Single 6 .22 that I used in IHMSA .22's. It's a factory conversion, actually as I recall it was a parts replacement not a conversion or modification to the gun. I know the deal back then was to return to old parts, so if you had both sets of parts there was a premium among collectors. You were still supposed to able to assemble the old parts back into the gun. I don't recall even what parts were involved. Never had a problems with work from the Ruger factory. Wasn't it the Colt clones that had to be pulled to half cock to load. The Hammer notch was where the hammer rested between between chambers, so the striker would [B]not[/B] rest on a primer. Either that or the hammer rested on an empty chamber If I were to acquire an old model that did not have the conversion, the first thing I would do is send it in and get it converted. In 1969 a friend of mine was taking his loaded and holstered Ruger single action out of a storage locker and bumped the hammer. The gun discharged and the bullet struck our other friend in the head and killed him. One man dead, one mans life destroyed. We were in the military and he was court martialed and sent to Portsmouth. I have never liked revolvers with out some sort of hammer block safeties since. Edited to add the NOT [/QUOTE]

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