My old Single Six meets the Lyman Digital Trigger Pull Gauge

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johnbt

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I bought a new Single Six Convertible in 1972 and the Lyman gauge earlier this year, but just got around to putting the two together.

I bought the gun in part because I really liked the trigger and it is still entirely stock after all these years. It has had precisely nothing done to it. No parts polishing, no spring clipping, no safety upgrade, etc. It has been shot quite a bit.

The electronic average of six pulls was 2 pounds and 0.7 ounces. I wonder what I'd end up with if I replaced the springs with new ones? I have no idea, but somehow doubt that it would be 2 pounds. Any guesses?

What are the trigger pulls like on the new ones? I've often thought of getting a Super Single Six Convertible with a longer barrel, say 6.5", but have never gotten around to it.

John
 
Bought a Single Six in 99

No , not even close to 39 ounces! If I recall correctly it was near 4.5 pounds and bunches of creep! Real irritating to shoot a creepy trigger. I worked on it myself as far as the hammer - trigger engagement to rid the gun of creep and also took most of the tension off the the trigger spring.

Trigger now breaks at 2 5/8 pounds according to my RCBS trigger pull gauge and the creep is virtually eliminated.
 
629 Shooter - I knew when I typed 2 pounds and 0.7 ounces it would end up being read as 2# & 7 ounces :) Nope. Point seven ounces. A real two pound factory trigger from Ruger.

Blackhawk - Everybody wants a Lyman Digital...they just don't know it yet :D It's just too easy to use after all those years of straining to see a spring gauge or hanging fishing weights on a string. Cock gun, push button, pull trigger, repeat up to a total of ten times, and then push a button for the average.

What's really fun is letting people at the range use it. I don't charge them anything if they let me try their gun first.

John
 
C.R. Sam - I'll use my ammo if they like, but I don't usually carry any .45-70, .303, blackpowder loads, or esoteric high dollar stuff. There was one man with an old model 70 in .458 that offered me a couple of shots. I hit the bull with the first one and quit - he'd offered me the sissy bag he was using, but I wasn't smart enough to use it.

People are just dying to know, really know, how their guns 'measure' up. I mean, I should know, I bought the gauge, right?

John

P.S. - Reminds me of this couple I used to know that had a big hospital quality floor scale in their bathroom. Time after time a guest would go in there and stay and stay and stay. First they'd weigh themselves. Then they'd take their shoes off and weigh themselves. Eventually they'd strip and weigh because they just had to know what they really weighed. It was always good for a laugh when they rejoined the group. "We know what you've been doing."
 
johnbt,

What seems really cool to me is that the Lyman looks like it reads out in pounds, ounces, and 10ths of an ounce instead of pounds and 10ths of a pound. That's like my electronic postal scale, which hardly ever gets to weigh mail stuff.... :D
 
It does weigh in pounds, ounces & tenths of an ounce. Not really a good scale for the super-compulsive person because the thing is sooooo sensitive that it's hard to get two readings in a row to be the precisely the same - impossible if you drink as much coffee as I do.

That's where the average button comes in!

My postal scale is 20-odd years old and has springs.

John
 
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