Don’t Take Your Guns to Town, Boy
It wasn’t long before I grew tired of my BB gun and longed for real bullets and shotgun pellets. After all, I was 14 and all my friends had their own guns. I started hunting squirrel, crows and rats (at the local dump, more on that in an upcoming post) using my Dad’s .22 rifle and 12-gauge double-barreled shotgun. The shotgun was a little heavy for squirrels but had decent range for the crows. The .22 was perfect for rat work.
My real fascination, however, was for the firearms used by my TV western heros like Cheyenne, the Rifleman and Wyatt Earp. They all packed Colt .45’s and Winchester lever-action Model 94’s. The crushing reality was that those weapons were a bit high-powered for adolescent use. Ruger Arms came to the rescue with a .22 version of the famous Colt pistol. It was aptly called the “Super Single Six”.
After working for a summer in my cousin’s laundry and drycleaning plant, I had enough money to buy the pistol and a Lawrence Gunslinger II holster (just like on TV). Like my BB gun, these items arrived in our mailbox.
So there I was, 14, biking around the backroads on my bike packing my own “almost Colt .45″ pistol.
Life was good.
Ruger Super Single Six pistol
