![]() “Hopalong Cassidy” and “The Lone Ranger” were leaders of the genre starting in 1949. ![]() ![]() Then came the 1950s and this newfangled entertainment contraption called television. It made absolutely no business sense whatsoever to continue to make single-action revolvers. Besides, the tooling to build single-action revolvers was worn out and obsolete. Only a relative handful of rank, old cowboy types still clung to the thumb-buster, and most of them couldn’t scrape together enough cash to buy a new gun. After all, its Model 1911A1 had been the handgun of choice during the worldwide dustup, and double-action revolvers largely ruled the law-enforcement community. During the early post-World War II years Colt had decided to finally move on from single-action revolvers. ![]() Old Bill Ruger was a cagey guy with a hand-and heart-sensitive to the pulse of shooters. ![]()
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