Other details of its features included a nine-shot magazine that was released by a locking latch at the base of the grip frame. 22 pistol makers-which was the main reason for the new Ruger pistol's remarkably low price respective to its competition, a position it kept for many, many years. 22 LR action and notably less expensive to produce than the forged or milled frames used by other. Again not typical, but more than strong enough a. 22 auto pistols of the day).įrom a manufacturing point of view, the most innovative aspect was that the pistol's frame was constructed of facing halves stamped from two flat sheets of steel and then welded together. The dovetailed rear sight was fixed atop the receiver and, therefore, did not move when the gun was fired (still another difference from the typical Colt or High Standard. Coil/music wire springs, not conventional flat springs, were used throughout its mechanism. It had no "slide" as in conventional-form autoloaders but instead employed a cylindrical bolt that operated within a tubular receiver-more resembling a. 22 pistol, soon to be known as the "Standard Model," featured a 4 3/4-inch tapered barrel with six-groove, 1:14 RH-twist rifling. 22 autoloading pistol in history, with over 2,000,000 sold. Thus appeared what soon became, and remains today, the largest selling, most popular. But the full company name at the bottom cleared things up: Sturm, Ruger & Co. 22 LR autoloader that had a silhouette resembling a classic Luger without the toggle bolt, and some who saw the ad, in fact, first thought the "R" in Ruger was a misprint, that it was really an announcement for a new. 22 RUGER pistol," it heralded "the first overall improvement in automatic pistol design since the Browning patent of 1905.for simplicity, strength, and handsomeness it has no equal." There was a sketch of a. The Ruger name in firearms was born in the summer of 1949 when a small advertisement appeared in the pages of the American Rifleman. Ruger's centerfire and rimfire autoloading pistols have framed the company's history from beginning to present. By Dick Metcalf, Technical Editor, Shooting Times.
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