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Originally Posted by Jim Watson
A single six with hogwallow rear sight is, I think, a fairly recent thing, sometimes called the Vaquerito. Early Single Sixes had a fixed sight in a cross dovetail.
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I know that when I bought mine in about 2000 or 2001 I had to decide between the "standard" (my word, not from the Ruger catalog) version with the cowboy rear sight and the "Super" version (Ruger's word, this time) with the adjustable rear sight. The FFL talked me into the adjustable, and I have more or less regretted it ever since. It shoots well and it is nice to be able to dial it in -- but I grew up in the heyday of the television westerns, and the adjustable sight just doesn't look right on a six-shooter.
As to recent? The 50th Anniversary Single Six has the cowboy style rear sight. I'm pretty certain that's what came first.
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