I ran up and got my .22 Ruger Buntline model, also withthe extra cylinder. Not sure what draw its in right now but its in a red pouch.
I used to take it with me on my trap line here. Mostly muskrat and mink that we sold to Sears in the spring time.
The one above it is the Ruger .44 Mag my wife got me about 20 years ago.
I like stainless and the western style for playing around with. Have plenty of others but your mention of them made we go pull a few out. Ruger is made here in CT. Fact, when I was 18 and it was still Trum and Ruger we used to cast their frames for them in the foundry I worked in. I still have a few of them around here that failed x-ray that I kept for the heck of it..... This was a lost wax foundry process, so when they were pouring stainless, we would make a bunch of bluefish jigs up in wax, melt them out and pour them in stainless. Still have many of those also. Buff them up and you were golden. A little light for fishing a place here called the race, or Race Rock Light...but they worked right on the edge of it or slack tide.
I still collect single shot pistols but not like I used to. Sure wish I was had been living in your part of the country for hunting seasons. Mostly small game and white tail deer here was the big game. Further north there were moose and bear but not then in CT. Some bear now and moose, but they are protected. Deer here,they don't almost care how you get them as they are reallying doing some damage to a lot of peoples crops, shrubs etc. They make every thing along the coast so you can't hunt it and then wonder why there are so many of them. Up here where I am in the north eastern part of Ct, they are pretty well managed by hunters so you have a good deer herd to land ration.
You lived a life that many of us hunters would have really enjoyed. Even here, just after the war ended we hunted and fished for a lot of our food. For me, vension, flat fish and fluke, ducks were very good eatting, along with steamer clams or long necks, razor clams then and oxysters then also, not many now, and quahogs and blue shell crabs.... Still make my mouth water.
Anyhow tried to see if this 22 was the same as yours?
George-CT