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Post by junebug on Mar 11, 2022 13:27:48 GMT -5
Friend just traded into a Security Six, centennial model I had told him about. Decent shape with a pretty decent single action trigger pull though the double action could use some work. Sweet feeling old revolver!  |
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Post by jfs on Mar 11, 2022 13:48:38 GMT -5
good gun......
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Post by jeffh on Mar 11, 2022 14:19:30 GMT -5
Friend just traded into a Security Six, centennial model I had told him about. Decent shape with a pretty decent single action trigger pull though the double action could use some work. Sweet feeling old revolver!  Jerry Kuhnhausen's Shop Manual on this series is a great resource for these guns. They differ from others in many ways and some parts which seem "crude: to some folks, like the cylinder stop (for one example), has subtleties which must not be ignored.
These are my favorite DA for the most part. I tend toward older Charters mostly, but Ruger took several of the design concepts a huge step up.
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Post by bigmuddy on Mar 11, 2022 14:29:11 GMT -5
I’ve owned several Security Sixes. Always get talked out of them by friends needing a solid revolver. Sold a six inch last fall, and just picked up a stainless 4” last week. I’m really planning on keeping this latest gun. It is a 1977 model that is LNIB. Been wearing and shooting it every day since.
The “brother” that bought my 6” just purchased a 4” off GB. They’re great guns, getting harder to find, and going up in price.
Dan
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Post by contender on Mar 11, 2022 20:47:48 GMT -5
These guns were what I'd call a "sleeper" a few years back. Now,, they all have slipped away into the clutches of knowledgeable gun folks,, BECAUSE they are so good.
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Post by bamagreg on Mar 11, 2022 22:03:01 GMT -5
My very first revolver over 40 years ago was a 6” blue Security-Six. I’ve had several over the years. Very solid guns
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Post by x101airborne on Mar 11, 2022 22:29:48 GMT -5
I still have my 6 inch blue Security Six. It isn't going anywhere.
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Post by parallaxbill on Mar 15, 2022 14:30:08 GMT -5
Really underrated revolvers by many folks. I first shot one decades ago and finally bought a well used 4" blued model a few years ago. I am still surprised every time I shoot it how accurate it is. Now I'm looking for a 6" model that I'd want to deer hunt with.
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Post by x101airborne on Mar 15, 2022 16:31:15 GMT -5
Back when I could see worth a darned I coyote hunted with my Security Six and 140 grain Sierra JHC's. Just dont forget the hearing protection. It really hurts.
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Post by z1r on Mar 15, 2022 16:37:54 GMT -5
My 4" stainless Security Six is hands down my favorite 357. My first OM 4 5/8's BH is a close second.
The SS just carries so nicely and shoots like a dream.
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Post by RoninPA on Mar 23, 2022 17:44:54 GMT -5
Friend just traded into a Security Six, centennial model I had told him about. Decent shape with a pretty decent single action trigger pull though the double action could use some work. Sweet feeling old revolver! I'm new to the forum, mainly to learn a lot more about single actions but I collect/specialize in the Six series Ruger DA's (Security Six, Police Service Six and Speed Six) and I can tell you that they will slick up very nicely and pretty easily. I actually built (in 1990) an PPC gun from a GP100 and other shooters were astounded (when I allowed them to shoot it) how smooth everything worked (and these were diehard S&W K Frame PPC gun shooters). |
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Post by x101airborne on Mar 23, 2022 17:52:02 GMT -5
Friend just traded into a Security Six, centennial model I had told him about. Decent shape with a pretty decent single action trigger pull though the double action could use some work. Sweet feeling old revolver! I'm new to the forum, mainly to learn a lot more about single actions but I collect/specialize in the Six series Ruger DA's (Security Six, Police Service Six and Speed Six) and I can tell you that they will slick up very nicely and pretty easily. I actually built (in 1990) an PPC gun from a GP100 and other shooters were astounded (when I allowed them to shoot it) how smooth everything worked (and these were diehard S&W K Frame PPC gun shooters). Do you slick up actions yourself I take it? Would you slick one up for someone else? |
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Post by contender on Mar 24, 2022 9:37:26 GMT -5
"Do you slick up actions yourself I take it? Would you slick one up for someone else?"
I'll chime in here.
Ron can & will work on Ruger DA handguns. He does a good job too.
The Ruger DA Security series line was built in a kinda response to the domination of S&W in police depts decades ago. Bill wanted a slice of that pie. Don't know if it's true or not,, but at one point,, it was said that Bill was losing money on building them for what he had to sell them for. He got his folks to re-engineer things & the GP-100 was born. True or not,, a fun story!
The "Six" series of DA handguns are truly very well built guns that can & will surprise folks. As I mentioned earlier,, kinda "sleeper" guns.
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Post by RoninPA on Mar 24, 2022 10:06:12 GMT -5
x101airborne,
As contender said, I do work on them for people. I am an FFL (gunsmith) so guns can be sent to me and after the work is complete I send them directly back to the sender, perfectly legal by the BATFE. That said, if the owners state laws say that can't be done, then it has to go to the FFL the owner uses. It is up to the owner to know the laws of their state, I can't keep up with all of them.
I got started as a Ruger DA gunsmith while I was in the USAF. I was shooting competition both in the AF and outside. I was shooting PPC, NRA Bullseye and IHMSA and it was cheaper to become a gunsmith with a FFL to get the parts to repair/modify/build competition guns. I actually built a PPC gun from a GP100 (the standard at the time pretty much was a S&W Model 10 that was completely rebuilt). When I showed up at a match I got a lot of stares and questions about building a PPC gun from something other than a S&W. Then I let the Captain of the Maryland State Police Gold team shoot a stage with it and he couldn't believe how good it shot and word started to get around that S&W's weren't necessarily the end all gun in PPC. Oh, BTW, I was not in the Security Police in the USAF, at that time I ran the calibration laboratory (Precision Measuring Equipment Laboratory) for Dover AFB. The group I shot PPC with had a division for non-police (NRA only recognized police for PPC awards) and when I got transferred from Dover AFB I was the #4 shooter on the Delaware Governors 20 list of shooters.
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