Carry_Up,
Well, I guess I have to concede to you that the GP's are a "superior"design due to being inundated by your wealth of substantiated facts that the Six series guns are inferior. I guess that's why Ruger only sold about 788,000 of them.
I really would like you to point me in the right direction to read and study the documentation of the "design" issues that the Six series guns had/have. Since I collect the Six series guns (a hobby of mine since I bought my first (a 6" Security Six) in 1974 ) I am interested in learning as much about these revolvers as I can, including all the design flaws that were found, recorded and what the remedy was. I'm very interested in learning more about the well known problem of consistent light firing pin strikes since I have NEVER encounter one. Can you help me understand this problem with documentation or citations from reliable sources?
I've talked to a number of other Six series collectors and none can verify what you claim. Please provide us with verifiable citations/facts of these design flaws and other problems with the Six series guns and I will be the first to post and say that you were right and that you proved me wrong and I will have learned something that I didn't know.
Oh, and in case you didn't realize it, Ruger still makes the Mark series, and if you were to check the internals (and the receiver/barrel assembly), I think you'd find that they are eerily similar be it a Standard model, Mark I, Mark II or a Mark III (I haven't had a chance to examine the FCG of the Mark IV yet, but I'd bet a lot of the parts look basically like the Standard Model/Mark I parts), thusly they still have parts to fix the older models.
Thanks for the forth coming information