Ad from January 1980 for Ruger Six series

Never owned or shot one but they look nice.

Single best, most reliable, durable, trouble free double action ever made.

hittman said:

Single best, most reliable, durable, trouble free double action ever made.

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What you said!

I suppose I would tend to agree with hittmans post

Gee Ron,, ya think you agree???

Mine from 1975.

They have to be one of the best guns that Ruger ever made. Mine is a stainless and like new.

And one of the videos I've seen shows a fellow who disassembles one with only a dime - and that's to loosen the grip screw.

Biggest complaint about the Six Series double actions is that they don't make them any more.
Amazing to realize the first ones are now C&R eligible.

I have a Security Six Stainless from the early 1980's. It's definitely a keeper.

I have a few of the DA "Six" series guns. When the GP was introduced,, for a VERY long time, I never saw the need for any of them while my Six series gun were around. Well, I finally did try a Match Champion, then the 10mm, & now a Super GP-100. Both are very good but the Security-Six is still top notch in my book. As I like to say often; "Built like they were meant to be!"

I bought a 150-series gun when they first came out. Wonderful piece, fit my hand perfectly, was great to shoot.

A few years later I got the hots for another Ruger whatever, and traded the Six off. Later realized I missed it and bought a new 152-series version. Simply wasn't the same. The change in the grip frame was just not right for me. One of my few gun-related mistakes.

akbluz said:

And one of the videos I've seen shows a fellow who disassembles one with only a dime - and that's to loosen the grip screw.

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I don't know where my dad got the notion, maybe from an old ad, but he used to say that the Security Six was designed to be field stripped with only the one thing you were certain to have with you in the field - the rim of a cartridge. That's assuming the hammer strut retainer pin didn't get lost at some prior point - it seems to be missing from 80% of the ones I handle nowadays.

A paperclip makes a decent replacement for the hammer strut retainer pin. I bet a roll pin could be put in the grips and serve the same purpose as the original

weaselmeatgravy said:

I don't know where my dad got the notion, maybe from an old ad, but he used to say that the Security Six was designed to be field stripped with only the one thing you were certain to have with you in the field - the rim of a cartridge. That's assuming the hammer strut retainer pin didn't get lost at some prior point - it seems to be missing from 80% of the ones I handle nowadays.

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Ruger actually said this and I have done it it the past. In fact when I show my Six Series guns I have an annex display with one taken down to the main components and one piece in the display is labled "Take Down Tool" and it is an empty .357 Mag case. Behind the the display is the portion of the manual showing how to take it apart using it's own internal parts.

A long (1/2 to 3/4 inch) 1/16" roll pin works fine as well as a short skinny nail works as a sub for the copper retainer pin that came with the guns.

Oh, I'm aware that anything can be used for a retainer pin, just saying that field stripping with nothing but a cartridge implies that you have something to use and the factory pin often went missing.

Duh, my bad. I'm just so use to having them missing I just automatically grab one from the ones that I've made and store with my other Six series parts and make sure I put it in the grip. I really wonder if, back in the day, when someone bought one new (and of course did not read the manual), and took the grips off and the pin fell out and they picked it up and said "wonder where this came from" and threw it away when they saw the gun worked without it and they never looked in the parts list to see what it was. Or it fell out and the owner didn't see it fall out and never thought a thing about why there was a small hole on the one grip panel.

I have the Security Six in 2 3/4 and 4". Still looking a Service Six in 9mm.
Great revolvers but sadly not profitable for Ruger.
Wilbur