Beat up old Ruger Service-Six.

I got no idea why I wanted this thing other than it was fairly cheap for these days. It's been rode hard and put up wet...several times. Maybe that's why.

"This thing" is a 1979 Ruger Police Service-Six, in 357, 4" barrel and service stocks. I guess I felt sorry for it and let it come home with me. I gave it a good flush with Gunscrubber, and a couple of drops of oil, ran some patches through the bore and cylinder, then Flitzed the exterior a couple of times, then wiped it down with an oily rag and it almost looks presentable in polite company. Maybe...it's still sort of rough.





Maybe you just can't have too many 4", 38/357's?

Proving that if you muck around long enough, you can always make a bad thing worse, I was bored yesterday, so I rummaged around in my junk drawer and found an old cold blue marker. So I sat down to watch some TV with it, and a hot wet rag. I used the wet rag to scrub the grips down and stripped almost all the color out of them. Then wiped the gun down to dry metal and started to "color in" the worn spots. I really wasn't worried about messing anything up, (1) I couldn't look much worse, and (2) in my experience it's not hard to remove the cold blue if I want to.

When I got through I wiped the whole thing down with a silicone rag. The color came back to the grips and the rest of the gun didn't look any worse.





At least I got an idea of what it's supposed to look like.

But how does it shoot?

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I haven't shot it yet, so I got no idea really. I suspect it will shoot just about like any 38/357 medium frame revolver. There really isn't a lot of difference between the brands IMHO. My old eyes are more limiting than the gun is.

I'll probably get it to the range one day this week.