Unwanted Ruger revolver

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I saw this Ruger DAO Police Service Six for auction listed and relisted for 7 months with no bids. The price was a little high, not listed as NYCPD special contract(rare), it's a DAO and 38spl vs 357 which accounts for no bids I guess. The serial number was in the range of the GF-84 NYCPD special contract run which was very short. I took a chance because I'm a sucker for a nice service revolver and got a Ruger letter confirming my suspicion it was indeed made for NYCPD. So, I adopted this unwanted revolver and bought her a pair of new shoes too. IMG_1703.JPG
 

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It’s good that you adopted this revolver.
I really hope it turns out to be a great and reliable shooter.

I walked away from a Ruger Speed Six DAO .357 at my LGS to “think about it”. The guy behind the counter said “someone chopped the hammer off”, but to me it appeared very well done. It was a Consignment Gun. I went home, researched it, decided to buy it, though the price was $600 but I thought I could negotiate. It didn’t matter though. The gun sold less than an hour after I walked away.
 
Cool outcome for that orphan.

In the end - are you completely happy with the all-in cost relative to what you've found out?

It's so doggone purposeful looking I'd be hard pressed to pass on it regardless.

Todd.
 
ApacheCoTodd said:
Cool outcome for that orphan.

In the end - are you completely happy with the all-in cost relative to what you've found out?

It's so doggone purposeful looking I'd be hard pressed to pass on it regardless.

Todd.
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Yes, completely and very happy. A new 4" GP100 would've cost as much. It's condition and rarity make it worth it to me. Being a factory overrun it didn't get the wear and tear another GF-84 that was carried on the streets would've. The military contract models, USPS Speed Six and 9mm models go for silly money. This Police Service Six and the 3" Speed Six were the last of the Six Series to be made before Ruger switched to the GPNY & SPNY. I've got the NYCPD 3" Speed Six (GS-83) too so now I've got both. Their competition for the NYC market was the Model 64 (NY-1). Sorry, a simple "yes" would've sufficed but I get carried away sometimes.
 
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If I'd have seen that for sale around here (Phoenix area) I'd have bought it and I don't need any more guns. (QUOTE
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There must be some floating around the Southwest since the Ruger overruns were shipped to Davidson's West in Prescott, AZ. I bought one NYCPD revolver from a seller in Phoenix and one from Oklahoma.
 
Cool find! I certainly wouldn’t say no if I was shown a nice NYCPD gun like yours :thumbup:.

I’m amazed how often NY authorities hamstring their cops with DA only guns (or striker guns now) with obscenely heavy trigger pulls. It’s a wonder more bullets aren’t missing their intended targets and striking passers by. :what:

Stay safe.
 
Riomouse911 said:
Cool find! I certainly wouldn’t say no if I was shown a nice NYCPD gun like yours :thumbup:.

I’m amazed how often NY authorities hamstring their cops with DA only guns (or striker guns now) with obscenely heavy trigger pulls. It’s a wonder more bullets aren’t missing their intended targets and striking passers by. :what:

Stay safe.
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The switch to a DAO revolver was because a cop named Melvin Yearwood put a cocked Model 10 to a kid's head and BOOM! That happened in 1985. As of July 1987, all new hires got the Ruger Service Six or the Smith and Wesson 64 in DAO. . Officers who had the blued revolvers that could be cocked were allowed to keep them. They were a real status symbol. Recruits from the last class to get them used to call the guys with 6 months less time on the job “rookies”.

The switch the the 9MM was extremely sudden. Literally three days before a 2500 member recruit class went in. The job was stocked with revolvers for those new officers. When the 9MM was adopted those guns had to go somewhere so I’m sure they were sold to distributors for a very good price.

I bought a blued Service Six that shipped to the NYPD in January 1987, the last class to get them. Truthfully, the job could have kept the blued Model 10 and Service Six and just modified them to shoot DAO. They had a contract with Ruger and S&W so they had to stay with them.
 
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I picked up a 3" Ruger GP100 DAO a few years back. It turned out to be a RCMP return import. I bought it for a shooter and the double action trigger pull was quite heavy and gritty despite its age and apparent heavy use. As I had a blown up 6" GP100, I swapped the trigger from the carcass into the DAO. It makes that 3" GP100 much more shootable for me.
I sold the DAO trigger to a fellow on this board wiith the screen name "Deaf Smith". I believe he passed away about that same time.

I like your DAO Speed Six and would love to run across one for myself! I bet it shoots as good as it looks, too!
 
Homerboy said:
The switch to a DAO revolver was because a cop named Melvin Yearwood put a cocked Model 10 to a kid's head and BOOM! That happened in 1985. As of July 1987, all new hires got the Ruger Service Six or the Smith and Wesson 64 in DAO. . Officers who had the blued revolvers that could be cocked were allowed to keep them. They were a real status symbol. Recruits from the last class to get them used to call the guys with 6 months less time on the job “rookies”.

The switch the the 9MM was extremely sudden. Literally three days before a 2500 member recruit class went in. The job was stocked with revolvers for those new officers. When the 9MM was adopted those guns had to go somewhere so I’m sure they were sold to distributors for a very good price.

I bought a blued Service Six that shipped to the NYPD in January 1987, the last class to get them. Truthfully, the job could have kept the blued Model 10 and Service Six and just modified them to shoot DAO. They had a contract with Ruger and S&W so they had to stay with them.
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It’s always a blanket order affecting the masses because of the actions of an individual. The officer wasn’t too smart to pull a stunt like that, I hope he was dealt with appropriately by the agency and by the justice system.

I get the DAO rationale for revolvers, it makes sense. The vast majority of defense shootings with DA revolvers are fired DA, so preventing a SA cocking by an officer/deputy under stress isn’t that egregious.

Now the ten-ton Glock trigger (j/k, it’s 8 lbs for NY 1, 11 lbs for NY 2 I believe ) is awful. I can’t think of a single good reason for mandating such a heavy trigger pull on a striker gun... but NY is it’s own beast.

As for long-trigger-pull autos, I have a DAO Beretta 96 Centurion that has a long, but amazingly smooth and light, DAO firing system. It would remind me of a smooth DA revolver like the OP’s new Ruger. :)

Stay safe.
 
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