Ruger Security Six 4"

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This week, I found a blued Ruger Security Six 4" at the LGS. It had holster wear at the muzzle and cylinder, but mechanically was fine. It actually looked a lot worse than it was. The gun also sported some old school Jay Scott imitation mother of pearl (I've heard them referred to as "mother of toilet seat") grips.

It looked like it needed a home, so I made an offer of 325, and my offer was accepted.

I got it home and cleaned it up and touched up the holster wear with Oxpho cold bluing.

I think she turned out rather nice, and will now keep my other Security Six 4" company. The other one is a mint condition gun I found at a different shop about 6 months ago for $399.

Heres some pics.

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After (with flash):

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With my other SS:

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I like them a lot.
I just bought a Police Service Six that needs a bit of love too. So, to go with it, I bought a 98% Security Six with 6" barrel. I'll post some "buddy" pictures soon.

Would you care to say exactly how you "spot blued" the needy places on your Security Six? Clean first with acetone, or ?? Then, rub the bluing on (technique?).
 
Here is mine.

The top one is a 150 series I sold to a good friend who always wanted one.

The bottom one is a 4 " issued to me by the PD in the early 80's and they allowed me to buy it when I retired.

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Would you care to say exactly how you "spot blued" the needy places on your Security Six? Clean first with acetone, or ?? Then, rub the bluing on (technique?).
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Yep. I degrease with acetone, then apply the cold blue with with cotton balls and rub into the metal (and I wear nitrile disposable gloves). I then wipe off the cold bluing with paper towels and buff with 0000 steel wool. Repeat as necessary. In fact, I'm gonna touch up the very end of the barrel on that Sec Six again, because just did a quickie job, and can get it to blend better with another application.

There are some good You Tube videos out there for using Oxpho cold blue. Some people heat up the metal a little bit before applying. I don't, because I just haven't found it to be necessary.
 
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Great find at at a very reasonable price. Cleaned up very nicely too.
 
Who doesn't love the devastating one-shot stop potential of the .357 magnum coupled with a compact but super rugged frame? LOVE ME SOME RUGER 357s!
 
The Security-Six was my first revolver.

Got it in the 70's.

Traded-in a Mauser HsC (Interarms import) for it.

Traded the Ruger for a Remington 788.

Gave the 788 in partial trade for a Browning A-Bolt.

Never missed the HsC or the 788.

Always missed the Ruger.

Replaced it finally with a used low-back 150-series.
Back when there were a lot of Security-Sixes hitting the used-gun market.
Think I paid $149 for it.

Got two of them actually.

Gave one to my wife, and the other to my sister, but retained "visitation rights."

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Keep an eye on that screw on the bottom of the recoil shield.
It comes staked from the factory.
If anybody has messed with it, and it backs out, it will tie up the gun.

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Good deal. My father carried a Service Six during a stint as a deputy in Colorado, at a time when I was doing a one as a street cop in Florida. We didn't know each other at the time, my parents having divorced when I was still little.

We reunited about ten years before he died, which was in 2010. He still had the gun, which went home with me upon his passing. What a solid tank of a sidearm.
 
These have gotten as scarce as hen's teeth since I first started looking for a nice Six-series snubnose... number for sale on Gunbroker has fallen by about half, and price is up by $100-150.
 
I found you have to be careful with these guns, because Ruger will only scrap them and offer a discount on a new gun. They have also been out of production for so long that aftermarket parts are scarce to nonexistent. Even guns parted out seem scarce, especially stainless, model-correct barrels of the desired length and caliber stamping. Without any parachute, so to speak, I think it is best to buy these guns in hand, not online.
 
Yep, they scrapped out my 9mm Speed Six. At least I got a free GP100 3" (that took some doing!), but I would have preferred keeping the 9mm Six. I do love the GP100 now after a loving F&B and spring kit.
 
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I found you have to be careful with these guns, because Ruger will only scrap them and offer a discount on a new gun. They have also been out of production for so long that aftermarket parts are scarce to nonexistent. Even guns parted out seem scarce, especially stainless, model-correct barrels of the desired length and caliber stamping. Without any parachute, so to speak, I think it is best to buy these guns in hand, not online.
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I would take that a step further than buying in person. If you do not know your way around a revolver don't buy old revolvers. When you buy a gun online it is no different than buying in person if you do not let yourself get trapped. Pay with a credit card and make sure the gun works before you fill out the 4473.

I do not buy guns of any kind under an as is contract online, not even a new gun. If they do not want to use the gunbroker payment system they can keep their gun. I honor my part of the contract by paying on full. I am going to make sure the seller honors his part of the contract by delivering a gun in working condition as advertised. No, I am not paying 3% extra for the right of refusal.
 
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By insisting on your own terms, despite the norm for gun auctions, you really narrow the field of what you can own. I think you have to experience selling a few guns before being quite so smug about how they should be sold. Abusing your credit card is easier said than done. Do that once or twice, and your account gets closed. That would be exactly the kind of clown a seller, yes an ethical one, would dread.

My worst investment had to be test fired before determining that the barrel wouldn't group in any acceptable way. Another with fixed sights requires quite a bit of Kentucky windage to hit anything precisely. These problems are not readily apparent, although the bad barrel did actually have rather shallow grooves or low lying lands in the rifling, possibly shot a whole bunch. It is really subtle though, because another gun of the same model but apparently unfired appears very much the same and shoots okay since.
 
RealGun said:
By insisting on your own terms, despite the norm for gun auctions, you really narrow the field of what you can own. I think you have to experience selling a few guns before being quite so smug about how they should be sold. Abusing your credit card is easier said than done. Do that once or twice, and your account gets closed. That would be exactly the kind of clown a seller, yes an ethical one, would dread.

My worst investment had to be test fired before determining that the barrel wouldn't group in any acceptable way. Another with fixed sights requires quite a bit of Kentucky windage to hit anything precisely. These problems are not readily apparent, although the bad barrel did actually have rather shallow grooves or low lying lands in the rifling, possibly shot a whole bunch. It is really subtle though, because another gun of the same model but apparently unfired appears very much the same and shoots okay since.
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I am doing business by the norms of a gun auction. People that want to cheat the auction site will cheat you. Daddy told me not to buy a pig in a poke. That was sound advice. There close 300,000,000 guns in the US I do not have to deal with "smug" sellers.

In regards to the credit card that is why I insist on using the auction site payment system. They handle thousands of payments every day with a hitch. Using a credit card to make sure you got what you paid for is not abusing the credit card. You simply using a service you pay for priveldge of using one way or another. I have never refused a gun. Every gun I have bought online came as promised. But do my part to avoid shysters.
 
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Wish Ruger had kept the Security Six in their catalog.

MY 1st revolver and love them.

Congratulations
 
You got a great deal on that revolver. They are getting harder to find and the prices keep increasing.

I purchased a 6" Security Six last month from an auction. It makes my GP100 feel unwieldy and bulky. Ruger should have kept this revolver in its lineup.
 
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