wnycollector
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I have seen several posters here and on other boards who have mentioned converting their square butt security sixes to round butts. Would anyone care to share what they used and ~ how much metal they removed Thanks in advance.
Security Six square butt to round butt conversion
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I did mine by getting a set of factory Speed-six grips,fit them onto the sec six and traced the outline onto the frame. I removed very little with a hacksaw and ground it close with a bench grinder,then dressed up with a file and sandpaper. The trick is to not remove too much. Remember that the butt of the gun has a rounded surface.So if you finish to the outline marks that is the beginning of the curved surface. So don't remove down to the lines until you start filing the curve into the surface.
HTH
HTH
Coyote3855
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Sorry to be off-topic, but TW, where did you find factory speed six grips? Thanks, Coyote
dbarale
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I used the same method as TW bryan on mine, just take it slow and check the fit often.
Factory grips can be found on Fleabay or you can also try an ad on http://www.rugerforum.com
Factory grips can be found on Fleabay or you can also try an ad on http://www.rugerforum.com
Confederate
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TWB is right. If you have a round-butt set of grips, you simply put them onto a square-butt gun and score the area outside the grips with a sharp, hard metal object or a black felt marker. Then remove the grips. At that point, I use a metal grinder and simply remove the metal, remembering to turn it over every 15-20 seconds.
My grinder has two stones, course and medium. Afterwards a file touches it up nicely. Sandpaper does so even better.
You also don't need the old grips. Just take the gun and put it down against the new grips and you'll get a good idea what needs to be removed. You can use a black marker to draw an approximation.
My grinder has two stones, course and medium. Afterwards a file touches it up nicely. Sandpaper does so even better.
You also don't need the old grips. Just take the gun and put it down against the new grips and you'll get a good idea what needs to be removed. You can use a black marker to draw an approximation.
wnycollector
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thanks gents!
Living in California, where you can no longer buy a Security Six from a dealer (they can only be sold as a private-party transfer), and where Security Sixes can no longer be brought in from another state, it pains me to see anybody making that kind of modification.
JNewell
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Another example.
Confederate
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Nice job, JNewell. You do the scoring on the back?
ImARugerFan
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Dealers can't sell revolvers in CA?????
JNewell
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Confederate - Yes - thanks.
Confederate
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I pulled out some rubber grips earlier today that were designed for snubby Security-/Service-Sixes. I put them on a snubby I had and it almost worked perfectly, but the datgum things had finger grooves. Looked nice, too, on the revolver, but I just can't get my hand to fit those finger grooves at the bottom. So close, but no cigar. (I'll try to post a photo tomorrow.)
In the end, you just can't beat those Compac Pachmayers. They look and feel great.
In the end, you just can't beat those Compac Pachmayers. They look and feel great.
Gator
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Sure, Brownell's even sells a hardened steel guide that you can use. But be careful of the serial number, you can not remove it and if it is close to either edge you can't completely round butt the gun.
papajohn
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"In the end, you just can't beat those Compac Pachmayrs. They look and feel great."
Amen to that! Nearly all my teaching guns have worn them, and my current house gun, a 3" 65-3, also wears them. I have small hands and long fingers, and they work well with nearly any smallish hand. I can even shoot magnums out of that gun without pain, something few other grips allow.
I rounded-butted my 4" 686 years ago, so I could carry it more easily, and a few of the female officers on my department fell in love with the way it felt, after using those huge Magna stocks that came on the issue guns. When we went to autos a lot of us bought our old 681's ($100!) from the dept, and I did a half-dozen more RB conversions, and most of them wound up with the Compac Pachmayr's on them. A lot of folks are unhappy with S & W's decision to stop making square-butt revolvers, but to me, it was a logical step, they were just saving a lot of us an extra step to make the gun more concealable.
Papajohn
Amen to that! Nearly all my teaching guns have worn them, and my current house gun, a 3" 65-3, also wears them. I have small hands and long fingers, and they work well with nearly any smallish hand. I can even shoot magnums out of that gun without pain, something few other grips allow.
I rounded-butted my 4" 686 years ago, so I could carry it more easily, and a few of the female officers on my department fell in love with the way it felt, after using those huge Magna stocks that came on the issue guns. When we went to autos a lot of us bought our old 681's ($100!) from the dept, and I did a half-dozen more RB conversions, and most of them wound up with the Compac Pachmayr's on them. A lot of folks are unhappy with S & W's decision to stop making square-butt revolvers, but to me, it was a logical step, they were just saving a lot of us an extra step to make the gun more concealable.
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