I carry a 1944 vintage 1911A1 or my 1980 vintage S&W 19-4 four inch whenever I'm out and about.
It still looks quite decent even after forty one years of continuous use. Still tight as a drum and it's smoother than ever. I've fired over 150,000 rounds through it, mostly target loads when shooting competition. I've killed several deer with it and used it in a self defense situation where luckily I did not need to fire it, the mere presence of it defused the situation. I still have it and will never get rid of it. Anything timed or rapid fire I shot double action only. I competed many years with it in Bullseye Competition, Falling Plates, and running deer shoots. A local gunsmith put a flourescent orange insert into the front sight. Replaced the grips and did a trigger job myself replacing the factory springs with an after market Wolfe spring kit. I bought a new Security Six, 6 inch in 1976 which has the 200th year stamping. I've seen some brand loyalty that defied logic and I've seen some that seems to be rooted in actual experience. That may skew the collective opinion about a particular model but I think over time it tends to level out. People are reluctant to part with good guns and more likely to sell off lessor ones. The S&W L & N frames are good guns and I've seen some very high mileage examples of those guns as well.Īs for the comment about the hazard of buying a "bad" used gun, there's some truth to that as well.
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That being said, the Six series Rugers have overall.proven to be very reliable in the long run. Mtgun44's point is well taken, if you put anything up on a pedestal you're eventually going to be disappointed. Anything mechanical can fail and long term use will take it's toll on any tool. (with a slight favor for the Service-Six[smilie=s:) I agree they are not magical but they do have an excellent track record and a very faithful group of followers. In any event, I'm a big fan of the "Six" series Rugers and the GP-100's. It's certainly a spectacular failure but I don't believe it's a design flaw. I wonder if that Security-Six pictured above suffered the same fate ? They also repaired or replaced any that they received with that failure. They corrected that issue in their manufacturing process. Turned out to be stress corrosion cracking at the barrel threads and was traced to the assembly lubricant they were using at the time. Ruger had some problems with the Stainless Steel Redhawks losing their barrels in a similar fashion. One hazard that comes from buying used guns is that people tend to keep the best ones for life, while the less than perfect ones float around from owner to owner over the years souring peoples' opinions. I am inclined to believe that Ruger made a run of these that might have that problem, but if yours isn't one of them it's probably not too bad.Įveryone loves their security six, service six, or speed six revolver but I have personally had pretty bad luck with them. Under normal firing conditions, that is not the kind of failure that happens from an over pressure load. Of the many explanations given to me, the one that made the most sense to me is that when installing barrels there was a guy who would instead of cleaning up the threads properly just muscled it on there with a cheater bar.
That happened to me once too, and Ruger responded similarly. L-frames are pretty stout guns, too.īUT - Ruger sent him a new GP100 because they don't have the parts to repair it. "The Ruger will still be shooting when the S&W is worn out." Sec Sixs are really goodĪn acquaintance recently returned his Sec Six SS to Ruger because the barrel failed at theįront of the frame.