As with all Ruger firearms, the Security-Six revolvers were robustly designed with large, heavy-duty parts for durability and to allow for investment casting. Ruger used investment casting for most parts in an effort to hold down production costs. The corporation's earlier designs had been Colt Peacemaker-style single-action revolvers. The introduction of the Security-Six and its variants marked Sturm Ruger's first attempt to enter the double-action revolver market. Smith & Wesson and Colt at the time dominated the medium frame law enforcement double action revolver contracts. Despite being popular with civilians, Bill Ruger wanted to get into law enforcement and security contracts. Development and history Īs far back as 1966, Ruger designers Harry Sefried and Henry Into began working on the company's first double-action revolver. These revolvers were marketed to law enforcement duty issue, military, and civilian self-defense markets. It really doesn't matter, since The Factory didn't record all the individual bits used on any particular gun anyway, so there is no documentation for most of those with the possible exception of some particular grip frames or panels, and these only occasionally.Īll this only serves to keep us on our toes and remember that with Ruger, never say never.The Ruger Security-Six and its variants, the Service-Six and Speed-Six are a product line of double-action revolvers introduced in 1972 and manufactured until 1988 by Sturm, Ruger & Co. There is no real way to sort these aberrations out, but in most cases they can be identified as "suspicious" if that matters to someone. And of course there is always the potential for the "screwdriver variations" arising from easily-swapped parts that muddy the gun's actual date of origin, either "early" or "late". There will always be the occasional "late shipped" gun having bits and pieces that were released considerably after the gun's serial number might indicate, or the occasional gun wearing some older bits from way earlier production that just floated to the top of the "parts bin" at final assembly.
He can, for instance, occasionally come pretty close to revealing within a month's time when certain features/parts were changed in a run of a particular model. His serial number breakouts are considerably more precise than anything Ruger has put out, and his discussion of which parts were used when is further informative. Knowing the month as well as the year certainly helps since the various "type" configurations of many of the Old Models are pretty well known and documented in Chet15's Red Eagle News Exchange Reference of Ruger Firearms.
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