A New Old Handgun

M67

M67

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First off, there's not picture of a Busse knife here (sorry ;))

In the Busse neck of the woods, we get a lot of threads about concealed carry pistols, and just handguns in general. Well, my Grandad passed a while ago and one of this guns was a Ruger Security Six which he used as a concealed carry pistol and used it for trapping, in fact, I think he always had this thing on him. Well, after his passing, it was lost for rougly two years until his van was cleaned out. And what do you know, it was in the glove box, sitting in its leather holster.

The holster caused more wear and a little pitting. This Security Six is old (ish), I dated the serial number to 1974.

Anyway, I just recently recieved it (couple days ago) and I didn't know how much hell this has been through, so I took it apart and gave it a good cleaning.

Hope you enjoy seeing a naked, dirty, stripped down, 36 year old Ruger with a lot of good years still in her :D. I don't know the names to all the parts, so..... don't grill me too bad if I sound somewhat unsophisticated ;)

First off, the grips needed to be taken off so I can get to the spring and pin.


And this is what the spring looks like


And this is where the pin comes in. With happer cocked, the pin can be inserted and the spring's tension in controlled, allowing it to be removed.


With the spring out, the hammer can be taken out


And with the hammer gone, the trigger guard and trigger can be removed


Then the cylinder slides out


Here's everything I took off (I could have went further, but I felt there was no need)


And fast foward several minutes, and shazzam! Back together :eek:


Here's a better look at the finish



I haven't got to shoot it yet, I plan to do it tomorrow. The cleaning REALLY helped. Everything was smooth before, but after everything is crisp and the trigger is nice and broken in, VERY crisp. And I don't think I'll re blue it. I like the worn finish, you look at it and know it was a "Grandpapy gun".

Hope you enjoyed the pics, and just so I don't get sued, these are not instructions, just helpful reference pics ;) And I WASN'T shooting and drinking, I was drinking and disassembling, it's different.

In case you're wondering, that's not a Ruger holster, it a Smith and Wesson and the lube/cleaner I used was Strikehold.

Anyway, if you have a gun that's been passed down and well loved, feel free to post. I love the story behind family and old firearms.


Oh, since it's getting that time of year again, here's to an early Happy Thanksgiving
 
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Great job! That looks like a beautiful old six shooter. Definitely a sentimental piece for the collection.
 
COOL,

Loved it ! :thumbup:

Yup that's a Security Six, and you got the dis-assembly correct. I've owned one since the early 80's, still got the box, receipt and manual. It's my favorite center-fire shooter, mine has a six inch barrel. Sees mostly .38 Spl.

Here it is with it's little buddy and some Busse content.
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They're built like tanks !

No heirlooms from my family, but I got this from a friend. It was her fathers kit gun, .22lr, she called to see If I could tell her what it might be worth, "not much, I'll take it" !

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Sweet! :thumbup:

One of our favorite mods used to be to take one of these Rugers and round the butt at the bottom corners to match the profile of the Pachmayr grips for the Speed Six.

It made it a lot easier to carry concealed and you got the benefits of adjustable sights.

It was one potent little pocket rocket.

Ah, the 70s! :cool:

Michael
 
That's cool. With that finish, I'd have said 1926. Just adds character.

I gotta go fondle my Fitz soon. It is hands-down my coolest gun. Wish I had taken pix before it was restored. It was a trashed frame and hacked bbl. Sits in my safe 99.9% of the time. :(
 
Not many guns handed down in my family yet.

I got this S&W model 66 from my Grandfather on my mother's side. My middle name is the same as his first name.........Boom, guess that equals .357 S&W.

He owned this and a .32 Mag little blued S&W that my cousin got (he had the same first name).

Unfortunately, that .32 perished in a house fire right before thanksgiving (Poor cousin, with 7 girls out in the snow in the middle of no where. No clothes, basically nothing got saved but the kids and one vehicle. He lost over 70 guns and bows and knives, including my Grandfather's gun. Thank goodness for miracles thought (he got all his kids and wife out, and I think got two photo albums on the way out the door). He also had insurance (which means new house but very little value for the guns and bows).

Well, I still have this one. I carry it occasionally, and love to shoot it. (I still have the original wood grips, but shooting it with them was not comfortable at all. I will eventually like to get a custom wood set).

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The knife is my first, and right now only custom knife. Made my by Uncle. A custom knife maker out of California named Glen Hornby (Sadly, deceased long before his time).

He was a member of the LAPD and did stints on their SWAT, Bomb Squad, and worked narcotics for a long time.


My dad has more than a few guns that he will pass down, one of which was his own father's .30-30.


Love guns with family history.
 
Nice old shoot'in iron bro. :thumbup: Now go out and make grandad proud and shoot something. :)
 
Those are great old guns. My brother in law was able to negotiate with a fella one night around a campfire...and picked up a Security Six for $75 and a case of beer.

I keep telling him I'll give him $100 for it...:) He knows better. He is taking that thing to the grave.



You did the right thing here too. Just a good cleaning and oiling. Don't reblue it and cover up all of that character.
 
Thanks for the refresher course, just picked up a SP 101 367, shot it the other day and killed the centered of the target. Now i can disassemble it, i've had a few double action rugers, great hand guns.
 
congrats on a great heirloom!
thanks for cleaning it up with the intent to use/carry it.
the security 6 was a great model.
 
I have one of those old Security Sixes- they are fine weapons. Mine is a 6" barreled version that was a Virginia State Trooper's duty weapon before they transitioned to autos. It has a wonderful trigger, and is exceptionally accurate. I'm glad you found that one and cleaned it up before it disappeared forever!
 
jimmyjones said:
COOL,

Loved it ! :thumbup:

Yup that's a Security Six, and you got the dis-assembly correct. I've owned one since the early 80's, still got the box, receipt and manual. It's my favorite center-fire shooter, mine has a six inch barrel. Sees mostly .38 Spl.
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Yeah, this one will probably see a lot of .38s at first. This being my first .357, I don't have that much ammo for it, yet :D

That's cool that you still have the box, reciept, and the manual, :thumbup:. I might have to ask some family if they have them.

Bigfattyt said:
Not many guns handed down in my family yet.
He owned this and a .32 Mag little blued S&W that my cousin got (he had the same first name).

Unfortunately, that .32 perished in a house fire right before thanksgiving (Poor cousin, with 7 girls out in the snow in the middle of no where. No clothes, basically nothing got saved but the kids and one vehicle. He lost over 70 guns and bows and knives, including my Grandfather's gun. Thank goodness for miracles thought (he got all his kids and wife out, and I think got two photo albums on the way out the door). He also had insurance (which means new house but very little value for the guns and bows).

Love guns with family history.
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I'm glad everyone got out alright and at least he managed to get a fmily album or two out.

That's one thing I'm worried about, my dad has had a fireproof gun safe for 8ish years, but it won't do much good if it's not in the house. It's been in storage at a friends since he bought it.

And yes, guns with history, same way with a knife with history, there's just something special about them.


d762nato said:
Nice old shoot'in iron bro. :thumbup: Now go out and make grandad proud and shoot something. :)
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Don't worry, I will. Too bad it's supposed to rain for the next couple days here, but I might take it out anyway. It's just water and I can always take it apart again and clean it.

Tripton said:
Those are great old guns. My brother in law was able to negotiate with a fella one night around a campfire...and picked up a Security Six for $75 and a case of beer.

I keep telling him I'll give him $100 for it...:) He knows better. He is taking that thing to the grave.

You did the right thing here too. Just a good cleaning and oiling. Don't reblue it and cover up all of that character.
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Pretty good deal he got. And I'm glad I'm not the only one who agrees not to re finish it

litew8 said:
Thanks for the refresher course, just picked up a SP 101 367, shot it the other day and killed the centered of the target. Now i can disassemble it, i've had a few double action rugers, great hand guns.
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After you said that I had to check out my dad's SP101, and what do you know, it's the same way to take them apart. I had to check my New Model Blackhawk too, and it's close enough to the same way. I love continuity. :D:thumbup:

Good to hear someone can shoot an SP101, I'm pretty good with a handgun (I like to think), and I can't shoot my dad's worth a damn, then again it's a snubnose and has a spurless hammer.

1066vik said:
congrats on a great heirloom!
thanks for cleaning it up with the intent to use/carry it.
the security 6 was a great model.
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I've heard from many that the Security Six was one of the best, most reliable revolvers Ruger ever made. I plan on using it for many many years. And possibly later in life I can pass it on and it'll still be in working condition.




Thanks for all the kind words folks




Oh, we need more pics, come on, post 'um if you got 'um
 
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Nice job M67 - With your care, I have no doubt your son will enjoy it one day too :thumbup:
 
After you said that I had to check out my dad's SP101, and what do you know, it's the same way to take them apart. I had to check my New Model Blackhawk too, and it's close enough to the same way. I love continuity. :D:thumbup:

Good to hear someone can shoot an SP101, I'm pretty good with a handgun (I like to think), and I can't shoot my dad's worth a damn, then again it's a snubnose and has a spurless hammer.

In all honesty, i did pull the hammer back on each shot, 2 1/4 inch barrel.

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Well, just got done shooting it. Thought I'd try to sight it in today. But it's roughly 31 degrees and raining with the tree limbs starting to freeze.

I was roughly 20 yards away (may be far for a snubnose, but it's a lot closer than what I usually shoot when I'm shooting a handgun)

I fired 23 shots before my hands went numb, my target was a cinder block.




I only managed to hit it a couple times and I couldn't really sight it in because I couldn't tell where the shots were hitting. The ground and the leaves were wet enough so that it swallowed up the bullet, but not enough so that mud would fly. :grumpy:

On well, hopefully I can try later on sometime in the week.

Time to clean it again, and since it's raining I might as well make a beer run and watch First Blood when I get back
 
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