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Personally, I'm saying don't convert it for all the reasons I've mentioned, purely out of experience. Bluntly, your neighbor is wrong. Traditional half cock actions are much crisper and smoother and capable of much better trigger pulls than transfer bar actions. That much is pure fact. The "safety conversion" adds new parts, replaces old parts on what will be at least a 35yr old sixgun. That is guaranteed to add some roughness that years of use smoothed out. The addition of the transfer bar kills that lovely trigger pull and add one more part to drag inside the frame.
It brings down resale almost universally. Collectors will never pay full price for a converted model. Ruger stamps a mark on them that's a big turnoff for those guys. Shooters will never pay full price for one converted that does not have the original parts with it. A great many shooters go to the effort and expense to seek out replacement parts to convert them back. Usually costing at least $150. Your neighbor is wrong again.
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