Cheapshooter
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As said by many previously, don't see the point of a round designed for an semi auto being used in a revolver. Why not a 41Magnum?
Looks like it has a full 357 length cylinder. Was hoping for a 45 auto/10mm length cylinder like a Smith.
It will allow for long loading the 10mm with heavy bullets, a plus for the hunter/adventurous handloader.
You can always buy the 4 inch and have a gunsmith cut the barrel down to 3 inches. I thought about doing that years ago with the 6 inch GP100's because the 5 inch GP's are hard to come by.Cool. I’d pick one up if I didn’t already have a lew horton 610.
If they come out with a 3” version I’d probably get one.
I think that's coming. With a .44 Special and now a 10mm GP100, Ruger has moved into turning the GP into a big bore capable revolver.Now if they did a GP100 in 41 mag that would definitely get my money.
Jeff Quinn of Gunblastdotcom apparently was given one or bought one from Ruger months ago and had a gunsmith ream the chambers out to accept 10mm Magnum, which is a lengthened 10mm Auto case and a cartridge I didn't know existed.
So, I think Ruger is keeping the long cylinder for two reasons: ease of manufacturing and in the even that some want the 10mm Magnum, they can have people do that work for them.
Dan-O Cool. I’d pick one up if I didn’t already have a lew horton 610.
If they come out with a 3” version I’d probably get one.
Another issue that was likely a consideration is that length makes it legal for sale in Canada.Dunno about that. I think Ruger got the barrel length right on this model. 4.2" seems optimum as far as keeping velocity up without sacrificing portability.
"Magnum"-level cartridges in wheelguns show significant ballistic depletion (i.e., loss of fps/fpe) when barrels are chopped below 4" (snubbies).
Here is a chart from Buffalobore's website where they actually use different length test guns and tell you which guns they used to show velocity differences. I know they are accurate because I have chronoed the same results myself, and sometimes they are even lower than what I got.
You're cherry-picking what are atypical hot loads from a 'boutique' ammo-maker.