Bass Ackward
Active Member
Ahhh, the winter bug bit me, so I went to the local shop. Was looking at one of those GP100s in 44 Special & got tell ya, holding it, well …. it's like being 19 again and winning a dinner / evening with Rachel Welch. It is so sweet in the hand
I was about to pull the trigger and then this guy walks over (Ruger Tech) & asks me what I think. I told him & what I wanted to do with it & he shook his head. He walked me down the display case and pointed at the Blackhawk 45 Colt. (plow handle) I asked to see it & he said not THAT one, get the convertible one beside it, tighter specs. After the usual conversation & haggling, (I dreamt about a Scofield conversion like Doug's), I bought the darn thing. And ….. I said good bye to Rachel (that was really hard to do) & …. I left. A word of advise, avoid looking at those blued, 5" GP100s if you can or it'll cost ya.
OMG, I don't know how this is for alignment / gonna shoot, but it is the most dimensionally correct & UNIFORM factory handgun I have ever bought. (or seen) So close, I didn't trust my measurements. I have slugged it three times now since cleaning & measured 4.505. (It could be .4506) No thread choke thank goodness as my 44 Special did have when I got it. The throats are polished, (that means absent of marks) with NO reamer marks, no marks of ANY kind! And a pound slug in EACH throat has .4515-6. Did you just read over that like it was nothin? Go back and read that again cause it ain't never happened to me !!!
You dream about this as a manufacturing standard, but I NEVER saw this before. The Colt's chambers are the same, polished way to include the ramps for gosh sakes. SAME size throats as the other cylinder. (Exactly) And TIGHT? (coarse it will loosen up after firing) Took me 20 minutes to get the ACP cylinder into position / installed. And I had to use a tapered, round stone on the cylinder base pin hole to allow the base pin to enter cause of a burr. I kept looking at the name on the gun several times over during this entire process. Yes, it says …. Ruger. Only flaw is those plastic grip panels that are too small & don't fit for ____, ( 4 letter cuss word).
Can't shoot it today. And tomorrow's Sunday, but I will just have to pray for forgiveness tonight & invite God to the range if he ain't busy tomorrow. If it's anything special, I'll let you know. Gotta go load some jacketed now.
I was about to pull the trigger and then this guy walks over (Ruger Tech) & asks me what I think. I told him & what I wanted to do with it & he shook his head. He walked me down the display case and pointed at the Blackhawk 45 Colt. (plow handle) I asked to see it & he said not THAT one, get the convertible one beside it, tighter specs. After the usual conversation & haggling, (I dreamt about a Scofield conversion like Doug's), I bought the darn thing. And ….. I said good bye to Rachel (that was really hard to do) & …. I left. A word of advise, avoid looking at those blued, 5" GP100s if you can or it'll cost ya.
OMG, I don't know how this is for alignment / gonna shoot, but it is the most dimensionally correct & UNIFORM factory handgun I have ever bought. (or seen) So close, I didn't trust my measurements. I have slugged it three times now since cleaning & measured 4.505. (It could be .4506) No thread choke thank goodness as my 44 Special did have when I got it. The throats are polished, (that means absent of marks) with NO reamer marks, no marks of ANY kind! And a pound slug in EACH throat has .4515-6. Did you just read over that like it was nothin? Go back and read that again cause it ain't never happened to me !!!
You dream about this as a manufacturing standard, but I NEVER saw this before. The Colt's chambers are the same, polished way to include the ramps for gosh sakes. SAME size throats as the other cylinder. (Exactly) And TIGHT? (coarse it will loosen up after firing) Took me 20 minutes to get the ACP cylinder into position / installed. And I had to use a tapered, round stone on the cylinder base pin hole to allow the base pin to enter cause of a burr. I kept looking at the name on the gun several times over during this entire process. Yes, it says …. Ruger. Only flaw is those plastic grip panels that are too small & don't fit for ____, ( 4 letter cuss word).
Can't shoot it today. And tomorrow's Sunday, but I will just have to pray for forgiveness tonight & invite God to the range if he ain't busy tomorrow. If it's anything special, I'll let you know. Gotta go load some jacketed now.