Ruger goes green with their newest vent barrel 22/45 LITE
So this just came out. Kinda snazzy. I plan to play with one at SHOT Show in January.
You know a zombie writer has to love green…
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Meet Ruger’s new 10-shot rimfire G100 revolver
For generations Ruger’s lines of double-action six shooters, from the Security Six and Service Six to the Redhawk and GP100, have been some of the best bargains in the wheel gun market. Well it seems that Sturm, Ruger has decided to keep giving the public what they want and now has an upgraded version of the GP100 built plinkers, small-bore target, and small game hunters in mind.
Ruger has been making modern wheel guns since 1971, which means they have had over forty years behind them to get this thing right. Up until 1988, Ruger’s best-selling double action revolver series was built around the Speed Six and Security Six model wheel guns. The company made these for military, police, and security forces around the world as well as for private sales for home defense and sporting purposes.
Although sweet, the entire Speed/Security/Police Six line by 1988 when the new GP-100/SP-101 was firmly established. The beefy GP100, designed from the beginning to fire .357 Magnum loads, was a new take on Bill Ruger’s massive .44 Magnum Ruger Redhawk and used the same effective crane-lock cylinder. The grips, of smaller size than the Six series, used a hybrid grip of Santoprene– a soft and shock absorbing rubber type of material– inserts and plastic or wooden (goncalo alves wood or rosewood) outers, giving these pieces a very distinctive look.
In the past three decades, Ruger has been churning out these GP100s in .38/357 while augmenting that uber popular six-shooter loading with .327 Federal.
Now the company has thrown a new chambering out just in time for Christmas.
Shopping for Old 22s
With the craze for black rifles, all things 5.56, and ‘high-capacity’, there may be no better time to shop for great deals on old rimfire rifles. Odds are there are a few dozen of them gathering dust within just a few miles of your house. A few simple tricks will help make sure you get a good one.
The 22 rimfire round in short, long, long rifle, BB, and CB versions has been around since as early as 1857. In the intervening 150 years millions of rifles have come off the lines dedicated to firing these little pipsqueak rounds. With bullets that ranger in weight from 20-60 grains, the humble 22 can take out any paper target, tin can, or small woodland critter at ranges out to a football field away. All this in possibly the most affordable price range with bulk pack factory ammo typically about $0.02 per round. With even the stoutest rimfire loads still coming in under 24,000 psi in the chamber (half as much as centerfire rounds), 22s are by definition low-pressure rounds.
This combination of popularity and easy handling has led to racks of old rimfire rifles on the market with lots of life left in them.
Read more in my column at Firearms Talk.com
