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Member Section => Handguns => Topic started by: rich642z on January 26, 2010, 12:28:50 AM
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Mike,do you have any type of info on this new Ruger LCR in .357 magnum? I been on your website and cannot find it. rich642z
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Mike,do you have any type of info on this new Ruger LCR in .357 magnum? I been on your website and cannot find it. rich642z
.357 mg, or .357 SIG?
FQ13
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FQ, 357 Sig is a Semi Auto round. The R in LCR stands for Revolver. It's doable with moon clips but I doubt they would bother for a round like that.
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Might crack that tupperware,..... ::)
Seriously, IMHO, the .357 is one of the best SD rounds made. If Ruger thinks the LCR can safely "handle" it, they should consider it.
I would like to read the "skinny" on that also....
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If Ruger puts it out in the LCR platform I would sure be getting in line for one. That's the only reason I won't get the LCR now. I don't like .38 special. Nothing particular I just don't like the round. I've shot a lot of .38 and .357mag through a S&W model 28 Highway Patrolman and the .38s just never felt right. Granted in a heavier gun the comparison is probably nullnvoid but still. If I was going to carry a small revolver like this I want as much power coming out of the muzzle as I can control and hit the target with. And to me regardless of how many thugs are no longer breathing thanks to the .38, I'll stick with the .357 magnum all the same.
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Might crack that tupperware,..... ::)
Seriously, IMHO, the .357 is one of the best SD rounds made. If Ruger thinks the LCR can safely "handle" it, they should consider it.
I would like to read the "skinny" on that also....
This is why I asked about Sig or mag. I like tupperware as much as the next guy and probably more, but I am curious about its ability to handle .357 mag in the frame as well as recoil in the light weight. I've shot .357 in a Titanium snub nosed and it was not fun. Ok for one cylinder to function check and then practice with .38s, but I would still lean towards a conventional J frame.
FQ13 who is willing to be convinced otherwise.
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I wouldn't want to shoot this one. I've shot the LCR with plain jane .38 specials, you felt it. Similar to my Taurus m85 w/.357. I imagine that with +P would sting, and with .357 would down right hurt.
Brian
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Hang around until the NRA Show in May and ask me the same question again...
mb
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Charter Arms makes a revolver that can chamber auto rounds w/o moon clips, I don't see why Ruger couldn't. Not sure I'd want to experience a 357 sig out of an LCR on either end of the gun.
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Charter Arms makes a revolver that can chamber auto rounds w/o moon clips, I don't see why Ruger couldn't. Not sure I'd want to experience a 357 sig out of an LCR on either end of the gun.
US patent law can stop them.... ;D
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Hang around until the NRA Show in May and ask me the same question again...
mb
I hope to be asking you that in person MB. ;D
I even have a family farm, 30 minutes away, that we could "test drive it".....or ya know just "think about it",.... ::)
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Ruger made a 9mm SP-101 for awhile...nobody bought them...
mb
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Ruger made a 9mm SP-101 for awhile...nobody bought them...
mb
With moon clips I assume? Wheelieguns aren't my specialty.. ;)
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I'd like to see the LCR in .327 Federal Mag. with a 6 shot cylinder!
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That DOES sound good.
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someone had a revolver at SHOT that fired a semi auto rounds without needing moon clips. I think it had something different about the ejector paw.
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There have been several revolvers that use semi cartridges without moon clips, but that sort of negates the sole advantage, which are the moon clips. Interestingly enough, Taurus once showed an I-framed size (the old S&W Regulation Police sized small frame that predated the slightly larger J-frame) in 9mm. Walt Rauch got one of the production protos and found it to be oen of (or maybe the most) accurate snubs he'd ever shot...and Walt has shoot a LOT of snubs...
mb
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S&W 547 9mm k frame rnd butt 3 inch or square butt 4 inch mine is the 3inch rnd butt got it from my Dad.
no moonies
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S&W 547 9mm k frame rnd butt 3 inch or square butt 4 inch mine is the 3inch rnd butt got it from my Dad.
no moonies
How does it eject the empty shells without moon clips?
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Doubt you'll see the LCR in .357 SIG. The .357 magnum would be douable. The SIG case use a .40 S&W necked down, don't see five of those big holes in the LCR cyclinder, maybe a GP100 but not the smaller framed guns. Just not enough metal around the case at those pressures.
CD
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Pins in the ejector star .
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I was listening to the ProArms podcast (I think), they said Ruger wasn't going to produce the LCR in .357 or .327 Magnum due to the pressures of those cartridges being to high. I think they could add a little metal and get it done, but then they would lose the weight war to S&W.