Countdown Timer on Ruger Website?

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Sometimes I think people get confused over why gun companies build guns, which is to make money. The Blackhawk in .327 has the potential to be a marvelous small game/"packing pistol," to borrow a phrase from my friend John Taffin. As far as who'll buy one, I will — and the SA master gunsmiths have been working overtime on .327 conversions on the Blackhawk pattern, so someone wants them. Before that, they were working overtime on 32/20 full-sized Blackhawk conversion.

I'm already planning 2 hunts for our upcoming handgun hunting show using the .327 Blackhawk (an maybe the SP-101) — coyotes and spring turkey. As a person who carries a single action in the woods on a regular basis, I have no trouble figuring out what it's for. Caleb over at Gun Nuts media pegged the SP-101 7-shooter as a gun appealing to competitors as well as the home defense market, where the SP-101 has carved out an enviable niche over the decades.

And here's a thought on caliber...I didn't jump on the .327 bandwagon at all then the cartridge first appeared, but I have had a change of heart for 2 — one micro and one macro — reasons:

1) I spent a day on the range at GUNSITE comparing .327 and .357 SP-101 snubs with a big variety of personal defense loads.
2) I have a Sweetie who shoots .32 H&R in cowboy.

So let's talk about recoil...I know for a fact that Indiana Jackson can stand on the line and hammer heavy-bullet .32 H&R rounds into center mass all day long. So as a professional self-defense instructor, what should I tell her to do? Man the f^&k up and shoot a caliber with REAL HAIRY BALLS to prove...what? Or should I suggest a caliber that she can shoot and deliver 85-grain Federal Hydra-Shocks into center mass all day long? Remember, I don't believe in the myth of "stopping power"...I believe in lots of holes in the target...the more, the faster, the better.

As far as the SR9c, hey, you like Glock 26s, carry one. I have a Glock 26 that I don't carry because I don't particularly like the grip angle and the grip is a little short for me. One size doesn't actually fit all.

And before there's a mass "RUGER IS DEAD" orgasm here, I might suggest you look at their stock prices...

Michael B

Well said Michael, well said!

I might be considered a Ruger fan boy but I have been expanding my horizon to the Smith & Wesson M&P15-22 and just today a CZ452 Full Stock in .22lr(Love it more than my Ruger 10/22 target model, but not as much as my Mark III Hunter).

I love to shoot and the cheaper it is to shoot the better. It's just shooting in general that I love, the more I can shoot the better off I am. My favorites are .22lr's and shooting clays with my beretta 12 ga over-under.

Both are cheap to shoot and a lot of fun.

I do own one gun that is extremely expensive to shoot and it's my LCP. Love the gun to death but when a local store has tons of .380 ammo on the shelves for $40(it's the crappy made ammo as well).  I've only shot about 200 rounds through it because it will be my carry gun real soon(taking CCW course within a month).

All I have to say is this:

LCP, LCR, SR-556, and now the SR9c. I don't see how Ruger is going down hill when they are releasing quality firearms for the masses.

I don't need to say any more because I have shot all of them and will own them all very soon. The next in line will be the SR-556, SR9c, then the LCR.

I'm sure I'm not the only one that would love to own this whole line-up and I'm sure a lot of people already do.

I had high hopes that Ruger would release a 1911 model pistol at SHOT show but it appears their won't be one.

Ruger FTW, lol.