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And speaking of nothing in particular but I wish Ruger would transition all or most of their 4" models to that half lug round barrel configuration. The weight out front isn't needed on a .357. Apparently it isn't needed for this 10mm and the 5" .44 Special models either, and they look so much better and visually balanced. The loss of that chunk of steel hanging out there brings the balance back into your hand just the right amount.

Haven’t had a chance to get my hands one one yet. But I’ll buy one when I do!

Apparently, there's something called a 10mm Magnum. You can have a cylinder's chambers bored out to accept the slightly longer case of the 10mm Magnum.

Like my old Speed Six.

A little too much of a good thing I think. It winds up trying to be the .41 magnum which was trying to be the .44 magnum which leaves that middle ground halfway between .357 and .44 still empty. Plus the 10 mm magnum brass I've seen was rimless.

Herter's .401 powermag was in the ballpark.

I get pretty close with .38-40 but I'd rather have straightwalled brass for carbide dies and I'd rather not push the .38-40 quite that hard.

Agreed. I kept all mine just because I like them though. Grin.

That's flat stupid.

I agree. Here's the Security Six heavy barrel. 36.6 oz on my scale. Handles real well.

That one right there with the 4" barrel and the bigger target grips is my "if I only knew then what I know now I'd just buy one and hang onto it" revolver. Maybe in stainless, but maybe not...

I'd like to have the 6" stainless big brother to mine.

I'm sure it won't work with mine. I took a moon clip for a 610 and filled it with cartridges before trying to stick it in the cylinder of my GP100. No fitee. The noses of the cartridges will go in the chambers, but the clip was designed for an N frame like you mentioned. Just too wide.

Shooting yesterday with a friend..

Friend who was with the Marine Corps Pistol Team back in the 1980s...

Sweet!

Did the moon clips work?

...worked fine with and without the clips....

I’ve seens non-moon-clip extraction performed pretty quickly with finger nails only.

With a hard shake a lot of the times several of the empties just fell out when not using the moon clip.

From what I have read there is going to be a TALO special edition 3" with rubber grips and Novak rear sight just like the .357 they have out now...

Bob

If you notice the pics...none of the pins cleared the 4' wide plywood. With the full load 165s they would most of the time but with the full 200s they were blown off the table... These were 180s with 6.0 of Unique...I'm guessing 1000 fps at most. The other two mid-1100s.

Bob: "Thinking about it the GP is more L-frame size vs. the N-frame of the 610..." At 37 ounces I do not consider the GP100 "L-frame size". For comparison of 4" barrels, a S&W Mountain Gun in 44 mag weighs 36 oz. and a Taurus Tracker 41 mag weighs 24 oz. I do not grasp the concept of a 37 oz. 40 Short and Week. But whatever floats your boat. Just for comparison purposes I get 1265 fps with a 250 grain WNGC bullet from the Taurus. I do get the concept of a semi auto 10 mm but no way is any 10 mm an equal to a 41 mag.