Ruger appears to be kicking butt from an innovation standpoint. The company also appears to be allowing its guns to generate their own hype rather than starting an advance marketing campaign about an upcoming "legendary" mystery gun that it could have produced 20 years ago. Two thumbs up!
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That's a MUCH better option than the .22 mag pistols. .22 mag is a cast iron bitch of a cartridge to make work in a semi-auto. This pistol gives you everything you want from a .22 mag and SO MUCH MORE. I'm not big on the 5.7 for defense, but it has been well established that it does work. Now as a field pistol, this could be the chit!!! That is one FUN and flat shooting handgun cartridge.
Will you reload for it? I have heard/read that reloading for the 5.7x28 is kind of a pain. Some say they won't throw powder for it in their Dillon and weigh charges individually. Others say they just throw low book loads and don't sweat being off by a few tenths of a grain should it happen. Given the number of rounds I'd likely go through in a range session, I think hand loading on a progressive press would be the only way I would want to fly.
Will you reload for it? I have heard/read that reloading for the 5.7x28 is kind of a pain. Some say they won't throw powder for it in their Dillon and weigh charges individually. Others say they just throw low book loads and don't sweat being off by a few tenths of a grain should it happen. Given the number of rounds I'd likely go through in a range session, I think hand loading on a progressive press would be the only way I would want to fly.
I don't know, I'd probably dabble with it and see what it's like.
Some videos just posted today. I can't vouch for the content since I haven't watched them all the way through, just wanted to be the first kid on my block to post them...
Bit of NSFW language in this one.
Gunnery, gunnery, gunnery. Hit the target, all else is twaddle!
I like the round but never cared for the FN handgun.... Could not see a grand for a plastic pistol with fixed sights, sucky trigger and a funky safety...
Friend has a FN Carbine and it is a Hell of a Gun...wonder if Ruger will bring out one of their rifles in 5.7.
...also how many of these are going to end up in the drug cartel hands as the FN 5.7 is one of their favorite rounds....
Bob
If you can not deal with reality, reality will deal with you....
If the street price ends up being in the low to mid-$500s, it should put a major crimp on the Kel-Tec PMR-30, the poor man's 5.7.
You're not exactly plugged into reality, are you? I gave $334 for my PMR 30 and can buy a box of 50 40-grain JHP .22 WMRs for roughly $12 total. And you "think" a gun selling for $200 or so more with factory loads costing roughly $32 for 50 rounds is "put a major crimp" in that. As Big Stick would say, "congratulations?"
I like the round but never cared for the FN handgun.... Could not see a grand for a plastic pistol with fixed sights, sucky trigger and a funky safety...
Friend has a FN Carbine and it is a Hell of a Gun...wonder if Ruger will bring out one of their rifles in 5.7.
Bob
^^^This^^^
Never cared for the 5.7 FN Handgun. Shot one extensively when FN brought them down to shoot at the Wholesaler I worked for back then. The Carbine was fun to shoot in full auto mode, though.
I’d definitely buy the Ruger at the $500 price point. It would be a fun little varmint gun for handgun hunting.
Maybe Ruger will release my LCRx in .327 Fed Mag with the 3” barrel and adjustable sights first, though. 🤠
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it has a thumb safety and a trigger safety, that is a problem for me in my KISS world. The gun is interesting but not at $710. Next up someone will be shooting a grizzly bear with the 5.7 to "one up" Phil with his 9mm, or GlockDuffus will declare the 9mm "dethroned" for the even more powerful 5.7. Can someone really tell me "what" other than offering a petite housewife a low recoiling high capacity pistol the 5.7 round is "better at" than a 9mm, 40SW, 45ACP? Perhaps I will just assume someone will answer "more home invaders are wearing body armor these days", truth but a 62 grain 5.56 at 2900 or so will handle body armor if your paranoid enough to keep an AR15 at hand. I just scratch my head regards the 5.7 round. .
it has a thumb safety and a trigger safety, that is a problem for me in my KISS world. The gun is interesting but not at $710. Next up someone will be shooting a grizzly bear with the 5.7 to "one up" Phil with his 9mm, or GlockDuffus will declare the 9mm "dethroned" for the even more powerful 5.7. Can someone really tell me "what" other than offering a petite housewife a low recoiling high capacity pistol the 5.7 round is "better at" than a 9mm, 40SW, 45ACP? Perhaps I will just assume someone will answer "more home invaders are wearing body armor these days", truth but a 62 grain 5.56 at 2900 or so will handle body armor if your paranoid enough to keep an AR15 at hand. I just scratch my head regards the 5.7 round. .
Great little varmint round.
"Allways speak the truth and you will never have to remember what you said before..." Sam Houston Texans, "We say Grace, We Say Mam, If You Don't Like it, We Don't Give a Damn!"
