![]() It doesn’t have a very high bore axis, and its weight tends to sit forward in the hand. The 6-shot, smaller caliber models also come with sights adjustable for windage.Īs noted, this is a solid little gun. 22 Magnum, but have never personally seen one. Both are exquisitely accurate little trail pieces of the “kit gun” genre, and each can be had with a 4″ barrel, unlike the defense calibers. Six-shot cylinders come with the SP101 in. Unfortunately, it’s no longer available in this caliber.Īll of the above are five shooters. ![]() 32-frame 9mm wheelgun, yet it’s almost as concealable. Very fast to load with its 5-shot moon clips, it’s not nearly as “snappy” to shoot with hot Parabellum rounds as a. The 9mm Luger is a round for which Ruger had chambered revolvers at the request of the European market and fellow shooter Gail had one along, with 31⁄16″ barrel. 357 has been the SP101’s best selling caliber ever since. 357s were stamped on the barrel “125 grain.” Sales immediately took off, and Bill decided it would be worth the six figures of re-tooling to extend frame and cylinder a 1/10″ or so to allow all factory. 38-size cylinder window, it would need short cartridges, so the first SP101. one on one to offer it in that caliber.(See “Ruger & His Guns” by R.L. One day over a meal, I was able to convince Bill Ruger, Sr. Rick Devoid rechambered one for me, and we con-firmed the gun was amply strong for the Magnum round and its cylinder just the right length for the 125-grain JHP, the best. ![]() 357 Magnum proved to be the natural caliber for the SP. However, at 25 ounces of stainless steel, the market saw it as heavy for a. With a 5-shot cylinder in a frame roughly the size of the 6-shot Colt Detective Special (and usually fitting a Detective Special holster), this little Ruger is probably the strongest small-frame. 38 Special was the original chambering when the SP101 was introduced in 1988, and brother shooter Jon had a copy, one of the SPNY models built expressly for backup, off-duty and detective use to the specifications of the New York City Police Department. As Jeff Cooper used to say, it’s about the missile more than the launcher, and in each caliber the revolver takes on a different character. The SP101 has been chambered for five different cartridges as I recall.
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