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Post by CraigC on Apr 20, 2019 13:01:12 GMT -5
Can we get a confirmation that the grip frame is zinc? This was claimed in the RealGuns review. Same people who said the .454/.480 Bisleys were all Carpenter 465.
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Post by bula on Apr 20, 2019 13:34:54 GMT -5
Hmmnnn..what will we say when the appropriately sized 45 Colt version is announced ? Am gonna go hide in the basement now..
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Post by coldtriggerfinger on Apr 20, 2019 14:08:05 GMT -5
Tho many won't like it. I'm quite happy the grips are synthetic. The wood grip panels on most of the 6 shooters I've packed in the brush for a while didn't hold up very well. I would have loved having laminate, rubber or carbon fiber/plastic or nylon panels. !!
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Post by CraigC on Apr 20, 2019 14:23:21 GMT -5
I think I'll start with the silver version and put some of those cheap Ajax ivory polymers on it. Got a pair laying around somewhere.
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Post by Joe S. on Apr 20, 2019 14:53:58 GMT -5
Have the bronze one on my dealer’s wish list. Maybe I’ll get one before they dry up.
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Post by buckelliott on Apr 20, 2019 16:00:07 GMT -5
Check out Jeff Quinn's review at gunblast.com
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Post by bullseye on Apr 20, 2019 16:10:28 GMT -5
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Post by bula on Apr 20, 2019 16:33:38 GMT -5
Thanks for that link.
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Post by bagdadjoe on Apr 20, 2019 17:42:37 GMT -5
Check out Jeff Quinn's review at gunblast.com Well...that sheds new light. "The only interesting gun is an accurate one"...paraphrased... I guess I could live with the black one...at that price.
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Post by push480 on Apr 20, 2019 19:09:54 GMT -5
Looks to me like it will be a great little tractor, combine and truck gun! Also glad to see Ruger make a gun that i dont have to send off to my cerakote man as soon as i get it home!
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Post by bradshaw on Apr 20, 2019 20:08:23 GMT -5
As the brutal tide of World War Two receded, Bill Ruger applied manufacturing techniques learned during that fury of innovation to make a .22 pistol of durable quality for people who rolled up their sleeves and got dirt under their fingernails. In doing so, he launched a civilian arms behemoth.
To my knowledge the last of Ruger blood departed Strum, Ruger in 2006. Ruger fingerprints remain as assuredly as the touch of John Moses Browning will cast his shadow as long as cartridge firearms are built. Now, Ruger announces the Wrangler, a single action .22 revolver built in classic Colt Peacemaker form, albeit in Bill Ruger’s Single-Six profile by every manufacturing advance available. It is my hope and trust the gun proves incredibly accurate, reliable, durable to warrant the name RUGER.
Major companies took shortcuts under the roll mark of such names as “Winchester” and “Colt,” to name two, under management which used strong names to deceive working class Americans. It cost them their companies. Ruger, which set the standard for innovation after WW II, should have in the Wrangler a product to uphold and not debase that history. Thirty years writers have boasted the superior quality presented in Computer Numeric Controlled (CNC) manufacturing. Looks good on paper. Yet, witness degradations in Quality Control during this period. You cant’t have quality without practicing it.
Without seeing, holding, shooting the Ruger Wrangler, here is my take: * Aluminum frame----Ruger made a quality act of this half a century ago. No reason it shouldn’t be great. * Steel cylinder----inevitably more durable than sleeved aluminum. * Steel barrel----appears unsleeved, smart. * Lockwork: a) Ruger transfer bar system speaks for itself; b) Injection molding----if that is what is used----has made great recent advances. Hopefully through-hardened in Ruger fashion. * Price----suggested retail $250 should be a shot in the arm for nascent shooters, and nearly every old timer. David Bradshaw
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Post by drycreek on Apr 20, 2019 20:35:31 GMT -5
Pros and cons aside, I knew I wanted one in bronze as soon as I saw a picture. Ruger hasn't made any complete junk, at least in single actions, in the years I've been owning them. I ordered mine just now, and it will be my trapping, plinking, and all around knockabout .22 revolver.
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Post by Markbo on Apr 20, 2019 21:19:57 GMT -5
The one Jeff Quinn reviewed was pretty damned accurate.
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Post by buckelliott on Apr 20, 2019 23:37:57 GMT -5
The new Wrangler will also accept Single Six .22 WMR cylinders.. No big surprise there. .22 LR SAAMI max pressure is 24,000 psi. .22 WMR maxes out at 28,000 psi
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Post by magnum314 on Apr 21, 2019 7:06:54 GMT -5
I just don’t like cerakote on a revolver, especially a single action. This is me. Just not a fan. I can see where some in the market would/will jump on this...more so than a Heritage, but it's not for me. I won't call "foul" or anything like that, just a "to each his own" kind of a mentality...and then I move on.
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