There is no "might" to it, if you mean overall trigger feel...SA, not so muchI could be convinced that after an expert trigger job a S&W's double action trigger might be better than a Ruger.
"Part" yes, but a much larger part would be the use of the Apex Tactical Specialties hammer as part of their action tuningI think this is in part why S&W revolvers dominate the action shooting sports like ICORE across all divisions, and IDPA, and USPSA Revolver divisions.
There is no "might" to it, if you mean overall trigger feel...SA, not so much
"Part" yes, but a much larger part would be the use of the Apex Tactical Specialties hammer as part of their action tuning
After the rule change allowing the 7-shooters and 8-shooters to play; again no one really made a viable option other than S&W with the 627/327/R8 and 929 introduced right at the rule change. Ruger finally released an 8-shooter but the initial 2.5-inch 8-shot Redhawk was a strange first offering to me, and not really competitive. With this years longer version we might see Ruger make some tentative inroads.
Yeah 7-shooters are worst off than 6-shooters in USPSA from a competitive point of view. At least with my 6-shooter you can go Major for a scoring advantage.Of course, the USPSA rules on stage design mean that the 7-shooters are completely non-viable. Lots of 8-shot arrays, and you can't even get to major PF scoring with the 7-shooters. I get the sense they are similarly without a home in even ICORE, which seems to have equipment divisions to make most other common, full-sized revolvers feasible for the game.