Familial Bad Luck With Ruger Revolvers

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Mmmkay…

So while my two Rugers, a Super Redhawk and GP100, both shoot well enough…

…they have had their issues, still pending resolution.

This other incident happened sometime last year.

One of my son’s shooting buddies sent me his GP100 for “troubleshooting.”

They already knew what the problem was, and I think they simply wanted to get a good laugh at my expense, something like that.
 
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Nothing special with the revolver - no shims, handloads, or things of that sort.

Just a brand new, out - of - box Ruger GP100 in .357 Magnum, with a six inch barrel.

Winchester White Box, .357 Magnum ammunition.

Same product that causes my GP100 and Super Redhawk’s cylinders to seize due to caked - on carbon residue over the “ball bearing” raceway.
 
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Could be many things. I would try other ammo first I think, if others do the same thing then I think I would send it back to Ruger.
Was that 38 or 357 ammo?
Are the cylinders leaded up? Throat clean? Muzzle not damaged any?

If you/he wants to go a different route you could slug the barrel, cylinders and throat to see if those are out of spec. May need the cylinders opened up if it is sizing the round down when it leaves the cylinder. Can check this (roughly) by seeing how a bullet fits into the far end of each cylinder. Throat could be restricted also, or the bore out of spec.

If it were me, I would try other ammo and then send it back if need be. It may prefer lead or jacketed and if that is the case, I may just note that and live with it rather than messing with it. Or, it may need certain loadings to stop the keyholing. Could be a fair amount of messing around to get it figured out so have to balance that with the bit of hassle of sending it in. Personal call depending how much one liked to spend evaluating things.
 
Slug the bore and find out what land and groove diameters are. If they're good, check the throat diameters. If good, check the barrel cylinder alignment as best you can visually.

I assume different ammo was shot, it could be ammo related. Change ammo and if results don't change then do the stuff I said above.

If nothing comes up bad, then it's off to Ruger it goes with a note about keyholing at 12 yards to get them to figure it out
 
Ohen Cepel said:
Could be many things. I would try other ammo first I think, if others do the same thing then I think I would send it back to Ruger.
Was that 38 or 357 ammo?
Are the cylinders leaded up? Throat clean? Muzzle not damaged any?

If you/he wants to go a different route you could slug the barrel, cylinders and throat to see if those are out of spec. May need the cylinders opened up if it is sizing the round down when it leaves the cylinder. Can check this (roughly) by seeing how a bullet fits into the far end of each cylinder. Throat could be restricted also, or the bore out of spec.

If it were me, I would try other ammo and then send it back if need be. It may prefer lead or jacketed and if that is the case, I may just note that and live with it rather than messing with it. Or, it may need certain loadings to stop the keyholing. Could be a fair amount of messing around to get it figured out so have to balance that with the bit of hassle of sending it in. Personal call depending how much one liked to spend evaluating things.
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TTv2 said:
Slug the bore and find out what land and groove diameters are. If they're good, check the throat diameters. If good, check the barrel cylinder alignment as best you can visually.

I assume different ammo was shot, it could be ammo related. Change ammo and if results don't change then do the stuff I said above.

If nothing comes up bad, then it's off to Ruger it goes with a note about keyholing at 12 yards to get them to figure it out
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Both pretty warm there! :rofl:

First, let’s identify what’s going on with the hits on the target.

What’s it typically called?
 
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Just humor me, it’ll be worth it.

Not something one sees everyday.

There’ll be some interesting pichers, I promise :rofl:
 
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Mark_Mark said:
remember the load or ammo! that would be an amazing short range carry ammo
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The Glockodile said:
Winchester White Box, .357 Magnum ammunition.
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Typical forum behavior! :rofl:

Not reading the content of the posts! :rofl:

But, to your credit, you didn’t start off with a tangentially irrelevant “Ah dun muh things this here way an‘ ’em bucks don’t be complainin’ none!”

You didn’t start off with the dreaded, narcissistic pronoun “I” :rofl:
 
The Glockodile said:
Typical forum behavior! :rofl:

Not reading the content of the posts! :rofl:

But, to your credit, you didn’t start off with a tangentially irrelevant “Ah dun muh things this here way an‘ ’em bucks don’t be complainin’ none!”

You didn’t start off with the dreaded, narcissistic pronoun “I” :rofl:
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Ah.. I had the same problem with my Norinco 54R carbine with Silver tip. I didn’t care cuz muh gun cost like $50
 
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