I have an opportunity to buy a 10-shot .22LR Jeep at a decent price. Has anyone had one of these and shot it a bit? Impressions? Reliable? Accurate? Non-lead ammo tolerant? (Many of my .22s are not).
Was this model made in both blue and stainless?
One thing that impressed me about it was...
Would it be possible to convert a"Six" to .44 Spl as was done to some Blackhawk .357s in the past? If not, why not?
Related question: Why are the GP-100s five-shooters?
When I used my first-year-of-production blue 6" half-lug Jeep for a deer rifle in upstate NYS I found that Speer Gold Dot JHPs would kill clean every time. The HPs would too but were way messier inside the critter, so I stuck to the JHPs. 11 bucks from a tree stand and only had to shoot 12...
Love those 2-blade "Folding Hunters" because that's what most serious hunters carried when I started hunting in the early 1950s (people who carried sheath knives anywhere but in a pack or coat pocket got ribbed really good; they were considered a dude's affectation....).
I still have the Case...
I favor smooth walnut Herrett's "Shooting Stars" for big bores; same grip with "French-style" skip-a-line checkering on smallbore SAs.
For DAs I like the "Big Grip" combat-style walnut grips that Ruger sold with some of the "Sixes" and also the original rubber "Jeep" grips with the walnut...
If you can find Fiocchi or other European-manufactured .32 S&W Long WADCUTTER ctgs., they can be fired in all the "magnumb .32s and are very accurate since they are intended for Olympic rapid fire centerfire pistol competition.
I've been told that the are loaded a little bit hotter than...
Green-scaled Spyderco "Endura" that I gave my son when he graduated from Parris Island (later I traded him a Kimber .45 for it). It's about 12 years old and has been to lovely Afghanistan twice among other heavenly destinations like Djibouti....
Calfiornia's crazy laws make any double action handgun manufactured less than 50 years ago impossible to bring in from out of state. For that reason Six Series Rugers bring a premium from those of us here who know how valuable they are.
And the fixed sight models seem to be the least common...