357 Redhawk with 8 holes!

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Got a sneak peak and a little birdy informed me that Ruger is releasing a new Redhawk................
With a 2 3/4 inch barrel..............
In 357....................
That holds 8 Rounds!!
 
Sounds cool. I'd heard rumors of this one but this is the first I'm hearing of the barrel length. I'm in the market for a 6.5" or longer .357 and I was hoping this would be it. Don't need another snubbie though.
 
Surely it will come with a longer barrel. That is what I'm waiting for but THANK YOU RUGER!!
 
4 inch barrel ..8 shot 357 mag Redhawk ...and I will be happy as a pig in slop !!!
 
How about a 10.5" barrel on it. Since we're dreaming and all. Would almost be a maximum at that point!
 
Jimbo357mag said:
Isn't that what they call short and fat? Nobody will have a holster for that. :D
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The holster should be the same for this as any of the Kodiak Backpackers.
 
I got tired of looking for a 6 shot .357 Redhawk, could only dream of an eight shot. Found a nice S&W 627 and never looked back.

I will tell you this, opening a cylinder and seeing 8 big holes stairing at you, never gets old. It's like Christmas morning every time.

Ruger has a winner on their hands, but I agree they need to offer other barrels lengths.
 
Jimbo357mag said:
Isn't that what they call short and fat? Nobody will have a holster for that. :D
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If they hit the market in a big way, holsters will quickly follow. It's just a Redhawk, even if a bit shorter than the usual.

:mrgreen:

Edited to add . . . the Ruger website already shows three .357 Redhawks with 3" barrels. Holsters are almost certainly available.

:)
 
Why such a short barrel? What do they think this revolver's niche will be? It will be a really heavy snubnose. Put a 4-5.5 in barrel on it so people will target shoot with it. The S&W 627 with a 4 inch barrel is a magnificent revolver. Its an 8 shot N frame.
 
I would imagine that a longer barrel will eventually be offered. I think this would be a great base gun for a Franken Ruger build or similar
 
The snubnosed s&w 627 UDR ( ultimate defense revolver) has been very popular for a long time. It was in a Clint Eastwood movie, and Woody Harelson carried one in a cop show he was in.
 
I don't have any info on an 8 holed cylinder 357 RH, but I do own a 1984 specimen with a 7.5" tube.

Steel plates at 100 yards are fodder for this baby...shoots straight and real flat...

Bayou
 
The short barreled version is on the Ruger site...

5033.jpg


http://www.ruger.com/products/redhawk/specSheets/5033.html
 
Ale-8(1) said:
Jimbo357mag said:
Isn't that what they call short and fat? Nobody will have a holster for that. :D
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If they hit the market in a big way, holsters will quickly follow. It's just a Redhawk, even if a bit shorter than the usual.

:mrgreen:

Edited to add . . . the Ruger website already shows three .357 Redhawks with 3" barrels. Holsters are almost certainly available.

:)
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They've been making that gun in .44 for a couple of years.
 
eveled said:
The snubnosed s&w 627 UDR ( ultimate defense revolver) has been very popular for a long time. It was in a Clint Eastwood movie, and Woody Harelson carried one in a cop show he was in.
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True Detective.
And the 627 is lighter and has a better trigger, for the same price. Why does Ruger have to build such tanks? Indestructability is nice in a Silhouette gun, not in a snubbie.
 
Maybe they were anticipating a Hillary win and positioning themselves for the demise of the semi-auto pistol? If you can't have an 39 oz, 8 round .45 auto, a 44 oz, 8 round .357 doesn't seem like a bad idea at all.
 
Anyone notice that these will be factory cut for moon clips? Between that and the 8 round capacity these will have a pretty quick lead delivery rate!

I'm very intrigued by this revolver but I too am a bit puzzled by the barrel length. 4" would seem to make a lot more sense on such a piece. I personally will be a buyer once they come out with a barrel length of 5.5" or greater.
 
I'm also puzzled that the only caliber that actually makes sense in a sub-3" barrel (45 ACP or Colt) is the only one they haven't made yet. Seems to me that 45 cal is the rarest of the snubbies made over the years. Plus 20k psi cartridges make a lot more sense in a 2.75" barrel than 40k psi cartridges do.
 
I think an 8 round sub 3 inch gun, would go over well with the concealed crowd. 4 incher would be more then most people would want to carry I think. Plus snubbies have a cool factor that would sell. A longer barrel would be good for woods or a target gun.
 
balin said:
I think an 8 round sub 3 inch gun, would go over well with the concealed crowd. 4 incher would be more then most people would want to carry I think. Plus snubbies have a cool factor that would sell. A longer barrel would be good for woods or a target gun.
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Yeah, I just question how many of the ccw crowd are actually interested in trying to carry a 44 oz Redhawk, snubbie or otherwise. It'd certainly make a fun range gun, but a longer barrel would be better for that. As far as CCW goes, the only way you're going to comfortably conceal a Redhawk is in a shoulder holster, in which case there is about zero advantage to a 2.75" barrel vs a 4" barrel anyways.
 
While I would not buy such a large revolver with a barrel so short my guess is this one will be popular like the Alaskan Super Redhawk.

I doubt this 8 shot snubby was designed in anticipation of a Clinton win resulting in magazine capacity limits. My guess is that Ruger realizes that the market for wondrous high cap plastic autos is saturated and their primary salesman is retiring. I'd bet that on Nov. 10 management ordered an expansion of revolver offerings to help maintain handgun sales.
 
I assume it will be legal for USPSA Limited and Limited-10 divisions. EDIT: there is no size limit in those divisions, but there is in IPSC Standard division so the short barrel is needed for IPSC.

To run an 8 shot revolver to capacity on USPSA/IPSC you have to shoot in a pistol division.

With eight rounds in the cylinder, moon clip reloads and rules limiting stage designa to eight shots from any one spot you are not losing too much to hicap autos
 
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