GP100 Fixed sights

[TWalker]

Are GP100 's with fixed sights commonly found? I'm considering a blued one so equipped, with a 4 inch barrel that looks almost like new. Any comments on these?

 

[eveled]

I have no idea of exact numbers, but other than the 3in version, you don't see many fixed sight GP100's. The only one I've seen I bought. It is a really great gun.

 

[hittman]

I think they're fairly common; at least not "rare". Is it 357 or 38? Some say many were police/security guns. The few I've seen around here also came with the compact grips.

Mine are fixed sites but 3-inch.

 

[Mike Armstrong]

I believe that most of the 4" GPs with fixed sights are either surplussed police or security guns or over-runs from those same contracts. Many are .38 Specials. If you want a solid gun for self-defense and informal target practice to keep "friendly" with your sidearm, you could hardly do better.

If you want to hunt with the gun or experiment with many loads, I'd suggest a .357 with adjustable sights.

Either way, a GP is a great revolver.

 

[welder]

I have a couple and they are indeed great guns. A 6" blued and a 4"SS, both half lugs. Looking for another just cause I like em.

 

[Mike Armstrong]

Almost all of the fixed sight 4" I've seen were half-lugs. I guess the weight savings was important and the fact that they looked more like the previous issue guns (you know what companies I mean.....) helped too.

I just happen to like the look of the half-lug 4" and look AND balance of the half-lug 6"! And I'd LOVE to find a half-lug 6" with fixed sights, just for the novelty of it....never seen one, tho.

 

[Timbo22]

Fixed sight GP100s are uncommon other than the 3" barreled model. I have seen three 4" barreled versions in the past two months, one was a KGPF-841 (stainless 38 Special full lug) and a KGPF-340 (stainless 357 Mag half lug) and a GPF-340 (dull blue half lug). All were new production (176 prefix serial numbers) and had Houge rubber grips, but may have been a mix of new and old parts. The frame markings were laser etched but the barrel markings were roll marked. I have never seen a 6" fix sight GP100 or even heard of one. That would be a real rare bird.

 

[Terry T]

I have only 10 fixed sight GP-100s. At one time I believe as many as 16 versions were available. Now only the stainless, full lug, 357 mag. 3" is listed. And, yes, they are much less common than the adj. sight models.

The count of 16 comes from 3" and 4" offered in blued and stainless in full lug and short lug in 357 mag. or .38 Spl. (only).
The 17th version would be the DAO, .38 spl., New York police model.
The 3" blued short lug are particularly hard to find.
I suspect that actual production numbers of .38 spl. will turn out to be less than production numbers for .357 mag. even though there seems to be more of them available, currently.

The fixed sight guns came with the short grip until the large Hogue finger grove grip was introduced. The larger grip from the adj. sight model is interchangeable with the short grip (and the Hogue grip).






Photos taken before my 10th one arrived - a full lug, blued, .38 spl. (only).
Terry T

 

[Bootlegger]

Photo opportunity!!! Don't know much about the blued ones but I love my stainless one!

 

[pyth0n]

Are GP100 's with fixed sights commonly found? I'm considering a blued one so equipped, with a 4 inch barrel that looks almost like new. Any comments on these?

If it were me I would have taken it home. I bought one just that way, at a gun show, from a local dealer . A 4", blue, short lug, fixed sight in 2008. I wasn't looking for one, but it called out to me and I hadn't seen any for a while so I took it home. I don't know when they stopped making them and they're not currently listed. I have two other GP100's, a 4" SS, adj. sight & 3" SS short lug fixed all are .357 mag. I a fan.

 

[Timbo22]

Terry T,
PM sent
Tim

 

[wolfee]

Mine is a 4", full lug, blued, 38 only. Davidson's bought a trainload of these last spring and sold them at deep discount compared to the other models. It came with the Hogue grips but I swapped them out for the Ruger old style panel grips. These are much harder than the cushy Hogues, but recoil in a 40 oz. 38 Special is not something to worry about.

 

[Mike Armstrong]

Are there two different profiles of half-lug barrels? It seems to me that I've seen older ones that had the end of the "lug" cut in a short radius curve to the barrel and later ones that are cut on almost a straight line at an angle to the barrel. Those would have a somewhat longer "lug" than the radiused ones. Anybody else noticed this, or is it an optical illusion (or maybe just Ruger dementia....)?

 

[pyth0n]

Are there two different profiles of half-lug barrels? It seems to me that I've seen older ones that had the end of the "lug" cut in a short radius curve to the barrel and later ones that are cut on almost a straight line at an angle to the barrel. Those would have a somewhat longer "lug" than the radiused ones. Anybody else noticed this, or is it an optical illusion (or maybe just Ruger dementia....)?

My three inch short lug has a radius curve and the four inch is a straight line. It maybe the radius was the way to go on the three inch. I Googled pictures of the four inch and don't see one with the radius curve.

 

[eveled]

Nice picture of a nice set of guns Bootlegger. Nice display TerryT.

 

[Blackmore]

Nobody's posted a full lug GPNY on page 2 yet. Here's mine. It was customized by an employee who goes by "Pirate" at the Newport factory and later sold it to my FFL. Along with the polished parts, he also did an incredible trigger job and installed a .357 cylinder.

 

[welder]

That's very nice!

 

[Terry T]

"Blackmore",
Guess you didn't see the one in the middle of my second photo. Mine is original.
Nice custom job on yours.
Terry T

 

[Blackmore]

"Blackmore",
Guess you didn't see the one in the middle of my second photo. Mine is original.
Nice custom job on yours.
Terry T

Sorry. See my edit above. :wink:

Mine was probably bought by Pirate off the employee used gun list and then he customized it. Yours looks great.