2 dogs":23ykfbtr said:
Jeff, your new friend just doesnt get it.....
Beagledog, when I first heard of the 327 Federal I didnt wait to see what some gun manufacturer might build, I selected the finest sixgunsmith available, told him what I wanted, and he built me a custom 327 Federal on a Single Six. What I got back was a very powerful accurate package on the Single Six platform. 1550 fps with a 118 grain GC bullet with almost NO recoil. The downrange performance is quite impressive. I have some very fine and accurate and powerful custom sixguns. My 327 is among the best of them!
No, unfortunately, Ruger doesn't get it! That Single Six
IS what should have been the 'big announcement' on the 8th.
THAT platform makes sense. It makes a strong case for a smaller high performance round with less recoil thatn the .357. You'd think in a smaller instead of larger package. A parallel can be drawn between the .327 and the .41 mag pretty easily. Which happens to be 1 of my favorite calibers.
I can see a limited market for the GP100, more so for the Blackhawk.
I can't afford to buy a revolver then send it out and spend another $1000 on it just to get what Ruger should have produced in the first place. And I'd imagine most members here can't,
not to mention the majority of potential buyers.
But that Single Six could have
flown off the shelves, at least as well as this economy allows. I guess that point is moot, tho, as it seems that Ruger isn't too intent on keeping up with demand as it is.
Though it's not nearly the gun a Ruger is, it seems that Charter Arms got the delivery platform right. S&W as well, but they've priced themselves out of the reach of most working stiffs these days. Charter doesn't have the name for quality of either, but at least they got the package right. And the few reviews I've seen of the CA are positive.
I find it hard to believe that the marketing people at Ruger couldn't seem to team up with ATK, etc., to have a decent amount of ammo and reloading supplies available at the same time the announcement was made. They collaborated on the ammo when the chambering 1st came out, didn't they?
Then again, the way things work these days, the hype leading up to the annoucement's more impotant than the actual production.... Just like in DC! :? You have no idea how bad it hurts to even make that comparison....
I'd sell or trade the .41 mag Redhawk I just got a couple of months ago for that Single Six (you up for that 2dogs? :wink: ) but not for a Blackhawk or GP100 in .327.