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TommyG1960

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What's up with Ruger. I own a Gp a SR 1911 and a Redwhak and a Blackhawk 41 never had to send one back. The Sp 101 4.2 327 has really got me worried. Sent it back once maybe have to again. This thing raddled from day one and the castings stick once fired. Anyone else have these problems.
 
Not uncommon for newer revolvers to raddle

Been several talks about that here and on other forums

The stuck cases are another matter. Assuming you're using factory ammo and have tried different brands?
 
.327 is a very high pressure round, were some previous issues with cylinder heat treat in the first series manufactured (around 2008) and any roughness to the chambers will cause brass to stick. Federal .327 brass also doesn't have a great reputation.
 
As Nikka mentioned they're hot rounds and expand cases. Not that uncommon for higher pressure round casings to stick. Take a dremel with a polishing wheel and use some fine metal polish and run through the bore several times of each cylinder, it should help them eject more smoothly.
 
If you are the original owner I would send the gun back to Ruger. They screwed up, let them fix it.

I was in a similar situation when I bought an H&R 999 .22 revolver. The problem was H&R is no longer in business so I could not send it back to them.

I have had plenty of so called gunsmiths ruin guns I took to them for repair so I decided to fix it myself.

My chambers were rough so I bought a blue plastic chamber brush made by Iosso which is very, stiff, far stiffer than a bronze brush.

I took a short piece of a cleaning rod and screwed the Iosso brush on and lubed it with J.B. Bore Cleaner.

I put the cleaning rod in a drill motor on low speed and ran the brush in and out of the 9 cylinder holes about eight times each.

On two cylinders' I could still see a deep scratch but all the other scratches were now gone and all the other cylinders were minus the roughness that they had.

I did not get carried away and make the cylinder holes egg shaped. I just polished enough to get out the roughness. The result was I was able to use 7 different types of ammo and the empty cases actually fell out of the cylinder after they were ejected. Accuracy was not affected.
 
If you have rough cylinders a flex hone is easy to use and you can do it yourself. I used one of these on a Dan Wesson .357 I had with very rough cylinders and it smoothed them up nicely. Now full power loads don't stick at all. You do need a drill though.
 

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Ruger will service it even if you are NOT the original owner
Thats what i thought but the above post got meI wondering about that.
Not that I've ever had a problem with a Ruger.

Smith and wesson now is a completely different story on problems.
 
It's NOT the design of the gun. My SP101 in 38 Sp is 100% from day one out of the box. Yours must be suffering from a combination of high pressure cartridge, soft brass, and possibly roughly finished cylinder holes.
 
What's up with Ruger. I own a Gp a SR 1911 and a Redwhak and a Blackhawk 41 never had to send one back. The Sp 101 4.2 327 has really got me worried. Sent it back once maybe have to again. This thing raddled from day one and the castings stick once fired. Anyone else have these problems.
No trying to be a 'smart a**" but do you mean "rattled"? I have not heard of "raddled" in a revolver so I don't know what you mean.
 
The Rattle was the the transfer bar. Sorry about the spelling before. They reamed the cylinders and fixed the transfer bar and no problems now. The Revolver is really accurate. A little flitz made a big difference in the trigger pull.
 
Glad to hear Ruger CS took care of you as they've done for me twice over the last ten years. The only problem I've got now is deciding which Ruger I will choose take to the range today.
 
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