Well it arrived yesterday, so went and picked it up and snapped a few pictures. It came with a generic ruger plastic hard case, with cable lock and manual. I love the size and balance of it and feel it will be a really fun revolver to hone my skills, especially in DA. The trigger is horribly heavy in DA, I don't know what the pull weight is, and will find out when my trigger gauge gets here. I think it will be necessary to have the trigger gone through and lighten it up a fair amount, until then I'm going to put quite a few rounds through it and see how the trigger settles in, but I anticipate that there will be a trip to a gunsmith for some trigger work.
Overall, it's a $600 production gun, I nitpicked it below, but with some polishing here and there and some trigger work eventually it will be a really nice piece to pass down one day.
Trigger: DA: very heavy pull and a tiny amount of grit in the DA trigger pull but feel this will smooth out quickly with use. SA: smooth and crisp break, could be lightened a tiny bit in the end.
Fit: everything feels tight and the crane to frame reveal looks good, as well as the barrel to frame reveals on each side look symmetrical. The crown looks nice and has a nice recess for protection. There is a slight misalignment of the hammer spur to the rest of the hammer.
The sear alignment is off to the left by a 1/16" or so (see picture), don't know if there is any slight performance issues with that or not, I would think not but I'm no expert.
Finish: The finish has some polishing marks left, that I will try and lightly polish out, but overall looks good.
It came with a few firing pin marks on a couple of the cylinders (looks to be the test cylinders from factory), but not severe, need to get my snap caps out and dryfire the trigger a bunch.
The main concern with the finish is the trigger guard, there is very rough mill marks on each side of the trigger guard (see pictures) and on the underside of the trigger guard. The underside of the trigger guard will chafe on my middle finger as I handle and operate the hammer. The corners of the trigger guard were fairly sharp and need to be dressed down to a radius to match the inside edges of the guard. The rear corners of the hammer are a little sharp as well and will nee to be tuned up.
The bevel on the frame behind the hammer just above the grip (see picture) is not quite symetrical.
Grip: points well and fills the hand, don't know if I'll even change the grip as the standard grips on the GP100 line are pretty nice as they are. I'll shoot it and see how it works for me, my GP100 in .357 came with hogue finger grooved grips and the standard grips and I like both of those.
Sights: really nice and easy to pick up, like that they are adjustable as I'm hoping to do some target work with this revolver. The sights may end up being a little wide in the end for target work, but I'll cross that road when I get there. I think I will most likely be keeping the stock sights as this will be carried in the field on hikes and such with the family.
As you can see in the picture the rear sight is drifted to the left from center, will check sight alignment when I get out and shoot it.
Once I get time to get out and shoot it, I'll report back with my experiences.