9mm revolver?

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I ran across a really sweet Ruger 9mm snub-nose revolver at local gun shop. It was in really nice shape and it shot extremely well. I am use to using semi auto pistols but this was a really nice gun. They were asking $399 for it.

I almost bought it, but........I learned that you needed a moon-clip in order to eject the empty casings out of the cylinder. This kind of turned me off.

Is it really a big deal to use these? Do many people use them with revolvers or are they just a pain in the butt way of trying to load the gun faster? As you can tell I am not too familiar with revolvers. But, this gun was nice to handle and shoot.

Maybe it is just because I am so use to double stack auto mags>

Am I kind of passing up a great gun due to making a mountain out of nothing?

thanks for you input,

HannibalTHeCrow
 
Ruger 9mm SP101 or Speed/Security Six?

Stainless or Blued?


These have been OOP for about a decade now, and have become quite desirable over the last few years. Unless it's pretty well-used, that might be a pretty good price.

The moonclips are part of the beauty of it. Further, 9mm is cheaper than .38 Spl, and getting more so every year.

If you don't want to buy it at that price, let us know where the shop is, and someone here might want it.

-MV
 
I'll second what Matt; I like moon clips. Makes loading and unloading a very swift proposition. Now loading up the moon clips with the individual rounds is kind of a pain but a real big deal.

I think it'd be a fun little revolver.
 
it is stainless and i believe it was the SP101 it seemed really well taken care of. I know it was traded in on a new 45 auto. they let me shoot it and it was sweet. just a pain to reload that moon clip each time.

let me check on it again to see if it is still for sale.
 
$399 9mm SP101

Yes... $399 is a good deal for the gun. I recently traded a 3" model, and was offered in the high fives on RugerForum. If you don't buy it, post its' location here and on Ruger Forum and I guarantee it will be gone the same day.
 
I was about to say the same thing about moonclips that FireBreather01 just said. A revolver which uses moonclips was never intended to be used with only 1 clip. A friend has 10 clips for his .45 loaded when he goes to the range. I wish I had the bucks to have my .357 Mag modified for use with full moonclips.
 
Buy it, you will not be sorry. I shoot mine regularly and the moon clips make for lightning reloads in such a short round as a 9mm. Get a dozen clips and you'll wonder why you deal with auto pistols. :neener:
 
One of my desired list guns is a 3" Ruger Sp101 in 9mm. Get it and you will love it, if you get a good set of moonclips. Get a piece of 1/2 inch conduit and cut off one half of one end to a depth of 1/8 inch. Slide this pipe on each empty and rotate it so the notch hits the clip and rotate the pipe so the case pops out of the clip.
 
Fascinating what these are bringing now. I bought a very gently used SP101 about a year ago from a local shop for $250 about a week after buying a new SP101 .357. The only way I could tell it wasn't new was familiarity with Ruger's current product line and the consignment marking on the tag. Both of these guns are the 3 inch barrel variants. Having to use moon clips is a non-issue to me. The gun came with 10 Ruger factory clips, which are rather flimsy. I ordered an additional 10 clips from www.moonclips.com a short time after buying the gun.
 
Yes it is an excellent price..........it will more than likely go up in value, take a look at the current prices on S&W's Model 940 9mm J-frame (which is my current CCW) :) and Model 547 9mm K-frame revolvers on websites like gunsamerica or auction arms. Don't sweat the moon clip issue, I thought it would be a pain use them also until I bought my first Model 625 and now I'm hooked on moon clip guns.
 
Since there are obviously some smart pistol & autoloader guys (and gals) posting here... something's been bugging me.

If a 9mm is only .002" smaller than a .38/.357, then why couldn't I just put some 9's in a 6-shot moon clip and fire them in my S&W 681 L-frame? Can 2 thousands make that much difference? 9mm ammo can be found with significantly higher velocities than 38+P, and they're cheaper, so I'd like to try them..... if it's possible.

Thanks
Alan
 
Because a 9mm case is tapered and it wouldn't fit in the cylinder. You could have the cylinder reamed to accept 9mm but then 38/357 would bulge when fired in it. Some guns were made to fire all kinds of 9mm ammo. Try a search for Medusa revolver...
 
s&w 547

one of the most fun 9mm revolvers i've shot is the S&W 547. we still have one in the family and it's a 4" barrel and it doesn't require moon clips. fun gun to keep around the house. it's built like a brick.
 
A word of advice. Don't load your half- or full-moon clips with aluminum Blazer ammo because the case expansion after firing will lock those cases in! I found this out the hard way with my S&W Model 25-2, so from then on it was brass cased ammo.
 
I just recently helped with the very first range session of a NIB 547 my buddy was lucky enough to get. The Wolf steel cases (the new version, not the older laquered ones) didn't eject without a fair amount of effort. The aluminum Blazer rounds didn't give any trouble, and neither did brass. We didn't fire any +P rounds, yet.

So there is some variation in the individual guns inside the same design. All in all, it was very much like shooting a Model 10 tapered barrel in .38 Special +P.

Bart Noir
Who finds it entertaining to use 9mm in HKS speedloaders, but it works just fine.
 
A absolutely LOVE moon-clipped revolvers!

Moonclips are super-cheap . . .

Lots of folks (including myself) and reload moonclipped revolvers as fast in competitions as a 1911 auto. You can too, with practice! . . .

One day I'm hoping to add a 9mm moonclipped revolver to my collection!

My favorite revolver (and gun of any kind), is a 3 1/4" (chopped) barrel S&W 25-2 in .45ACP.


Here's another seldom seen moonclip revolver, one of 400 S&W Performance Center Model 646 4" wheelguns in .40 S&W, that S&W made for competition matches. Next to it are pre-loaded moonclips . . . ready for the next match!
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GET THAT 9MM . . . YOU'LL LOVE IT!

T.
 
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