Tallball
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Y'all are a bunch of enablers. I just wanted you to know that.
Everybody kept posting about finding Ruger SP101's with nice triggers, and the only ones I'd shot (especially the two I owned) did not have nice triggers. This made me sad.
I even posted that if I ever saw a used one with a good trigger at a reasonable price, I would buy it.
Well, I hadn't stopped by to see my friend at the LGS for a while, and what did he happen to have in his case... a used SP101 with a nice trigger. One thing led to another, and now I have another Ruger SP101. It's stainless, fixed sights, about a 2" barrel, factory black plastic grips, and chambered in 9mm. It has some minor scratches, but it locks up nice and tight. The bore and crown show no signs of wear. The "turn ring" scractches are mild. The one behind the cylinder is more noticeable.
I've not owned a 9mm SP101 before. For those of you who have, I have a few questions:
1) Can it fire without moonclips? I fire my 625 without moonclips all of the time. I don't know if the SP101 is headspaced differently or something.
2) Which moonclips would you recommend?
3) Are there kinds of ammo it prefers, or that I should avoid?
4) In my experience the factory grips don't work well for my XL hands. Are there any aftermarket grips you would recommend?
I don't plan on carrying it. It will be a range toy... maybe a nightstand gun if it's reliable and happens to be the easiest one to leave loaded some night. But...
5) but... if I were to carry it, is there a holster you would recommend?
6) If I were to decide to carry it, I would install a DAO hammer, or carefully grind away enough hammer away to make it snag-proof. I've done that before successfully. Or are the DAO hammers inexpensive and easy to install?
It seems like I'm mostly interested in window shopping for revolvers these days. If it's a really great deal, like those imported Baretta 81's a couple of years back... I'm not CRAZY; I will always buy something like that for $200. It seems like I have nice examples of every kind of semiauto I'm interested in, but there are probably dozens of revolvers I would have a lot of trouble passing on if the price was good. My wife will be very annoyed if I ever run across a Blackhawk 10mm convertible, for instance...
As always, thank you for your helpful advice.
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Everybody kept posting about finding Ruger SP101's with nice triggers, and the only ones I'd shot (especially the two I owned) did not have nice triggers. This made me sad.
I even posted that if I ever saw a used one with a good trigger at a reasonable price, I would buy it.
Well, I hadn't stopped by to see my friend at the LGS for a while, and what did he happen to have in his case... a used SP101 with a nice trigger. One thing led to another, and now I have another Ruger SP101. It's stainless, fixed sights, about a 2" barrel, factory black plastic grips, and chambered in 9mm. It has some minor scratches, but it locks up nice and tight. The bore and crown show no signs of wear. The "turn ring" scractches are mild. The one behind the cylinder is more noticeable.
I've not owned a 9mm SP101 before. For those of you who have, I have a few questions:
1) Can it fire without moonclips? I fire my 625 without moonclips all of the time. I don't know if the SP101 is headspaced differently or something.
2) Which moonclips would you recommend?
3) Are there kinds of ammo it prefers, or that I should avoid?
4) In my experience the factory grips don't work well for my XL hands. Are there any aftermarket grips you would recommend?
I don't plan on carrying it. It will be a range toy... maybe a nightstand gun if it's reliable and happens to be the easiest one to leave loaded some night. But...
5) but... if I were to carry it, is there a holster you would recommend?
6) If I were to decide to carry it, I would install a DAO hammer, or carefully grind away enough hammer away to make it snag-proof. I've done that before successfully. Or are the DAO hammers inexpensive and easy to install?
It seems like I'm mostly interested in window shopping for revolvers these days. If it's a really great deal, like those imported Baretta 81's a couple of years back... I'm not CRAZY; I will always buy something like that for $200. It seems like I have nice examples of every kind of semiauto I'm interested in, but there are probably dozens of revolvers I would have a lot of trouble passing on if the price was good. My wife will be very annoyed if I ever run across a Blackhawk 10mm convertible, for instance...
As always, thank you for your helpful advice.
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