A few years ago, I laid in an SP101 and a 4" and 6" GP100. I had owned gps before but traded them and was determined to make this batch permanent. They are the revolvers to have on hand before you flirt with more prestegeous ones.
They tend to thrive on a diet of full .357 loads and hold up better than most revolvers in that caliber. At the time, gps had enjoyed about 20 years of solidly good quality control. More recently, a distributor who had had zero problems with them has started to complain about quality issues in the current ones.
I modified my 6" with Wolff springs leaving the mainspring at full strength and finally working down to the lightest trigger return as the action smoothed up. The other modifications are light polishing and the Bowen sights. All of this produced a moderate but not astounding improvement in practical accuracy.
After a hiatus of two to three years spent shooting other revolver types, I took this one out cold except for some preliminary dry firing. the load was a full density charge of 2400 with a 158 grain swc commercial cast bullet. In the GP, recoil is light to moderate. The revolver is sighted for this load as well as a similar one using the Hornady 158 xtp. The double action string came out like this -including initial warm-up:
I invested five single action from the same 25 yards again not deteriorating too much from past performance:
I do believe the GP, if you can still find a good one, is ideal for times of shortages and disruption of the economy and reallocation of consumer service and repairs such as we are entering now.
They tend to thrive on a diet of full .357 loads and hold up better than most revolvers in that caliber. At the time, gps had enjoyed about 20 years of solidly good quality control. More recently, a distributor who had had zero problems with them has started to complain about quality issues in the current ones.
I modified my 6" with Wolff springs leaving the mainspring at full strength and finally working down to the lightest trigger return as the action smoothed up. The other modifications are light polishing and the Bowen sights. All of this produced a moderate but not astounding improvement in practical accuracy.
After a hiatus of two to three years spent shooting other revolver types, I took this one out cold except for some preliminary dry firing. the load was a full density charge of 2400 with a 158 grain swc commercial cast bullet. In the GP, recoil is light to moderate. The revolver is sighted for this load as well as a similar one using the Hornady 158 xtp. The double action string came out like this -including initial warm-up:
I invested five single action from the same 25 yards again not deteriorating too much from past performance:
I do believe the GP, if you can still find a good one, is ideal for times of shortages and disruption of the economy and reallocation of consumer service and repairs such as we are entering now.
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