Ruger SRH 10mm

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Harleytoo

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SBH.jpg I have been looking for a revolver and was planning on picking up a switch cylinder 45LC/45ACP but happened upon this 10mm Super Redhawk. I have a bunch of 10mm and 40 S&W that I no longer had a user for and ... this.

Anyhow, my thoughts were to put a red dot reflex sight on it but I am finding a mount for a reflex sight hard to come by and may just put something like a Ultradot 25 on it with the standard rings. Any thoughts there would be welcomed. I really would prefer the reflex sight.

Anyhow, the other thing I was thinking of doing is getting the barrel cut down from the 6.5" to around 5" and possibly porting it, though I am not thinking that it needs porting all that bad. I think the shorter barrel will make it a bit handier. If I do I am not sure I would put the front sight back on. This is one reason I wanted a reflex sight for it.

I welcome any input.



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It's basically a training issue but I haven't warmed up to the reflex sights on a pistol. The tube style is much more natural for me. So all my SRH's wear an Ultradot 30mm.

Chopping the barrel is a good idea. It will lighten the load but the .44Mag already feels like shooting a PPC gun. No need for porting on a 10mm.
 
CraigC said:
It's basically a training issue but I haven't warmed up to the reflex sights on a pistol. The tube style is much more natural for me. So all my SRH's wear an Ultradot 30mm.

Chopping the barrel is a good idea. It will lighten the load but the .44Mag already feels like shooting a PPC gun. No need for porting on a 10mm.
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Yea, I think just cutting it down a bit would be all I really need. I meant to post a pic in the original post. Put it there now.
 
tommy.duncan said:
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I have one and I love it. It is to long to carry but it is a blast to shoot!!
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Aside from the range, if I were to carry it it would be in a cross sling chest holster if I were hunting. That is actually why I wanted the reflex sight for fast acquisition. Here in Texas brush it would be a good hog gun I think.
 
I have an S&W 610 (10 mm) and it is the only revolver that I have that created the dreaded carbon ring and had chambering problems after shooting a low number of the shorter cartridge (40 S&W). It was nothing a good cleaning does not solve.

Your mileage may vary but keep it in mind.

10mm is a slick revolver cartridge, particularly when used with moon clips.

The Ruger sounds like a good project.
 
CraigC, this is most probably the setup I will end up going with. So the 30mm fits just fine in the stock rings?
 
Nice looking revolver . I like your idea of cutting the barrel down to 5 inches .
 
Harleytoo said:
Anyhow, my thoughts were to put a red dot reflex sight on it but I am finding a mount for a reflex sight hard to come by and may just put something like a Ultradot 25 on it with the standard rings. Any thoughts there would be welcomed. I really would prefer the reflex sight.
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Not sure how handy you are, but there is room on a standard ruger ring to mill the ring portion off flat, leaving just the base, and tap it for a pair of 6-32 screws. Then slap a basic pic rail or RDS mount on and screw it to the ruger ring base.

I did this recently to make a scope scout mount on my Ruger 99/44, shown below.
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I decided to get the Griffon Hill reflex mount. After looking at the scope mount rings they were going to put the scope higher on the gun than I wanted. I had been thinking about getting a Vortex Viper for it to begin with.

I think this setup with the shortened barrel will be optimal for how I want to use the gun.

Now to find, hopefully a local, gunsmith to cut the barrel down.
 
I dislike rails. The current mini reflex sights are all slide-ride so none of them fit a rail without an adapter. If I had to put a rail and then an adapter, the sight would be stacked too high.

Someone needs to make a direct-mount revolver optic. For example, a reflex sight that bolted directly to S&W's three top-strap holes. I currently use an adapter plate. This is better than a rail and then a rail adapter, but the plate would be superfluous if the optic had been designed for a revolver to begin with and not an optic cut slide. One could argue that the revolver's top strap should be designed for one of the standard optic footprints, but the flat, rectangular base of the reflex sights and their footprints are suited to the top of many slides but not so suited to a revolver top strap. There is a need for a revolver optic with a narrower base. They did it already for the slim pistols. Revolvers are next - I could wish. I also dislike the matte black finish aluminum housing that is ubiquitous in mini reflex sights. That only matches the couple of "tactical" revolvers out there.

I don't have any recoil concerns for a slide-ride optic mounted to a 3-pound revolver barrel. Even with 500, I can't imagine the g-forces are greater than a reciprocating slide.

I do believe tube optics are superior optically. I'd like to think they are. I'm pretty sure the dot in a Aimpoint H34S will look better than in my Trijicon. The only thing I have against tubes is they are too big for everyday carry.
 
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