Ruger's LCR Thoughts

[Sox]

Love these things! Kinda like the "Glock" of revolvers. Super easy to totally take apart and get back together. Few parts.

Things I love:

Easy to service
Smooth trigger with decent pull
Good recoil mitigation

Had a 9mm hated the recoil!!
Have .327 and love it, as I can go from mild to wild.
Got a .22 to practice with and a .22 WMR.

LCR in .22 and .22 WMR is waayy more shootable than my little 351C was, this is really due to the better trigger in the LCR's. Better ejection/extraction of empties, although very brand dependent.

Wolff may offer hammer springs in the future, currently nothing available. Current spring is larger than J frame and smaller than SP101 series.

Waiting on HiViz sight and Hogue smooth G10's!

Wish they would expand the line with 3" LCX's in all calibers and offer a couple of "bull dogs" in .44 Special and .45 ACP!

Overall, great little gun, more shootable than the Smith.

 

[shootniron]

I only have one...the 357...and it is a great carry revolver.

 

[Dan-O]

Have the .327 version.

Hoping they come out with a 3" lcrx in .22 lr

 

[Wishoot]

Hoping to pick up a 327 should I find one at a reasonable price.

 

[viking499]

What ammo does the 22 and WMR prefer?

 

[cal44mag]

Here is mine with those G10's you are waiting for.

LCR -357

 

[Dan-O]

I wanna play!!

 

[Devilfrog]

Have a .38 Spl, love it! Quickly replaced my S&W 642

 

[Sox]

Cal and Dan, thanks I can''t wait. I got the solid black like Dan, but man the blue is cool!


Mine like in .22 CCI's with plated FMJ, in both LR and WMR. Aquila was smoky, and a bitch to extract! Fiocchi .22LR extracted easily.

So far in about 600rnds combined, no misfire etc.

I did a minor action job to the .22 WMR as it had the heaviest, "worst" pull of the three. Easily disassembled the gun as on youtube vids. Polished all interacting relevent surfaces, No stone!! Removed 1 coil from mainspring, as no option currently. Overall smoother, easy to stage the pull. I also carefull radiused the back and tip of the trigger more, as it rubbed my trigger finger raw after several hundred rounds. Test fired 150 rounds today without problems. Overall an improvement. The hammer and sear have some crappy black finish that makes polishing difficult. I think if the hammer were made out of stainless like the other fire control surfaces it would improve it overall.