Went out shooting my Rugers today

[sequins]

I decided to enjoy the lovely sunshine today and take a pair of my favourite Ruger's out to the range today.

I brought out my Ruger GP 100 Match Champion, 4.25" barrel with a novak rear and fiber optic front in 357 magnum. I also brought my Ruger Super Redhawk, 7.5" barrel with a Leupold FX-II 4x 28mm scope in 44 magnum.

I was shooting my hand loads, a some hot loaded 180gn 357 magnum load, and a more mildly loaded 300gn 44 magnum load. These were some reloads I cooked up last winter and I'm shooting through my supply while I wait to load more as primers become available. I have so much brass and bullets, but hardly any primers so I'm mostly just shooting through my various "try this out" ammo I loaded at various times. I often load like 100 of a given bullet and powder if I think it's promising enough to try out across my numerous revolvers, and shoot 20-40 to get some data and leave the rest of a box until rainy days such as the last entire year has seemed to be.

Some of this type ammo in my stockpile is pretty good, some of it is not quite ideal, and the 357 in particular wasn't the best batch. Never the less I got pretty good accuracy that I am very happy with for off hand shooting. The 44 is actually pretty good ammo I just don't like the 300gn bullet, I only load 240gn now so I hadn't been in a hurry to shoot these, but other than being a weight I'm not a fan of it's actually just fine so I felt I could hold myself to a high standard on accuracy there.

I shot the 357 at 10 yard off hand, and I shot the 44 magnum at 25 on a sandbag. I'm still getting used to the scope but I hope to start shooting it at 50-100 in time.

I think MBC bullets and Ruger revolver's can't be beat, I shoot a ton of different rugers but lately I've been really enjoying this scoped 44. Hadn't gotten the match champion out in a while and been shooting a 6" with a red dot more lately but wanted to use some irons to balance out that 4x feeling.

Here's some pictures

 

[CZguy75]

Looks like a great day at the range! I've got a gp100 that I need to try out some 158 mbc and imr 4227 reloads for. Hoping to go shoot them soon! The more I see the Super RedHawk the more I like them. I bought my gp thinking that it would be a good "do everything" revolver. I like it so dang much that I am looking into Redhawks, a model 10 as a project gun, even blackhawks. I've got a feeling this gp won't be my one and done. More like a gateway drug!

 

[sequins]

Looks like a great day at the range! I've got a gp100 that I need to try out some 158 mbc and imr 4227 reloads for. Hoping to go shoot them soon! The more I see the Super RedHawk the more I like them. I bought my gp thinking that it would be a good "do everything" revolver. I like it so dang much that I am looking into Redhawks, a model 10 as a project gun, even blackhawks. I've got a feeling this gp won't be my one and done. More like a gateway drug!

I started with a 44 magnum super blackhawk, added a GP100 357 magnum from there, and its been downhill ever since. My safe looks like the ruger show room with more than half a dozen examples now.

 

[heyboy]

Are those the hard plastic hogue grips? I thought I was buying hogue rubber for my GP100 but it ended up being hard plastic and I love them. Have the rubber on a S&W.

 

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Those are soft rubber. They're pretty stiff but not solid plastic style.

I really like the hogue grips. Those 44 loads were really mild and it's a decent load of h110 there, I didn't bring the chrono but its up there on velocity and the scope weight + rubber grip just tames all of it.

I got a galco chest rig in case I ever needed to haul it out in search of a white tail, but I imagine I'll leave that to max at least for another season.