what a good decision to be facing
I have well to many jframes if thats possible? my 357s are in stainless. allloy is not 357 and i think thats a good thing it made to be very small and light. I
am sure i could deal with it i am sure but range work would be a nightmare.
that siad if i had to own one gun a 3inch 357 in stainless seems aa very logical choice, I choose teh three in ch for ballistic reasons that extra barrel jumps the veloicty a few hundred feet per second , so says the studies i saw anyway.
I personally find 50 357 hot loads in a model 60 as not a huge deal while i am shooting it but as that guy explained you will get soem twitching and numbness or at least i have and i cant think thats good , probably cause nerve damag over time? but the guns are almost the same weight so i would not choose based on that. I am impressed in that snw has incorporated many of the action tricks into the parts of the gun, whic sadly in the mim you cant do much with but polish, but out of the box triggers , I have to think the smith will indeeed be smoother oiut of the box. I also have noticed ruger triggers in my experience have gotten better fimish work (maybe i have just been fortunate in my test samples but both the sp101 and gp100 and i was like but heavy but smooth and acceptable.
two things come to mind, my jframe 357 will shoot the screws loose , the sight has been red loctited on and i am think of welding it if it fails to stay put this time
. ruger seemingly has a advantage here as its pinned together so less screws. if you have had your sight shoot loose while at the range its a head scrathcer for a few rounds at the least, coming looose in a gun battel very unlikely but might be deadly. usually in that rush your looking at the fornt sight mostly so maybe not a big deal,
smith certainly has teh advantage on stuff you can get for it in the way of holsters and grips and well pretty much everything. I have the hogues and i think i would hate the gun with hot 357s without them, in my view yes,they are that good!. shaped for a better trigger pull as well if you look them over well.
i know this was a one or the other and if so I would probably go with the ruger , as I HATE sending a gun back to factory. I have noticed the jframes ratehr easily in comparison anyway get thier yokes tweaked or ejector rods , i bent one clealy my fault, dropped but waist height to floor, yes it was empty) was i thought rediculous to have bent anything , it probbaly would still have worked but it was hard to open and ratated very off center, my gun shop is stil waiting for the parts to fix it , which is rediculous! sending it in mabye what i am going to do. my wifes jframe was loose from the factory , not unworkable but just generally poor tolerances and they fixed it pretty well for not a penny, so kudos to sith i think they are more responsive to customs and fixes to thier guns.
the one thing I consider a real plus about the sp101 if you read the gun blast article guy is shooting 187 grain hot loads out fo this thing and while i have read about the 125gr bullet in full house, which you dont see out there all that often now by the way as is mentioned. This round puts out a lot of flame (bad for shooter bad for flame cuttting /horrible to titanium/alloy guns in my experience.) now sound is going to be BAD With any 357M and while i accept when life is in danger ear damage is acceptable if you cant avoid it.
few are worse then those 125 gr in a short barrel. i see the magnaports and this may hold the muzzle down, a issue i dont seem to have with my hogue grip combo, a trade off i cant blow out all in the same place with a 38 kframe as fast as i can pull the trigger but you know plenty effective, if you hit someone with a heavy magnum fairly hot load, they are unlikely to ever be a threat again.
i guess i love both but in general i want to carry a scandium light wieght with reasonable but effective 357s if that means down to 450 ft lbs of bullet so be it, i am living a fairly safe life. and i can do minimal practice with jframes and be good with them easy trigger and such. price is a issue here , those are more expensive but well wroth it , in fact i would get a laser on it and deal iwth the recoiil pain, shoot it enough to know you can hit stuff close in and your got the nicest to carry most comfy gun out there.
now if i can only buy one gun , I would rely on that heavy and hot 357s in the sp101 and never worry abot dropping the gun or stretching a frame or tweaking ayoke and such, i am sure they can be damaged but its so much less liekly , they really are built like tanks. i really see them as different guns that both happen to be small framed , one is good for carry the other is a good carry but withouut some trigger work is a bit lacking but not bad enough to say this gun is rock solid and will stand up , its worth the dry firing and spring kits , me teh mor eoi look into it penetration is good
if you have a bullet heavy eough to break through major bones and go through someone anyway. t me its why 40snw and 45 acp do so well, diameter is a issue but a 357 can open to even larger diameters but in doing so only barely beat out a 230 grain acp fmj with no expension? but heavy and longer barrel it means better pentration and in my view more effective. uh yes in your house defense you need to remembe whats beyond the intruder. but yuou should have a shotgun for that, and to qoute the bof of truth , birdshot is for birds and buckshots is for bad guys smal buckshot seems to do ok. you dont need buckshot that goes through 4 houses . so if only one sp101 and dela iwth a less comfy carry but preferablly , a light jframe in 357 and good ammo but not HOT loads and then you can keep your speeedloders loaded with smae amm and stick em right in your sp101 if need be , but you think your going trouble and need heavy you can deal with a bit mor eweight and have a seriously strong and easy to control 357 putting out serious rounds and your speed loaders are handy with what are probably good eough loads.
well i a not sure if my thoughts resonate but i am wondering how low can you get with this gun in pull weight and kind if irrrittated with the lawyer liability worries, you know no one i know of has successfull y been convicted for having to light a trigger on thier gun , it comes down to was it reasonable to shoot, now gun makers are making sure no one can say the trigger was a hiar trigger but in rela gun shoot out , the poundage is not going tobe felt and will only lead to inaccurate shots that hurt innnocents , instead of the often opposing gang or drug dealer , a thing that makes no sense, adjustaable spring anchor points and better geometry would help woth both gun but i think smith made that action about as good as one can a long long time ago. well enjoy all if someone could let me know how the factory ctc grips work on this gun as far as reducing recoil it would be appreciated. i have a airlite and shoot 38+Ps in it and the ctc grip is great for accuracy but they really suck for recoil . one almost would be just as well served to grab the frame itself. lol its hard polymer and it absorbs nothing , wife hates the gun with those grips on it, hurts her hands an tehy fit well so thast not teh issue , they dont fit mine great but good enough but they just suck something you pay for a 12oz ? or so gun. they are not fun to shoot, but they carry like a dream, pocket holsters are fantastic for low risk life styles , imho
tried by 12 beats carried by 8
. My best is maybe 50 rds of .357 (Silvertips or Golden Sabre) as I usually carry the FBI load in my SP 101.
