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I think you mean $225. And yes they carry one with the 22" barrel....however there are a couple of other distributors selling them now.

They are ramping up production after the holidays. So in a month or so you should expect to see a lot more of them in the wild.

ACRYLICTNK is a top notch seller FWIW. he is the best price anywhere.

Academy Sports...$190 +Tax and $10 GT Distributors...$199 but only 7% tax and no TICS...reciprocity with TN/GA

I was in grade school and figured out that I could make sense of very complicated machines and mathematics. Was a very neat and tidy person even pre-teen I wanted to be an engineer...kinda of. Figured out that I was very good at logistics, and accounting in high school. Went all the way in college and knew the whole time that all of the things that I have loved since childhood could be found if I weren't too picky. Now I am the cost accountant at a fortune 500 company doing the cost allocations to the sum of $1.2 billion in annual dollars. Career wise I always knew what I would be good at. Always wanted a patient wife...check Always wanted a beautiful son...check (I knew what his name would be before I turned 12) Everything else hasn't got me worried too much. All I know is that everything I have prayed for will all my heart has happened and I couldn't honestly ask for more.

They took bits and pieces of other designs....the lockup is the barrel near the front of the chamber like the old sigs, some 1st and 2nd gen S&W, etc. Granted they didn't look as close as the current releases to existing designs, but they are all there. The end product was something new, but again nothing that hasn't been done before by design. Believe it or not...the .44 magnum carbines were produced by ruger almost a decade before the 10/22 came out. The 10/22 was nothing new, but used the rotary magazine as its advantage. Ruger has always taken another design and tried to improve it. Their big advantage(as is better than any other industry) is the Pinetree casting division and the technology it perfected. This is why they make such solid guns. Ruger IS investment casting...the reason why a GP100 costs $450 and a 686 is $600. It is why a blackhawk costs $400 and a colt costs $700. It is why the Standard automatic cleaned the plate in the 50's, and why a SR9 is less than a Kahr or Glock. The ruger #1....Well I am not 100% sure why they cost so much. I suppose it is because they can. Same thing with the $4000 Gold Label if you can find one. They aren't successful because of sexy, cutting edge design....they work because they can make a factory productive and at the same time be very friendly to their income statements and operate 100% in the USA.

It is a mutt...blowback similar to the marlin. The guy who actually engineered it is a member of my forum.

You do realize that not a single product in the history of Ruger firearms is an original design (really - every single thing they make)....they simply take another solid design and figure out a way to make it higher quality and with less expensive manufacturing processes. This is the way they have done things since they started 60 years ago....nothing new at all. It is who they are as a company.

-get a big brass brush that fits the chamber -Chuck it in a drill -dip it in acetone or hoppes -hog the ever lovin $%^% of the chamber with that brush. It will take the varnish from the cosmoline off and take care of your problems.

Lol Caster. I have a hard time finding scrap lead. Here you are casting silver!!!! I need to rub elbows with you folks in Middle Tennessee a little bit more.

Why not use plated? You won't have to spend $400 in aftermarket ballard rifled barrels and still save tons of money over factory loads. Berry's or any of the copper plated bullets are not much more than cast lead. ....also most lead bullets are too hard. There is a misnomer that lead bullets = leaded barrel. If that were the case then .22 lr firearms would be unshootable after a couple of boxes.

You are thinking right and are not out of line. Heck I still shake my head at some of the differences I have found. There are differences in the test results from different manufacturers. Even the same manufacturer can show different pressures and loads during different years....I have 4 Lyman manuals spanding 20 years and all of them have different test results for many loads. Some of them may be measuring PSI, some of them may be measuring CUP. Some of them may be using a 2" test barrel ported for revolver simulation, and some of them may be using a 6" test barrel. (I am guessing that the test mule may be the big culprit) Cannelure location on the bullet also makes a difference in initial pressure....deeper the bullet generally the higher the pressure spike. Heavy crimp vs. a light crimp make quite a difference also. Powders can change formulation slightly over time. Unique and 2400 underwent a slight change in the mid 70s and again in the 90's Caster is right on...pick one, reduce by 10% and work up to where it shoots a good group. Look for pressure signs but be warned that straight walled cartridges don't generally don't show signs until primers start flowing and it is WAY too hot. That Model 15 can handle really hot loads...much hotter than what +P belts out around 20,000 psi....there is very little difference between it and a model 19 that digests 34,000 with no problems. 5.0 grains sounds like a good place to rest. If you want to really push the edge on the best load you would have to go in sets of 10-20 increased in .2 grain increments until you have little spread in fps and good accuracy. Remember the best load isn't the fastest...it is the one in that "sweet spot" where accuracy, consistency, and bullet performance all line up to the same charge.

It may not look like much at home, but when you are at the range shooting full snort .357 - flames flying 3 foot in all directions because of that flash hider ....you better believe that people are gonna want to talk about it, shoot it, and oogle it.

AIM Surplus has been sold out of those m44s for quite a while now, and when they get more they are sold before they hit the shelves.....so the $200 is actually a bargain price for an M44 these days if you can find someone willing to let theirs go.

Believe it or not....Ammo in the early 90's was crazy high for a while. There was a similar run on guns and ammo like the last election. It was a very hostile time for gun owners with assault weapons ban talk, sale of S&W to a british company, Ruger Sr. making stupid comments, and so on. 9mm in 1991 sold about for where it does right now $15-18. It actually went down in the late 90's and then started to peak again in mid 2000s. My guess is around 1988 or 2000. 38 plinking ammo has always been pretty cheap.

The reason that the Rugers are so much better is in the design. The receiver and the barrel are one unit and share more in common with a rifle with respect....Many good MKII guns with a clean crown will out shoot even the high end 10/22 rifles for this reason (which ironically have more in common with the Hi-standard style pistols with respect to design of the barrel and receiver) Everything is round in the design as well. This allows the parts to be manufactured with standard tolerance, but by very nature of being round....the parts fit to a much "tighter" than a standard slide in a pistol. They are just inherently more accurate than just about any other pistol made. Most people just can't believe that a $300 .22 will outshoot a $3000 custom 1911. They can with the right ammo. Not many people here are old enough to remember when the Ruger standard automatic came to the market in the 50's....they DOMINATED pistol bullseye and silouette events for decades until the Thompson Center pistols came along in late 60's and early 70's They are simply that good. BTW I am not a fan of the MKIII features. They don't bother many, but the MKI and II are the same or less in price used without the extra complexity.

Man I am glad they finally announced it....have literally known about it for about 1.5 years now. Other than a carefully worded PM messages I couldn't tell anyone. To those who I have been hinting to....Told ya so

Whew....I wouldn't even feel comfortable having a Dillion Minigun if a Grizzly Bear was charging me.....much less a 10mm

You need to reload!!!! Only way to shoot 45. Which range are you gonna be at? CRC per chance?

I have a couple of 1911's including the SR1911. They all shoot well and at the range you will not be able to tell a difference without a lot of shooting or even a ransom rest. It is worth $300 more if you convince yourself it is. If you can find the ruger you will have an equally (if not better, 100% USA made) well shooting pistol for about $650. FWIW...Ruger is ramping up production of the 1911 Jan 2012 The 2 mags that come with the SR1911 are of very good quality....same with the grips. It is pretty good out of the box.

If you are wanting to shoot game past 120 yards with a pistol....Unless you are using a scoped contender or a very select few other hunting pistols you need a rifle. 200 yards with a very good rifle is considered, in the hunting world, a pretty long shot. It would be flat out irresponsible going out with a pistol knowing of a likely shot at that range. On paper there will be some magazine jockeys that would argue otherwise, but a responsible hunter will know the following about 200 yard shots with any hunting pistol. - The bullets simply don't have the sectional density to carry that far - The bullets simply aren't going fast enough to ensure proper bullet performance at that range - The pistol platform, when in a hunting stand or leaning against a tree simply isn't the most consistent with kill zone hits Just giving some friendly advice before you spend a lot of money with sub-par results. If you want 200 yard shots in a very compact package...get a Remington 7 in .243, 7mm-08, or .308 -or- a Ruger compact/scout rifle. They weigh about the same as the x-frame revolvers and past 150 yards will run absolute circles around even the .500 when actual meat on the table is concerned. Plus they are more versitile calibers, cheaper to shoot, and much better overall firearms for this part of the US

If you live in TN and are a using it as a hunting tool....there is nothing that a 500 S&W or 460S&W can do that a 44 magnum or 45 Colt (45 Only if you reload) can't. They can start all sorts of conversations at the range, they can put a bunch of hurt on a target, and they can cost you a stupid amount of money to feed. However from a hunting perspective...they are all 0 - 120 yard guns. Even then only if you can shoot them that well. The rule of thumb that works well on determining shooting range of a hunting handgun. Get a grapefruit or pie plate and find the farthest distance that you can regularly hit the target at the first shot...that is the range that you can take an animal when hunting. For most people that is 25 - 75 yards. That is actually about the average spot distance in many parts of the TN hunting realm. Practice and you can do 100....most people can't hit a pie plate at 100 yards with a big bore handgun without a bit of practice. Also. Don't rule out a thompson center pistol. They make superb hunting pistols.

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I don't know how I went this long without seeing this....Man I am sick at my stomach after reading that Marshall passed away. We traded several guns and he spent some very friendly time with my wife and I at our house a while back. Fine man! Really sorry to hear of this. On the other hand. Of all the folks I have met - He is certainly one whose heart I am not worried about.

What range is it going to take place? I am assuming the Dodd range as I haven't got it on the schedule at CRC.