I quit buying Rugers when ol’ Bill called for a ban on “high capacity” magazines. They’ve never been of top quality but were good enough to work and were cheaper than top notch firearms, but you do get what you pay for.
This was probably caused by the shooter freezing in her DA trigger pull (or a dirty gun freezing for her), then resuming with a jerk on the trigger. The cylinder pawl is SUPPOSED to always engage with pressure on the trigger, but something, maybe dirt, caused it to not engage.
The gun is not supposed to shoot when it has not aligned, and it bears looking into to see what Ruger did differently in the design of this revolver and the earlier designs, which are very reliable (never heard of this kind of kaboom before in ANY Ruger).
For the anti-fanboyz above, let’s hear actual examples of problems which show trends, rather than condemning the entire company’s lines of weapons on one kaboom. It almost sounds like a Glock kangaroo court here.
Wasn’t “Ol’ Bill” Ruger retired from the company right after that GFW statement he made?
BTW, I have been taught to “stage” the DA trigger pull on both S&W and Ruger revolvers for improved accuracy and sight alignment, and do so regularly with my SP-101s, and have never had either one of them fail to align. Maybe that’s because I always go to the range with clean guns, though.
I don’t stage. Clean smooth DA trigger pulls, thank you.
If I want to shoot single action, I’ll cock it first.
And I have never had probs with my Ruger SRH … this looks like pawel breakage, or a factory pawl defect. Ruger does recalls because they had been hammered hard in the past by lawyers ( one family suing them and won because they didn’t warn some idiot that guns were dangerous … so now they have a two page disclaimer stamped on their firearms ).
The LCR has different internals than other revolvers. I am very curious to see the postmortem on this.
Re: toughness…The range where I took my permit class had a Redhawk (sans cylinder) with the barrel cut away, showing 6 jacketed slugs jammed tight into the barrel. The 6th slug was only half there, cut off at the forcing cone to remove the cylinder.
The first round jammed in the barrel and the shooter didn’t notice and kept firing until the cylinder was empty, then wondered why the cylinder wouldn’t open.
The lesson for students was: ensure that the bullet exited the barrel, and don’t shoot again unless you’re sure.
My “best deal” gun purchase ever was a Ruger GP-100 with a timing issue: the cylinder would lock up if the trigger was pulled too quickly. A free trip back to Rugerland fixed it back to the expected GP-100 stone-like reliability, courtesy of the Ruger folks, even though I explained very honestly to them up front that the gun was bought used, and that I knew it had a fault when I bought it used.
I likes me that ole’ Ruger GP-100. And I likes me that ole’ Ruger customer service department.
On the other hand, Blazer +P ammo? In a 13.5 ounce plastic snubby? Why on earth do that to such a nice little lightweight pistol?
May 24th, 2010 at 9:44 am
I quit buying Rugers when ol’ Bill called for a ban on “high capacity” magazines. They’ve never been of top quality but were good enough to work and were cheaper than top notch firearms, but you do get what you pay for.
May 24th, 2010 at 10:33 am
I’ve never been a fan of Ruger, but this is ridiculous. They should change their name to RuCall.
May 24th, 2010 at 10:52 am
That’s nice, Ruger just announced the .357 LCR.
I question the timing/s.
Side note I had no idea that CCI Blazer made +P ammo.
I love Blazer, but Blazer +P just seems off to me.
May 24th, 2010 at 11:43 am
chances are that Blazer 9mm is higher pressure than Blazer .38 Special +P
May 24th, 2010 at 11:54 am
This was probably caused by the shooter freezing in her DA trigger pull (or a dirty gun freezing for her), then resuming with a jerk on the trigger. The cylinder pawl is SUPPOSED to always engage with pressure on the trigger, but something, maybe dirt, caused it to not engage.
The gun is not supposed to shoot when it has not aligned, and it bears looking into to see what Ruger did differently in the design of this revolver and the earlier designs, which are very reliable (never heard of this kind of kaboom before in ANY Ruger).
For the anti-fanboyz above, let’s hear actual examples of problems which show trends, rather than condemning the entire company’s lines of weapons on one kaboom. It almost sounds like a Glock kangaroo court here.
Wasn’t “Ol’ Bill” Ruger retired from the company right after that GFW statement he made?
May 24th, 2010 at 11:57 am
BTW, I have been taught to “stage” the DA trigger pull on both S&W and Ruger revolvers for improved accuracy and sight alignment, and do so regularly with my SP-101s, and have never had either one of them fail to align. Maybe that’s because I always go to the range with clean guns, though.
May 24th, 2010 at 12:51 pm
I don’t stage. Clean smooth DA trigger pulls, thank you.
If I want to shoot single action, I’ll cock it first.
And I have never had probs with my Ruger SRH … this looks like pawel breakage, or a factory pawl defect. Ruger does recalls because they had been hammered hard in the past by lawyers ( one family suing them and won because they didn’t warn some idiot that guns were dangerous … so now they have a two page disclaimer stamped on their firearms ).
May 24th, 2010 at 1:00 pm
Never had a DA revolver by any make miss the bolt unless it was sadly out of wack. Hope they find out what caused it.
May 24th, 2010 at 1:18 pm
And ads for the .357 LCR are showing up on your site right now. Funny.
May 24th, 2010 at 3:21 pm
The LCR has different internals than other revolvers. I am very curious to see the postmortem on this.
Re: toughness…The range where I took my permit class had a Redhawk (sans cylinder) with the barrel cut away, showing 6 jacketed slugs jammed tight into the barrel. The 6th slug was only half there, cut off at the forcing cone to remove the cylinder.
The first round jammed in the barrel and the shooter didn’t notice and kept firing until the cylinder was empty, then wondered why the cylinder wouldn’t open.
The lesson for students was: ensure that the bullet exited the barrel, and don’t shoot again unless you’re sure.
May 24th, 2010 at 10:01 pm
My “best deal” gun purchase ever was a Ruger GP-100 with a timing issue: the cylinder would lock up if the trigger was pulled too quickly. A free trip back to Rugerland fixed it back to the expected GP-100 stone-like reliability, courtesy of the Ruger folks, even though I explained very honestly to them up front that the gun was bought used, and that I knew it had a fault when I bought it used.
I likes me that ole’ Ruger GP-100. And I likes me that ole’ Ruger customer service department.
On the other hand, Blazer +P ammo? In a 13.5 ounce plastic snubby? Why on earth do that to such a nice little lightweight pistol?