Monday - January 19, 2009
Gun Porn
Yes, I know. I said I was only going to do pretty gun porn. And I was halfway done writing about the new Little Sharps rifle from Charles Daily, but I concluded that it was too expensive for it’s very minor amount of pretty, and that there were several other cartridges it should have been chambered in that would make it into a far more practical hunting rifle. It’s a nice little showpiece for the rifle range, but for the same money you can buy the real deal. If Daily had chambered it in .307 Winchester, or the highly practical but nearly forgotten 9.3x53R Finnish, this would have been a magnificent hunter, but as they sell it it makes for a cute conversation piece and that’s about all. Darn.
Then I saw the new Ruger LCR. That stands for Light Carry Revolver, and that’s exactly what it is and what it’s for. The little 5 shot pistol only weighs 13 ounces, and it’s mostly made from aluminum and plastic. There is no exposed hammer. It doesn’t even have one. It’s nearly as narrow as a small semi-automatic, like their own extremely popular LCP. And the really amazing part is that, even though it’s a Ruger, it has a glass smooth trigger that’s easy to pull and doesn’t stack up. This is a miracle. Ok, it’s the first miracle.
The Ruger Lightweight Compact Revolver (LCR) is an evolution in revolver design and boasts the following features:
** Long-fiber, glass-filled polymer fire control housing helps reduce recoil.
** Aircraft quality aluminum monolithic frame with a black synergistic hard coat provides sturdy, rigid support for the cylinder and barrel.
** Extensively fluted 400 series stainless steel cylinder is lightweight and compact, but strong and durable enough to handle .38 Special +P loads. It is treated with an advanced form of Ruger’s Target Grey® finish.
** Cylinder front latching system uses titanium components, optimized spring tension, and enhanced lockup geometry to ensure that the LCR’s cylinder stays locked in place during firing.
** Friction-reducing cam fire control system results in non-stacking, smooth trigger pull for this double-action-only revolver.
** Replaceable ramp front and fixed U-notch rear sights.
** Internal lock is hidden unobtrusively under the grip and does not interfere with the fire control mechanism in any way when disengaged.
** Hogue® Tamer™ grip helps reduce perceived recoil. Crimson Trace® Lasergrip® model offers the advantages of a laser sighting system.
The second miracle is how the gun is made. While the barrel and the cylinder are cut from good stainless steel, those two parts are held together by an aluminum alloy upper frame. The revolver is modular in the extreme: the trigger, the springs, and all the little cogs and pawls that make a revolver revolve are built into a polymer casting, which is the lower frame. The lower part of the gun is plastic! No side plates. Ok, I think this thing is butt ugly. Who cares? Looks don’t matter here at all. This is the next generation of pistol design. It works, it’s tough, it’s very lightweight. And if you take out 2 or 3 little pins or screws the whole thing falls apart for easy cleaning. Want bigger grips? One screw and they come off the grip peg. Neat. But the nicest part is, it’s a Ruger. And that means it’s built like a tank, and will eat max loaded +P ammo forever, without a hiccup.
There is an extensive animated presentation online at the Ruger factory web page. The gun won’t hit the market until March. $525 MSRP. Read the short but happy review over at GunBlast.com, from whom I lifted the above picture. They have lots of pictures of it. This new Ruger LCR weighs just two ounces more than the titanium S&W 340, which is the same size but double the price.
Ruger has been extremely successful selling their little .380 LCP semi-automatic. That gun has been on the market less than a year, but Ruger has made more than 65,000 of them. All the other little “mouse guns” from the other companies are selling like hot cakes too. Funny. You’d think that the citizens of the 40 states with CCW are buying little pistols as fast as they can, along with citizens in other states that don’t have CCW (and perhaps those folks are intending to ignore the law?). Maybe it has something to do with a certain crop of leftists coming into power in Washington DC? I couldn’t say. The LCR is a little bigger than the LCR, but the LCR is so small that it can be hard to hold onto.
For a tiny little mouse gun, a .38+P is hard to beat. Especially if you live in one of those states (NJ) that don’t like hollowpoint bullets; a 148gr plated swaged soft lead double ended wadcutter at 900fps makes quite an impact. Much much more than you can get from a .380, or even from a 9mm with a 2” barrel.
Oh, and while I’m on the topic of guns ... in this month’s Blue Press, Barrett Tillman suggest we re-arm ourselves in the never ending war of words against the anti-gun crowd. That’s right. No longer are they “anti-gun”, which sounds like they’re in favor of safety, now they’re “anti-freedom” which is more correct. And we aren’t “gun nuts” any more. Not even “gunnies”. No, we’re “marksmen”. That makes sense, and it’s a term I’m sure would get Kim’s NOR stamp of approval. Read Tillman’s whole article online ... start up an IE session and go here. After you’ve recovered from the heart attack caused by the front cover, flip forward to page 64. Then enjoy pages 60, 40, and 17. You can’t turn pages while zoomed in. (I suggest IE because I went there in Firefox and it crashed. I had 10 other tabs open, so who can say?)
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