Ruger GP100 .357 Mag
A proven rugged, reliable and accurate revolver, it’s a latter day classic!
Certain guns just seem to roll on forever. This one hasn’t been riding along in Yankee holsters for all that long, but it has all the qualities that have made other guns classics. It’s strong, powerful, easy to use, and durable in the extreme degree. But above all else, Ruger’s GP100 is accurate well beyond the norm for revolvers of this class and price. As an avid Smith & Wesson revolver man, I had to keep my love affair with the Ruger GP100 out of the public view for two decades and then some, but I assure you that it started when I Ransom Rested the one you see here. That was in ‘85 or early ‘86.
Ruger introduced the GP100 in 1985, but it was not their first DA/SA revolver. Back in 1972, the automatic pistol had yet to take over the police and personal defense markets. Revolvers with the typical twin trigger functions—cocking the hammer with the trigger, called double-action or cocking it with the thumb, known as single-action—were viable products. S&W dominated the market with fighting revolvers made on three frames, with Colt in second place. Ruger saw the potential here, particularly in the light of their well-developed investment casting process.
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