Sights are standard Ruger adjustable at the rear and a green fiber-optic front. The solid heft balances well with the short, heavy barrel. 44 seems to feel a bit chunkier in the hand.
This is the same unloaded weight as the svelte old S&W Model 19/66.
The barrel length is 3 inches, and weight with the sleek unfluted cylinder is spec’d at 36 ounces, unloaded. And folks who like large-caliber revolvers for personal defense remain “The Loyal Opposition.” And those folks make up the niche for which Ruger has built the GP100. These days the auto pistol is king and the 9mm cartridge is the most popular. bullet diameter and weight” argument consumed countless forests worth of gun magazines. At the time it was generally accepted the larger the bullet, the harder it hit and “got the job done.” Time marched on, however, and the “velocity vs. 44 Special cartridge dates back to 1908, introduced with the great old large-frame S&W Triple Lock. 357 Magnum-lived up to expectations and has been a mainstay of the Ruger catalog ever since. But the GP100-designed for a steady diet of full-power. Then, with the GP100 in the catalog, they had eclipsed Colt and were biting on S&W’s butt for market domination when the great wave of autoloader adoption swept the police market and brought about the end of the service revolver era. When Ruger had introduced their Security-Six 15 years earlier, they made great inroads into a service revolver market dominated by S&W and Colt. (There are reasons why Kalashnikov and Bill Ruger got along so well in person.) It was a rugged beast, very accurate, built the way Mikhail Kalashnikov would have built a revolver. Ruger brought out the GP100-essentially, a “.41-frame” revolver, similar to the Colt Python and S&W L-Frame series-in 1986. “Why?” Ruger’s Brandon Trevino gave the best possible answer: “Because we had customers who wanted it.”
One of them was the GP100 rendered as a short-barreled, 5-shot. 22 pistol (see Holt’s Rimfire column) with quick and easy takedown/reassembly, the soft-shooting Compact version of their American 9mm (review coming soon!) and a couple of new revolvers definitely out of the mainstream today. At a September writers’ conference at the Texas’ FTW Ranch, Ruger showed us the way cool Mark IV.
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