Hopefully I will be wrong with this prediction:
Of course, Purdy or Holland & Holland could also go full modern as well, but where's the fun in that?
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Thanks, I finally got a chance to watch this. Couple follow ups?
You mentioned the Colt Python as your "second favorite" revolver; what is the favorite, if you don't mind my asking?
Second, would you change your opinion of the Ruger if you had a regular GP100 vs. the Match Champion? It doesn't seem like the price difference is all that much; so hypothetically speaking, if I (being a casual tinkerer) bought a Ruger it would seem like it makes sense to buy a Match Champion over a "normal" GP100?
I’ve owned a few samples of both and all I can say is:
Yes, but the Match Champion. Unless you really want a 7 shot. Or you want a barrel length not offered in MC format. If you just want a current production, 4” barreled, medium frame, 357 magnum revolver; it’s gonna be damn hard to beat the MC.
Out of the box, the deadass nicest revolver I have ever shot in terms of accuracy and trigger pull is marvelous, bonkers, unhinged Chiappa Rhino Match Master. I wrote it up for SI
RE: the Ruger. I bought a non-MC Ruger recently and it was kind of a mess. It needed a lot more work to get it where I want a revolver to be than I need to put into any of the MC guns I have.
I sent a blued Ruger down the road when I got serious about how much work was needed de-burring and de-sharpening edges, and due to it being a blued gun, the resulting situation of living with cold blue touch up forever or getting it reblued, which would cost way too much to make sense. I was also annoyed that the dovetail for the Novak front sight was machined in a way that Novak's site says is seriously incorrect, as have been all the Novak-front-sight Rugers I've inspected, and there was no way to fix that without a new barrel that Ruger hasn't already mismachined. You're not getting one of those from Ruger, so you would have to have it made. All told, unkittening it would likely easily have added up to something close to the cost of a Manurhin. At least if you start with a stainless Ruger, you can skip the bluing issues, and then it might kinda make sense.
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Not another dime.
Match Champion have similar issues? @jetfire
This sort of thing has been done many times over. Prominent American examples include SIG-Sauer’s P210A and Remington’s R51. In the EU, the Bundesanzeiger shows Korth Lollar earning a profit by selling modernized imitations of Ratzeburg originals invariably produced at a loss, whereas Manurhin gave up on firearms manufacture following a similar attempt with the MR93.
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Michael@massmeans.com | Zeleny@post.harvard.edu | westcoastguns@gmail.com | larvatus prodeo @ livejournal | +1-323-363-1860 | “If at first you don’t succeed, keep on sucking till you do succeed.” — Curly Howard, 1936 | “All of old. Nothing else ever. Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.” — Samuel Beckett, 1984