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Stopped by one of my local places today to look around for components. No luck there for things I needed though. I wandered by the used counter and something caught my attention. I noticed a Ruger GP100 in a caliber I didn't expect. I'm a sucker for 10mm, and that was the magic number on the tag.
When I got home I did some looking and this did not leave the factory as a 10mm. It looks as though this gun left Ruger in 2009 as a .357 magnum. This is a conversion that I need to do some more research on.
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"Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it." - Samuel Clemens (aka Mark Twain)
I know that Ruger offers a GP100 in 10mm now, but I don't think they did in 2009. Then again looking at the carry case for it, it for sure started life as a .357.
Some digging suggests it may have been a Clements Custom Guns conversion. The shop is no longer in business, so I can't really confirm that. If memory is correct, that was the shop I was contemplating having do a 10mm conversion on my GP100 in .357. I guess in a round about way I now have that conversion.
mitdr774 wrote: ↑Sat Sep 30, 2023 12:25 am
Some digging suggests it may have been a Clements Custom Guns conversion. The shop is no longer in business, so I can't really confirm that.
That might explain why my search for CCG 10mm revolver came up empty
"Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it." - Samuel Clemens (aka Mark Twain)
Nice find, congrats. I've been jonesing for a GP100 3" 10mm for a long time but they just command to high a price these days assuming you can even find one.
Looks like a typical Ruger metal finish to me. Ruger isnt exactly known for having really nice metal finish work. If memory is correct every non beadblasted finish Ruger I have has about the same metal finish quality to it. There were many reasons that they had a lower price point than a comparable S&W. Even then, I have a few S&W revolvers that dont have much better of a finish on the metal.
I do need to clean this one as it has a lot of powder residue. It was obviously used a fair bit.
