So with a series of changes, what was to be the ultimate. Advertising of the time called the Python the "cadillac of revolvers. Along the same lines, I have never met a Python owner who did not feel that he had the best possible.
Myself, I would have a difficult time choosing between a Smith Model 27 and a Colt Python especially when both wear long barrels. They are true classic. The original finishes was the gorgeous Colt Royal Blue, now long gone. The Colt. The 8 inch Python, equipped with Skeeter Skelton grips of Kingwood, weighs in at 52 ounces fully loaded with six grain rounds and is extremely pleasant to shoot and very accurate.
Pythons that I have encountered over the years normally have very tight groove diameters that aid accuracy with both cast and jacketed bullets. Graduating from high school in , I purchased a Single-Six and soon thereafter a. Ruger did what shooters had been urging Colt to do for years: modernize the Single Action. Bill Ruger has an uncanny knack of knowing what handgunners will like, and basically took the Colt Single Action, up-dated it with coil springs and adjustable sights, chambered it in Magnum calibers, and captured a significant portion of the American market in the process.
The latter is very rare and very valuable to collectors. IN , the Flat-top was replaced by the "Three-screw" Blackhawk.
The grip frame was changed from Colt Single Action style to one that allowed more knuckle room. At the same time, the flat-top silhouette was lost as protective ribs were placed on both sides of the rear sight. The third generation. That is one reason so many sixgunners still cling to their Flat-tops. Ruger had a nearly complete lock on Single Actions into the '70's so it was surprising when they decided to capture a large part of the law enforcement market with the introduction of their Security Six line of double action revolvers.
After over a million of these. The GP is a thoroughly modern double action revolver of modular construction, offered in stainless and blue, with heavy underlug barrel only in the 4 inch model and both a heavy barrel and a standard barrel model available with the 6 inch length.
Like Dan Wessons, Ruger GP's do not have a grip frame as such but a stud that accepts the grip, in this case a rubber grip with wooden panels. And like the Dan Wesson, Ruger also offers one of the few factory double action grips that are comfortable to shoot.
An added bonus is the fact that the Ruger grip stud readily accepts custom grips of various sizes and can easily be fitted with grips that will mate with small hands. The GP's have a reputation for exceptional accuracy. The revolver was a special order item introduced during the height of the Great Depression. Each revolver was registered with the factory and came with a certificate designating this registration. Edgar Hoover received Registration No. Patton, Jr.
These revolvers have been found with 23 different barrel lengths, as well as a number of non-cataloged sight and grip combinations. The latter had served briefly as the standard service handgun round of the military services and was blamed, in large part, for its many failures to stop antagonists during the Spanish-American War and the insurrection in the Philippines. While proving extremely popular with American law enforcement, the. These criticisms are what lead to, first, the development of.
Still, by the late s and early s, the. This popularity was due to its inherent accuracy and relatively easy recoil ,and, with its straight-walled case, it was an easy round for the recreational shooter to reload. When the designers created the. The bullet diameter, naturally, is the same for both the.
It was designed to penetrate body armor or heavy steel vehicle bodies. Though some major police departments purchased. To take the hotter load, the N-Frame revolver—normally chambered in.
In , an adjustable-sighted version of the. While the Heavy Duty was available with 4-, 5-, or 6. These cartridges and weapons helped local police and federal officers engage dangerous criminals more effectively, as did the Thompson SMG, the BAR and the Model 97 and Model 12 riot or trench guns.
Using a cartridge developed by Remington with a grain semi-wadcutter around 1, fps and with a case 0. Edgar Hoover. The FBI later bought a substantial number of. Walsh used his magnum during a shootout with the Brady Gang in October Again, bullet weights must be matched to the job at hand.
If the bullet is too heavy, it may not meet enough resistance to render a wide wound at low velocities. If the bullet is too light, it may not have enough energy to render a deep and broad wound on larger bodied animals.
At impact velocities of fps and below, bullet expansion may be fully evident, yet wounding can be narrow proportionate to the expanded caliber of the bullet and blood trails poor. At these velocities and in the absence of any major hydraulic force, the. Bullets with deep skives along with very deep and broad hollow points can prove the most effective for generating fast bleeding wounds at these very low impact velocities.
At low velocities, it is important to try to keep shots well forwards in at attempt to break bone. As a contrast to this, if a rear lung shot is taken, although the bullet may expand, the blood may drain to the bottom of the chest, not out through the exit wound as might be expected. Depending on the bullet design, most jacketed hollow point handgun bullets will continue to expand down to impact velocities of around fps with good bullet designs such as the XTP continuing to display some level of expansion down to impact velocities of fps.
Nevertheless, best performance occurs at impact velocities at or above fps. Regarding bullet weights. When loaded with fast expanding grain bullets traveling at or over fps rifles , the. This bullet weight cannot produce deep penetration yet should not by the same token be completely ignored.
For very light framed game weighing up to 60kg lb , this bullet weight combined with high velocities can be very useful. The grain bullet is the compromise weight for handgun hunting. Driven at velocities of to fps from a handgun, the. From a rifle, this bullet weight can be driven at relatively high velocities of around fps and can create broad internal wounding.
But there are some pitfalls with this bullet weight to be mindful of and readers are urged to try to remember the following. If a tough grain bullet is selected, wounds may be proportionate to caliber.
If a soft bullet is selected, penetration will be limited on larger bodied animals, especially at rifle velocities. Nevertheless, this bullet weight can produce very broad and fast killing wounds when bullet construction is matched to the job at hand. The grain Hornady XTP can for example produce exceptional results on Fallow or White Tail deer, but this same bullet is not well suited to the likes of wild boar with heavy shoulder shields.
The grain bullet weight is particularly useful in the. In a rifle, producing around fps, a bullet like the grain XTP can be considered an all around go-to design for a wide range of game body weights. But in handguns, factory ammunition may only yield muzzle velocities of around fps.
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