New carbine from Ruger, looks like fun!

[JD Mandrell]

77/357, bolt action carbine in .357 magnum.

http://www.ruger.com/products/rotaryMagazine77357/models.html

Should make a nice "brush gun"!

 

[devilpig]

It does look interesting. I think if I was going the route of a 357 carbine I'd still go with a lever gun though. Ruger has been doing some cool stuff lately with their 1911, their scout rifle, and this. I'll be interested to see what else they come up with in the near future.

 

[WA Martin]

Looks interesting but with no left-handed models and only five shots I'd just as soon have the Marlin lever.

Do you get better velocity shooting the .357 out of a rifle? I guess I so used to using it for duty carry ammo/self-defense I don't really think about hunting with it. Would it make a decent varmint round? To what range?

 

[black mamba]

Wade, most pistol cartridges fired from a rifle will give 200 fps more muzzle velocity, if not more, over a 6 to 7-1/2" bbl revolver. With a decent bullet, it becomes a 150 yd. deer rifle.

 

[JD Mandrell]

Looks interesting but with no left-handed models

Right there with you! I'm stoked that they have brought out the Scout rife in a southpaw version, and will wait to see if they do this one also.

 

[Mannlicher]

pistol caliber cartridge in a bolt gun makes zero sense to me. Lever gun, ok, but a bolt?

 

[fishshooter]

Yeah, I don't get it either. I'd like to see a Deerfield in .357.

 

[WA Martin]

Wade, most pistol cartridges fired from a rifle will give 200 fps more muzzle velocity, if not more, over a 6 to 7-1/2" bbl revolver. With a decent bullet, it becomes a 150 yd. deer rifle.

Ah, I see! Hum....

 

[MIKE MACINTOSH]

pistol caliber cartridge in a bolt gun makes zero sense to me. Lever gun, ok, but a bolt?

Bolt guns tend to be more accurate then other action types.also usually easer to mount a scope.

 

[Erasmus]

God help me, I like it.

Hoppes #9 must have killed my last brain cell.

 

[black mamba]

I know it smells good, Erasmus, but you ain't supposed to drink it!

 

[mbjannusch]

Looks interesting but with no left-handed models and only five shots I'd just as soon have the Marlin lever.

Do you get better velocity shooting the .357 out of a rifle? I guess I so used to using it for duty carry ammo/self-defense I don't really think about hunting with it. Would it make a decent varmint round? To what range?

You just have to learn to shoot properly

 

[WA Martin]

You just have to learn to shoot properly

Shootings not the problem, follow up shoot it the trouble. ('Course there's the argument a proper shot needs no follow-up...)