Originally Posted by
happie2shoot
I am pretty picky about the 357, I have 18 of them with barrels
from 2 1/4'' to 20'', all SS and all but 1 Rugers.
I had a revolver gunsmith class from Ron Powers in 1988 and learned
the weak points from the different guns, or strong points, that's why
I like Rugers.
Remember the Speer reloading manuals that listed the pressure that
the different rounds could operate at, all the weak guns now made
have made manufactures gun shy to load to the full potential.
Measure the outside wall thickness on some of the 5 shot guns,
the smith is .050 and the sp101 is .060 and look at the frame
under the barrel on the sp101 then the smith, they have fine
threads to deal with how thin is there.
There is more and once you learn the difference you will see why
Rugers kick but.
The sp101 will out last the other 5 shot not to mention take higher
pressure loads, kinda like their BH 45 will.