New Ruger GP100 22LR!!

**Jshtbt** · January 18th, 2016, 01:26 AM

As someone who went out and paid a bunch of money for a 617 thinking it would be cool,accurate,fun,practical I can say that I was dead wrong. What a turd of a gun. Thing literally shot loose and started spitting lead at less then 1,000 rounds. Wasn't accurate at all for what it should have been. Oh and what a miserable bear to clean! Sold it and got a browning buckmark. Way more reliable and more accurate and 1 pipe to clean instead of 11. Better trigger and half the money. I love wheel guns but .22 wheel guns are just terrible!

**vjb.knife** · January 19th, 2016, 07:07 AM

Originally Posted by Jshtbt

As someone who went out and paid a bunch of money for a 617 thinking it would be cool,accurate,fun,practical I can say that I was dead wrong. What a turd of a gun. Thing literally shot loose and started spitting lead at less then 1,000 rounds. Wasn't accurate at all for what it should have been. Oh and what a miserable bear to clean! Sold it and got a browning buckmark. Way more reliable and more accurate and 1 pipe to clean instead of 11. Better trigger and half the money. I love wheel guns but .22 wheel guns are just terrible!

You must have gotten a lemon. I bought a 617 not long ago and it was the first .22 revolver that I have ever owned. It is getting better the more I shoot it and it shoots very well. I have had many many .22 autos and I like them as well but the revolver is just a different kind of fun. I like not having to load magazines. I have put several bricks of various .22 ammo through mine and it shot fine with all of them.

**pacodelahoya** · January 19th, 2016, 07:46 AM

Originally Posted by PAwhitetailbowhunter

I like my Dan Wesson 6 shot .22 with 8", 6" and 4" interchangeable barrels. I also really like Ruger double action revolvers and have a GP 100 in .357 Mag as well as a Redhawk in .357 Mag and a Security six in .357 Mag. If I had enough disposable income to get a new GP 100 in .22 I probably would consider it. Other than shooting and enjoying my firearms I really like the idea that they will be passed down to my children and hopefully that occurs for many many generations after I am gone and with any of these revolvers including the new Ruger GP 100 in .22 great, great, great , great ,great , great , great granddaughter Electra PAwhiatetailbowhunter will be shooting the guns that I purchased hundreds of years before she was born and she will think...thank GOD for Grandfather PAwhiatetailbowhunter. He must have been a really awesome dude.

Redhawk in .357 mag? Ima little jealous.

**CBennett** · January 19th, 2016, 05:54 PM

Love it at the right price...

**Karys** · January 19th, 2016, 06:14 PM

There's a shop up in Wyoming or Susquehanna county on the way up to hunting camp that has two GP100 .22s in stock. I actually held one in my hands. It was just what you'd expect a GP100 to be. Nice for sure, but not nice enough for me to justify the $849 price they had on it.

**dkf** · January 19th, 2016, 07:46 PM

Originally Posted by pacodelahoya

Redhawk in .357 mag? Ima little jealous.

They made them years ago and maybe some day will run some again if a distributor wants to buy a lot of them. Ruger is a making some .41mag Redhawks again because Davidsons got them to make a run for them. I wouldn't mind a .357mag 5.5" Redhawk to go with my .44 5.5" Redhawk but nice ones are going for around $1k right now which is no bueno to me.

As for the price of the this .22lr GP100, I can understand the price. Even though it is only a .22lr machine time is actually more than a .357mag GP100 due to all the chambers. Its still physically the same size.

**Just1more** · January 28th, 2016, 11:56 AM

I handled two GP100 22lrs one had an issue as the screw wasn't countersunk - the other was really nice - I just don't know if I want to spend the $$ on it. Wonder if it has any bugs to work out. It was 640 at lowest price. I don't know who is selling it for $800 but that's way overpriced.