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Thread: Ruger LC Carbine in 5.7

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    Quote Originally Posted by the radium king View Post
    is it reloadable? i was about to get one when i searched reloading these things. apparently there is a coating on the case that can't be replaced. so, can't wash the brass (except in dish soap) and only certain dies will work without stripping the coating off. at which point it is a whole lot of failure to extract.
    From my research the coating is only for feeding reliably in p90 mags since the mag has to rotate the case 90 degrees in the magazine where in pistol mags its just feeding the cartridge from the mag like any other cartridge so a coating isn’t needed

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    odd. i'd read that people who'd reloaded and stripped the coating were getting failure to extract - brass sticking in chamber. darn; the chances of me getting a matching ruger 5.7 pistol to go with it seem long gone now ...

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    Quote Originally Posted by the radium king View Post
    odd. i'd read that people who'd reloaded and stripped the coating were getting failure to extract - brass sticking in chamber. darn; the chances of me getting a matching ruger 5.7 pistol to go with it seem long gone now ...
    Actually I could see that being a thing. Unless the schematic on Wiki is wrong it has zero taper in the case, which is not a good feature for extraction but is necessary to fit 50 cartridges into a straight magazine.

    Some googling suggests the coating is required for reliable ejection in the Ruger 57, not just reliable feeding from the ps90 mag.
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    The coating is really only needed if you are loading to full power. If you are loading for fun and plinking you just need to down load a bit until extraction becomes reliable.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Polish-Jack View Post
    The coating is really only needed if you are loading to full power. If you are loading for fun and plinking you just need to down load a bit until extraction becomes reliable.
    if you're going to download the ctge, you might as well stick to .22Mag.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Petrock View Post
    if you're going to download the ctge, you might as well stick to .22Mag.
    You can't reload 22 mag as easily.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Polish-Jack View Post
    You can't reload 22 mag as easily.
    Plus you know, if you've already got a gun that shoots 5.7 then that isn't exactly a solution...
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    Quote Originally Posted by Suther View Post
    Plus you know, if you've already got a gun that shoots 5.7 then that isn't exactly a solution...
    I'm sure you could fit a 22 mag into a 5.7 rifle if you try hard and believe in yourself. Once.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Polish-Jack View Post
    I'm sure you could fit a 22 mag into a 5.7 rifle if you try hard and believe in yourself. Once.
    Duct tape to the rescue!
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    Yes. NR I definitely would buy.

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