Well the revolver arrived on Tuesday, two days early! O tool it out and quickly found out reloading lead bullets is not as simple as throwing them in to the case. Turns out any amount of lube, minute slivers of lead you might have caused to reside on the bullet has the potential to prevent the case from seating fully into the cylinder. This results in the case rim hanging on the face plate and your cylinder won't rotate. Not good. Well after trying to solve the issue by every way possible I fell over myself when I discovered each round should be wiped clean, especially the exposed nose of the bullet. Do that and the gun ran flawlessly. With and without moon clips in 10MM. The Ruger supplied moon clips will not reliably allow 40 cal cartridges to set off. It was bang, bang, click, click. bang. The clips are to thin. The Ranch Product clips will work with the 40 cal cartridges being thick enough to hold the cartridge closer to the faceplate allowing the firing pin to do it's thing.
Fit and finish on this gun is excellent. Trigger pull is smooth with a clsean break in DA and very light in SA. I like the grips they fit my hands perfectly. That said the 10MM using 180 gr lead bullets lets you know when cartridges are ignited. Not like a .44 but heavy none the less. I may put the rubber grips that came with my GP-100 .357 on the gun to ease the poke against my hands and in particular my shoulders.
Next up is to order 1K 200 gr Campro bullets from Tenda. Next spring I will order moon clip holders (2), some more moon clips and a RCBS 200 gr mold. It will be a toss up next spring as to which gun finds its way to the firing line. The cost of the revolver is likely going to be the least expensive part of this purchase.
I'll throw a picture up tomorrow if I have time.
A shout out to Tillsonburg Gun Shop for getting the revolver out to me so quickly.
Take Care
Bob
