Ruger LC Carbine in 5.7

the radium king said:
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.
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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
 
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 ...
 
the radium king said:
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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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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And they're getting harder to find and more expensive every day. No point in wasting all that time to reload when you have a comparable ctge for way less money that's readily available.
 
Polish-Jack said:
That's what I was going to say. The cartridge uses the same bullets as 556 NATO and 223 Remington.
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Some of the same bullets as .223, none of the same as 5.56. A 40grn bullet is pretty heavy for this little cartridge. Heavier bullets may work but you would be sacrificing a lot of propellant space.
 
It seems Savage chambers this cartridge in its model 25. I think there is potential in a longer barreled rifle to work up some interesting loads. BTW, .22 mag was never renowned for their precision/accuracy.
ht tps://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2011/06/22/savage-bolt-action-chambered-in-fn-5-7x28mm/
 
I suspect in a few years the price will come down of this cartridge. Not a ton but probably to .50c/round at least.

Unfortunately there's not really much cheap ammo of any kind anymore :(
 
Meroh said:
It seems Savage chambers this cartridge in its model 25. I think there is potential in a longer barreled rifle to work up some interesting loads. BTW, .22 mag was never renowned for their precision/accuracy.
ht tps://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2011/06/22/savage-bolt-action-chambered-in-fn-5-7x28mm/
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Your links appear to be very old.

Savage does not list a model 25 in 5.7X28 caliber that I can find.
 
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