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Everybody wants to know about the SP101

20 Thursday Dec 2012

Posted by Venya in meta, weapons

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Book of the Revolver, revolver, Ruger, SP101, statistics, weapons

I think if I were to obsess about hits and reads and page views, I should probably go insane from frustration.  Despite the numerous topics and (to me, at least) interesting and thought-provoking things I have written here, 3 out of 4 people visiting are here to find out what I thought of my revolver.

Pretty consistently, the number one article getting hits here is my review of the Ruger SP101 3″ revolver in .357 Magnum (in parts the first and second).  I don’t mean by a little bit; I mean every single day.  Those two articles are the first and third most-viewed posts here since I started, respectively.  (The second is my response to the Aurora shooting.)  Aside from the home page and my review of the Book of Grant (and most of those hits came referred from Mr. Cunningham’s blog) nothing else is even close.

So clearly, if I want more readers, I should keep yammering on about it.

Sadly, I don’t have a lot more to say at the moment.  I shoot occasionally–not nearly as often as I’d like–and I am pretty comfortable with my proficiency and where the rounds are going.  It did indeed become my preferred every day carry weapon (everywhere except, alas, work).   Whether I just got used to it or it actually adjusted with wear, I’m not sure, but my Blade-Tech IWB Nano holster for it is perfectly comfortable now.  (Unless I’m wearing my older (thinner) jeans, in which case I have to go OWB, which means carrying the Sig.  I need to lose even more weight, or build an OWB holster for the Ruger.)

I just don’t think about it too much.  I clean it every once in a while.  I do visual inspections.  It’s still quite pretty.

Sorry, nothing new to report.  As you were.

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Review: Ruger SP101 .357 3″ (Part the Second)

14 Saturday Jul 2012

Posted by Venya in linkage, review, weapons

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.357 Magnum, Book of the Revolver, revolver, Ruger, SP101

Preface

So on Friday I posted my accumulated thoughts about my new Ruger SP101, including the selection criteria, purchase process, accoutrements (i.e. other random crap that I needed to go with it) and a random diatribe about various gun vendors in my area.  As hoped, I actually got to fire the thing today, and while I didn’t put through as many rounds as I would have liked (owing primarily to time constraints and how busy the range is on a Saturday), I do have a preliminary range report.

Preliminary Range Report

Pretty sweet.

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Review: Ruger SP101 .357 3″ (Part the First)

13 Friday Jul 2012

Posted by Venya in linkage, review, weapons

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.357 Magnum, Book of the Revolver, Ruger, SP101

Preface

As I noted previously when reviewing Grant Cunningham’s excellent Book of the Revolver (BotR), I have never so much as fired a revolver before, but I really enjoyed the book and it helped me make some decisions and clarify what I was looking for and why.  The proceeding result (likely not the end result because I’m only 34 and in reasonable health) is that I went out and spent a sizable chunk of my leftover per diem from the Hawaii trip on a Ruger SP101 and the accoutrements.

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Words of wisdom

09 Monday Jul 2012

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Book of the Revolver

Quote from Book of the Revolver:  "The round butt has the advantage of being smaller and easier to conceal."

“The round butt has the advantage of being smaller and easier to conceal.”

So how do I repay the author’s gracious linking to my blog? With juvenile humor. Sorry, but it did make me laugh.

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