“A moon clip is a ring-shaped or star-shaped piece of metal designed to hold multiple cartridges together as a unit,” wikipedia.org reminds us, “for simultaneous insertion and extraction from a revolver cylinder.” If you’re shooting rimless ammo in a revolver, you gotta shoot for the moon. I mean with the moon. True that when you’re shooting the mooncliptastic SP101 in 9mm. The latest version of Ruger’s built-like-a-brick-sh*thouse wheelgun joins its ballistic brethren chambered in. . .
.327 Federal Magnum, .357 Magnum, .38 Special and .22 LR. The new moon unit (props to Frank Zappa) ships with three full moon clips that “act as both a speed loader for the 9mm rounds and aid in the ejection of the spent cartridges.” You got that right.
Actually, the 9mm SP101 re-joins its differently chambered siblings. Why did Ruger bring the five-shot 9mm SP101 back from the dead? I’m sure the fact that they made the announcement on Halloween had nothing to do with it. But what did?
Grips: Black Rubber, Black Synthetic
Front Sight: Black Ramp
Barrel Length: 2.25″
Material: Stainless Steel
Capacity: 5
Rear Sigh: tIntegral
Twist: 1:16″ RH
Finish: Satin Stainless
Overall Length: 7.20″
Weight: 25 oz.
Grooves: 5
CA Approved: No
MA Approved & Certified: No
Suggested Retail: $719.00
Why not just use choke tube lube which is supposedly designed and recommended specifically for that purpose?
https://www.birchwoodcasey.com/Cleaning-and-Maintenance/Cleaning-Maintenance/Choke-Tube-Lube-Grease.aspx
Prepare to have your lives f*cked with; The next logical step is to build this technology into holsters, and we’ll all be required by government fiat to keep our EDC firearms locked up. I can just see that idea sloshing around in that NJ politician’s mind who originally mandated the electro-pistol as the only option.
I wouldn’t talk to this to this CNN British globalist F***K head anyway! This Fake News tool is just trying to argue with reasoning away an American civil rights! Especially, this British Tool should be toosed out of our country…Maybe we should pay repartions to the British Monarchy for the American Revolutionary war!
Darn I have one from the original run…this is going to hurt my resell value….lol
The link to the iTunes podcast doesn’t work. If I’m going to listen, it will be only on my mobile device. Can’t find the podcast in the iTunes store.
Instead of reinventing the wheel, ruger needs to be more innovative…ruger use to do things than nobody else in the industry was doing, and not half-a$$ed things either, but now they’ve gone mainstream, mostly johnny come lately stuff…it’s really quite sad, to see the very same company that brought us the 10/22, just running around trying to figure out what to come out late with next…
a solution looking for a problem.
I spent most of my life as a devoted Christian, but the more I learned about organized religion, the less of it I believed. I am now an agnostic, at best. I am convinced that the universe was created – though I am too small and insignificant to ever understand how or why. But that creator made us human beings, and gave us our lives to shape as we will. The creator gave us the responsibility of feeding ourselves and our children, providing shelter, etc. and teaching them what they need to know to live themselves. If we are responsible for everything else in our life, it would seem very strange and foolish not to accept the fact that we are also responsible for our safety and defense.
Do you expect food to magically appear on the table? Does god pay the rent? Do you fling yourself off a cliff because you believe god will save you?
I am a Christian, Baptist, Calvinist Doctrine, who is proud to call myself a “son of Abraham’! I happen to believe in a Super Determinism version of predestination (see my blog-post on Nonlocality), but that is a whole nother subject.
I also carry. I also think that every law abiding citizen should arm themselves. God does not hate the honorable military personnel, LEO’s, hunters, and armed citizens of his two inspired and beloved nations – The United States of America and Israel. That’s my opinion, and part of my sytsematic theology.
It’s easily explained on half a million tattoo and hotrod shop walls all across this nation. In God we trust all others pay cash.
I trust in God but everybody else is S.O.L unless they prove they can be trusted.
The only thing I will add to this is the story from the Book of Nehemiah. The Jews were rebuilding the walls around Jerusalem but were under constant attack by their enemies. So they tooled up. The masons carried a knife in one hand while applying mortar with the other. Others were armed and on guard duty.
The armed Jews were able to fend off their enemies and complete the rebuilding project, much to the dismay of those who desperately wanted to see them fail.
Being armed for your own defense is a thing. A Biblical thing.
“Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition!”
— Lt Howell M. Forgy, Chaplain, USS New Orleans (Dec. 7, 1941)
Ruger listens to their customers and designs great new products — but my complaint is they always come out with a new model RIGHT AFTER I’ve bought the previous version of the gun, argh! They’re very secretive about new products they have in development, so you can end up buying a new Ruger one day, then the next day finding it’s all but obsolete when Ruger brings out the better, IMPROVED version (and in the case of the Ruger American rifles, for HALF THE PRICE of the gun you just bought!)
Examples:
1) I bought a Ruger 77/22 bolt-action rifle.
Shortly thereafter, Ruger came out with the Ruger American Rifle Rimfire, for less than half the price, with a lot more features (3-lug bolt, threaded barrel, fiber-optic front sight, etc.)
2) I bought a Ruger Redhawk 45 Colt with 4.2″ barrel. It’s a great gun, one of the few double-action 45 Colt revolvers still in production!
Then two months later, Ruger came out with an improved version of it that can fire both .45 Colt and .45 ACP, is a couple ounces lighter, and has a grip that would fit my hands much better than the old Redhawk grip!
3) I bought a Ruger 22/45 Lite Mark III.
Shortly thereafter, Ruger came out with the Mark IV version of it that has no-tool takedown for easy cleaning!
4) I bought a Ruger American Rifle Ranch 300 Blackout.
Shortly thereafter, Ruger came out with the Ruger American Rifle Ranch 7.62×39 that takes Mini-30 mags!
5) I bought a Ruger American Rifle Rimfire with threaded-barrel.
Shortly thereafter, Ruger came out with the same gun in stainless steel!
I wish Ruger would announce their new products ahead of time like other companies, to give me some warning not to buy the old version — but that would hurt their sales, obviously, because customers like me would wait for the newer version that has additional features (and is often cheaper).
Next, I’m expecting Ruger will make versions of their American Rifle that take Mini-14 magazines, thereby making all my old versions obsolete.
Sorry but I am already JUSTIFIED by the death,burial and resurrection of GOD the SON-JESUS CHRIST. Do we have standing armies and police? Yeah and they dish out death and destruction in my name-and everyone reading this. Don’t like it? Go live on a desert isle. JESUS is the same yesterday, today and forever. The SAME GOD who reigned in old testament Israel. Lion,Lamb,protector and agent of wrath. If I don’t provide for my own I am worse than an infidel-that includes armed protection. We won’t need guns in the Millennium. Until then I am an agent of The Good Shepard…
Interesting anecdote from the LDS/Mormon religion. You may or may not know that their prophet Joseph Smith was attacked and murdered while in a jail cell, along with his brother and a few others.
What I didn’t know, and what you may not know is what Joseph and his brother did when the mob attacked. They pulled guns and fired at them. Someone had snuck little revolvers or derringers or somesuch to them in the jail cell, and when the mob attacked, they fired to defend themselves, and the others in the cell who weren’t armed.
Tactically, even if she was a guns right supporter, this would be the smartest position. It’s NJ, folks.
Latest poll has her down 15%. Too much Trump/Christie headwinds. No one likes either candidate, so the final result will probably be closer, but I dont think she stands a chance this year.
Guess I’ll be in the market for 10 round mags….
MILFs Demand Action!
Well I did my part and bought a .44mag birdshead Vaquero in Q3. They’re probably going to be disappointed in me for Q4 though.
Now we’ll see if she gets the second-order clue: that it’s not about safety or saving lives at all.
America is a Democratic REPUBLIC.
Germany is a dying star about to collapse into a black hole muslim horde. When it goes, we won’t even be able to hear the cries of their indigenous citizenry crying for ailifted arms.
Funny (ironic), WE will be asked soon to rescue Germany from the EU / N. Africa / the middle east. And we’ll be busy fighting China down to the point that we can give it back to Japan to enslave to keep it from being a pain in the ass. Huh.
Grab em by the former water walker
The repubs care no more for gun owners than the dems care about minorities. We’re a voting block they can take for granted cause we got no place else to go.
Sorry, but thats just reality
The Ruger SP-101 is a great little revolver. Only one real problem that I can see with the reboot of the 9MM version. The cylinder and full moon clips are a great disappointment. The clips have changed and they are not compatible with both versions of the gun. Second, in the new version of the gun, the cylinder has been modified and recessed for the new style clips and the cuts are not polished. I much preferred the old version over the new version. I have one of each and I am strongly considering getting rid of the new version and trying to find a good used old style version of the gun.