![]() ![]() With the overall aesthetics of the gun, you would swear it comes from a more expensive house if it didn’t have Ruger roll stamped down the slide. It adds maybe 1mm to the width of the slide but doesn’t take away from the looks. It also features a lightening window cut out on top, a fiber optic front sight with an adjustable rear, and did I mention included red dot plate? The plate mounts right in the top of the slide, without obstructing the iron sights. With both front and rear cocking serrations, and a machined in fuller, it is a beauty to behold. The engineering department really outdid themselves in both style and features. The slide is where the real magic happens. The basepads are flared a bit, which makes them easy to grab out of a pouch. The magazines are true double stacks, with a follower in them just like a baby AR magazine. With a capacity of 20, this is a serious bit of shooting per mag. The gun ships with two magazines, which are steel. Opposite side view, note trigger geometry ![]() We will have to chalk that up to a marvel of ergonomics, and I think you will agree it feels much lighter than the specs say. But my gauge insisted it was five and a half. It felt so light and crisp, I would have sworn it was about 3 pounds. It has a safety in the middle of the trigger, but it is wide enough to easily depress without causing discomfort, even in a long day of shooting. The trigger is kind of a hybrid of curved and flat, which produces a very nice feel. Now, how about that trigger, the key piece to any handgun? Prepare to defend your morale. Takedown, slide lock, mag release, and trigger Which makes it feel a bit out of place with the other bits. The magazine release is reversible, and while quite functional, is the only control that feels even a little out of place. The takedown lever is very thin, which keeps it from interfering with your grip while remaining easy to use. The slide lock is well machined, and a nice balance of useful size while remaining out of the way. Up top, you get a 1911 style safety, ambidextrous out of the box. Ruger also packed in a textured cut out at the bottom of the grip, to allow a serious grab on a potentially hung magazine, without taking away from the overall feel in your palm. The grip is rather oblong to facilitate the rectangular magazine required for 5.7x28mm, but it ends up feeling really good. ( To be fair, the P365 sports something similar, which I didn’t realize until today. It is a feature I didn’t know I wanted until today, but I can’t unsee it. At the risk of sounding like a crazy person, it feels like they were done to move your finger more in line with the trigger. It narrows at the top, with a nice rear slide undercut and grooves at grips apex. Ruger has not only added a very nice feeling texture to the grip but how they have shaped it is stunning. Despite being light and agile, it doesn’t feel cheap, in a manner we often associate with polymer guns. The portion where the rear of the slide sits is cut for a red dot, which we shall elaborate on in a moment. Inside, the top is foam, while the bottom is hard molded plastic. The case is a hard-sided plastic affair, with red accented latches ( padlock compatible of course) and Ruger stenciled in red on the front. Even from the moment you pick up the case, the only word to describe it On this model, Ruger did literally everything With the history and ballistics lesson over, how about that Rugerĥ7? It is, quite simply amazing. Which is rather amazing considering the overall size of the cartridge. With the velocity, it actually isn’t that far off of 223/5.56 from a short barrel. The ammo is very small and light, a huge bonus in terms of field use or survival. It pushes a 40-grain bullet at over 2000 FPS, while still having very minimal recoil. The 5.7 actually has some insane ballistics for such a small cartridge. Over the last few years, we have seen CMMG chamber a Banshee for it and some AR conversions, but to my knowledge not one other real pistol beside the FNH existed. While a few non-FNH platforms or conversions do exist, 5.7 remained mostly an FNH specific cartridge until recently. Coupled with a relatively high cost per round, typical of a new cartridge with limited platforms, we didn’t see much out of 5.7x28mm for many years. Despite the ATF classifying 5.7 bullets as non-AP, the freak out was real. ![]() 5.7 on left, with a real primer, not rimfireĥ.7 was shouted down as the new scary “Cop Killer” bullet, much like Glock could “ go through metal detectors” as a plastic gun. And who are the only people that generally wear body armor on a daily basis in the United States? Police Officers. While the armor-penetrating projectile was NEVER sold to civilians, the reputation stuck to all 5.7. And many pearls where subsequently clutched. And like many military calibers, it was then introduced to the civilian market. The P90 and FNH 5.7 did catch on in limited military circles but was never widely adopted. ![]()
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