Reeder Custom Guns - Is the Ruger GP100 Match Champ. 10mm

A 6-shot GP100 frame or a much larger Redhawk size chassis? I have a custom that uses S&W 646 .40 moon clips. Was wondering what Ruger really did? Maybe the clips would fit my gun.

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Just like the 3" GP100 from a few years back.

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Seems such a waste, should be an 8-shot on that massive chassis. That was confusing me. Mine is a rebored .357 cylinder, maybe Ruger kept the same cylinder dimensions. I’ll see. Those little full moon clips are around $4 each! Then to order the wrong ones.

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I thought about lengthening the chambers to magnun length. This is exactly the same as the rimmed ancient .401 Herter's, or 1.25" cases. I think it's more trouble than it's worth to me. A 200 gr. bullet at 1300 fps is easy and all I need for this.

The 10mm is no cannon. A common .357 Magnum can push a 180 gr. at 1350 fps to equal the 10mm with greater sectional density. Not many consider this. Upping the ante to 200+ grs. helps. Ditto tough for the .357, I shoot the RCBS 200 gr. .35 rifle projectile at 1200 fps from the .357 revolvers.

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to 10mm Magnum. I think Puffy was the first to have his revolver rechambered and that would have been at least 20 years ago shortly after the 10mm Magnum cartridge first came out.

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The past three years after having been absent for quite a while and I noticed that Puffy isn't on here anymore. Did he pass away?

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He had a torn meniscus and surgery on his knee. It did not heal well and gave him some terrible trouble with inflammation. I got word he had a blood clot break away and travel to his heart, brain, lung, etc. and he just fell over at work, dead.

He was a very intelligent and kind man. He truly loved his family and enjoyed the forum and HHC events. I'll certainly miss him all my remaining years. I occasionally see pics of his family online, the boys seem to be doing well.

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He surely added some color to the group and didn't have a cross word said that I can remember. If I remember correctly, he ended up with my titty pink Desert Eagle forever and a day ago.

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For a .357 Desert Eagle. The slide heat treating turned quite plumb color. We had a lot of fun with it. I sold it don’t time later. Wonder if that was it?!

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