How about a little help putting it back together? A monkey can take it apart. I pulled out the assembly pin and he’ll if I can get it back in there. This was the most half-assed video made by a manufacturer.
Regarding all talks about Fort Hood shooting’s victims being killed with single 5.7x28 projectile. The Fox news article is good. The soldier took 12 hits during his charge. A survivor was shot 8 times. Almost all of the survivors were hit more than once. www.foxnews.com/us/soldier-who-charged-at-ft-hood-gunman-was-shot-12-times-before-dying So many these days base their beliefs on nothing but feelings. After LC9, PC Carbine and LCP II .22Lr this is another Ruger marketing dept. fail, IMO. To make it clear: I am not a Ruger hater by any meaning and I like my 10/22 Takedown a lot. Moreover, from what I see, I really like the design of R57 itself. What I don’t get is the choice of caliber. Should Ruger make it in 7.62x25 Tokarev, I would traded all of my pistols just for a couple of those. Just compare 1600 fps of 40-gr 5.7x28 to 1600 fps of 85-gr 7.62x25 Tokarev and you will get my point. Too bad that Ruger failed again to deliver an innovative practical pistol, that can be appreciated by majority of US gunners, not only by hipsters or misinformed newbies who will be unsuccessfully trying to trade their "safe queens" R57 for G19 by the end of this year. In the videos below, both official Ruger representatives say “great for home defense” while in fact it is very poor choice for home/self defense. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-l-Nyal0r36Q.html&feature=emb_logo ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-g-qoLGCbj1E.html&feature=emb_logo Let’s settle this once and for all, forget any and all bias reviews, advertisments, paid endorsements, and the ballistic gel tests where the 5.7 got it's butt kicked. Just look at the math. Since the .40, 10mm, 357 mag, and 45 are vastly more powerful lets just compare the 5.7 to the century old 9mm. Here are the stats on both of their hottest loads in pistol barrels. 4" for the 9mm and I'll even give the 5.7 the advantage of it's factory 4.8" barrel. Bullets for comparison are the top of the line S4M and the Buffalo Bore 115gr. Even though the guys in the five and seven forums say they are not getting the advertised 2600 fps we will give them the full benifit of the doubt and assume the advertising is accurate despite the fact that people have recorded 2400-2500fps in their crono. ------------------------5.7mm S4M----------9mm 115gr Energy----------------405ft/lbs------------500 ft/lbs-----Advantage 9mm Momentum----------10lbs--------------------23lbs-------Huge Advantage 9mm Frontal Area-.-------.0394-------------------.1007-------Huge Advantage 9mm Sectional Density---.08----------------------.130--------Large Advantage 9mm Now forget the ultra high performance hard to find ammo and lets focus on the stuff you can buy over the counter at any halfway respectable local gun shop. -------------------------SS195LF--------Carbon 115gr JHP Energy-----------------255ft/lbs---------466ft/lbs----Large Advantage 9mm Momentum----------- 7lbs---------------22lbs--------Huge advangage 9mm Frontal Area---------.0394--------------.1007--------Huge advantage 9mm Sectional density----.08----------------.130---------Large advantage 9mm By every measurement we know of the 9mm is superior to the soft tissue performance of the 5.7x28, I have asked on many occasions for the 5.7 junkies to explain to me what magic energy somehow makes it more deadly and nobody can explain it to me, I wounder why. Even the most hardcore 5.7 fan should understand why I am so skeptical of it's "advantages" over conventional handgun rounds. If you do the same comparison with the 40, 10mm, 357 Sig or any other modern handgun round the comparison get REAL bad for the 5.7x28. With all recent drive-by shootings, home invasions, etc., I value more and more the projectile's ability to penetrate at least 14" of a body tissue; or a glass, a car door, etc. - without significant loss of Ek = 1/2 mv2. So, unless it is $5 ea. of SS190 armor piercing rounds, otherwise commercial 5.7x28 ammo does not meet that criteria and even .22WMR from pistol barrel outperforms it. www.quotemaster.org/Ammo#&gid=1&pid=6 Therefore, without SS190, 5.7x28 is out of its element. 5.7x28 was designed to be a low-power, low-recoil round with penetration capabilities for body armor, a combination that can only work with penetrator rounds to punch those holes. Otherwise, it's mostly about novelty and perhaps wishing civilians could somehow get the good stuff and Ruger clearly exploits this. BTW, for the price of one Ruger 57 in questionable caliber people can buy two of custom PS9 pistols. P.S.: Wanna see what the real low-recoil fun gun, range toy and plinker looks like? Here you go. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-BhZ6GcWeC-U.html
Have you ever shot one? I really appreciate the data you presented, it's very clear and helpful. That being said, lemme give you a brief ballistics lesson here; If you have 20% less energy being deposited into half (or less) space, what happens? Well, give this a shot - try taking a kitchen knife, and slapping a steak with the back side of it. Then, hit it with the blade side with the same force. What are the effects of each? If you haven't tried it, I really recommend you try shooting a five seven sometime. Not at paper targets, either - a pebble can make it through paper.
I’m not sure which one would be more difficult: to trim off and to neck down 5.56 brass - to make Tokarev cases, or to neck down 10 mm and to make completely new barrel for it. Moreover, Tokarev ammo is not obsolete. S&B, Winchester, Wolf, Fiocci, Red Army, PPU still make non-corrosive Tokarev ammo.
Why is this so complicated? Why couldn't you just make a simple lever rotation takedown like a Sig. Or a push through like a CZ. Two proven dissasembly techniques, and you have to go about reinventing the wheel.
This video was terrible. I couldn’t see anything the guy was doing. Any yokel on RU-vid could have made a better video, and in fact I finally found one made by a yokel with a GoPro on his head and used that. As a Ruger stock holder and a guy who has owned Rugers for 40 years, I urge you to improve your videos. The Ruger 57 is a great gun, though. I just hope I didn’t just break mine trying to follow your video instructions.
