Ruger 57 Review | Is It Worth Buying? 

I’ve got about 300 rounds through mine with no issues. It’s a fun gun to shoot, but finding Ammo for it at a reasonable price is tough right now. I just saw it in the store for $50 for 50 rounds which is the cheapest I’ve seen in nearly a year.

@@HuntFishShootChannel where did u find ammo at $50 @?

A local gun store here in NE Ohio has it!

It only took 9 days to get my Ruger 57 back from Ruger and I did have some ammo for it and I took it to the range and it did what it was supposed to do it fired one right after another with no issues. Run about a hundred and fifty rounds through it and did not have any more problems. Ruger is definitely true to their word.

Are you sure you were loading it according to the instructions in the manual? Instead of just inserting the mag?

Awesome! Thank you for watching and enjoy your M17!

Love it backed up to 50 yards hit first try and i never shoot at 50 🤣

Absolutely! Super fun gun!

Heckin right brother!

Andrew happened to stumble upon a store that had 40 in stock and had it shipped to his local FFL. Besides that we have never seen one either. There’s a local gun store that typically has a huge and diverse inventory and they haven’t seen one either. Thanks for watching!

Awesome thank you!

Good glad you do!!

Thank you for watching!!! It’s a great pistol!

It’s a pretty sweet gun now that ammo is somewhat available again. I want to try the PSA 5.7… we saw it at shot show and it seemed like it was a really sweet pistol.

Do you have any leads on a IWB holster for it?

When I first purchased the gun back in April I bought several hundred rounds at about 40-50 cents per round... I thought it was expensive then, but now everything I see is about $1-1.50. Absolutely love the gun though! Especially after we put a red dot on it!

@@HuntFishShootChannel if the gun takes off as I think it will, once the ammo market calms down and they can mass produce it, I think the price will drop to between .22 LR and 223 ammo. It will be very affordable

It’s a great pistol and for the money and 5.7 options it’s perfect

You are welcome!

If you buy one, check for the ruger-57 recall first there are having trouble failing to load and I had that problem with mine and had to send it back to Ruger so I'm waiting for them to take care of it and send it back to me or a new gun whichever they have to do they'll take care of it and they will make it right, Ruger has great customer service because they want to keep their customers happy and that's why I love Ruger. This is the first Ruger firearms I had trouble with.

Great!

No you cannot. You would need some seriously high irons to cow it ness due to the optics plate design.

Depends on the situation and what you need it to be effective for!

Enjoy it!

Thank you for the tip!

The cost of 5.7 has been insane... but honestly it’s nearly impossible to find, at least that’s how it been for us. Fun range gun like you said, but it’ll stay in my safe until ammo is below $1 per round (if that ever happens).

It’s a good shooter!

Thank you for the info!

@@HuntFishShootChannel My pleasure. Here is an example of the problem. In those famous FBI shootouts. If the Agents had the FN 5.7 or the Ruger 5.7x28mm they would have done worse to stop the "bad" guys. _But_ the FBI Agent's would have penetrated their body armor & car doors. Thus, in normal every day self-defense incidents the weakness of the 5.7x28 is easily seen compared to a 9mm or .45 ACP round man stopper.

Because there are better options. And it’s lacking a lot in the form of a competition gun.

Awesome thank you! We appreciate you!

Thank you for the info and thank you for watching!

Thank you!

What does that mean

@@jaredgonzalez8421 use it to push the button in to break the weapon down

Modern pistols all have to pass drop testing to hit the market, so I wouldn’t fear too much if I were you.

Semantics.

Thank you! We have a lot in the works!

We've got the Ronin in 10mm that we will be reviewing very very soon. The 57 is a fun gun to shoot, but its impractical to shoot with the current 5.7 prices.

Isn’t that the truth! We haven’t shot this gun since that review for that very reason 😭

Try gunbot.net it can locate in stock ammo for you online. The 5.7 ammo is over $2 a round at the moment though 😢 Edit: It doesn't seem to update prices on gunbot... It lists 5.7 at around 30 cents a round but if you visit the sites they're over $2 now. Damn corona

@@TheCuriousNoob Thank you so much, I really appreciate it👍🏼

Agreed!

I don’t even know what you are talking about with this comment, but I’ll attempt to answer. The only ammo available at the time of this video was American Eagle 5.7 Hollow point stuff for $50 a box.

I don’t even know what you are talking about with this comment, but I’ll attempt to answer. The only ammo available at the time of this video was American Eagle 5.7 Hollow point stuff for $50 a box.

@@HuntFishShootChannel what I’m saying is ppl complaining About the price of defense amo for the gun I got the same gun what type of life do you live that your running out of defense ammo it’s for defense that’s why they said range ammo that’s what a person would run thru

We all have our opinions and basis for those opinion is hopefully from research! I’m glad you are enjoying it but I don’t agree with you in comparing the 5.7 caliber to a .223 or 5.56 because ballistically they aren’t even close. Average muzzle energy of a 5.7 in a pistol length barrel is a mere 220 lb ft (Only 330 lb ft carbine length barrel) compared to a little over 1300 lb ft from a 5.56 round. For reference 9mm has a little over 400 average across the board granted it will not penetrate quite like a 5.7 but the wound cavity will be much greater. If the 5.7 works well for you and you will trust your life to it, it’s certainly better than nothing and you are comfortable with it. However in my opinion as a self defense/edc gun, the 9mm, 40 cal, 10mm and 45 ACP all surpass the the 5.7, particular in the ever so important, real world effect of stopping power. With all this being said practice and good hits on the threat are all that really matter.

@@HuntFishShootChannel but the rounds you mentioned are about half the velocity which is after all what makes 5.56 deadly

@@Azznbad the 5.7 loses it's energy very quickly and if you're not using a defensive round the desired stopping effect may not be achieved. I considered carrying mine, but I don't trust the V-max ammo for consistent expansion. I think the rounds that really hyped the 57 platform up are not available to the public, just military and law enforcement. I'm starting to see the Speer Gold Dot rds more, but at $100+ per box. They're moving at 1800 fps and may have the best defensive stopping power with good expansion.

Or you are Iron Man, we will never know

You’re done. Done like a crappy overcooked steak.

@@HuntFishShootChannel - a great, articulate response…lol. Can’t say that I’m surprised.

I frankly don’t have the time, nor the energy, to combat half the ignorance we are privy to on this platform. Not to say we get some really well educated comments or responses either. Therefore I responded with an immature response which made me happy at the time. Would you like an articulate response which you will disagree with and then attempt to discredit said response?

Tool less takedown isn’t new by any means. The purpose of the review is to be critical and look at it from all perspectives, we are basically just noting that this is a slight inconvenience vs the majority of market.

Unfortunately that’s the case.

Good thing I have some practice shooting around vehicles! 😂

@@HuntFishShootChannel its just a Nissan lol 😆

Richard if you don’t like the review of the gun please direct us to the review you completed so we may learn how it is done! Thank you! Now with that being said, it’s not a gun I would recommend for defensive purposes as there’re better options. It’s a blast too shoot even with ammo being expensive. We haven’t had any issues with ours and I try to be objective. I do not give my personal opinion unless I think it’s necessary, and even then in our other reviews I will specifically say “In my opinion...”. Thank you for watching!

Thanks for responding to my post, I’ve been tracking the feedback on the Ruger since it’s debut as well as tested it at my range shortly after it’s release. I live on a farm and have close friends that own a gun store, so I had access to one early on. And I stock piled 57 ammo years ago when PSA had it for $14 a box for the American Eagle. So I shot 400-500 rds through it. Because I own more than one 57 weapon I was intrigued when the Ruger hit the market. I was initially impressed with the Ruger except for the manual’s warning regarding carrying it hot. And very disappointed that they couldn’t or didn’t produce a lighter crisper trigger. The gun shop’s R 57 has seen heavy use and has experienced several issues 1. Rusty magazines 2. Finish coming off the slide 3. Their gunsmith’s observation of the polymer recoil rod being eaten by the spring 4. Finally the mag release pin walking out. Granted this gun has a very high round count. But it was well maintained and several of these issues occurred early on. I would also direct you to the owner of Elite Ammunition Jay Wolf. ( if you’re not familiar with his company, they are all things 57 ). He manufacturers self defense and hunting quality 57 ammo and does extensive gunsmithing upgrades on most of the weapons in the 57x28 world. He has tested the Ruger extensively using new runs of his ammunition in it for ballistic data. He has found similar issues and has a very low regard for this offering. Also consider that this is potentially a nice addition to his customer base so he wants it to succeed! Check Jay Wolf on RU-vid. In closing, I wanted to like this gun, unfortunately Ruger cut to many corners for me. So for now I’ll stick with FN and when Ruger 57 gen 2 comes out I’ll be one of the first ones to check it out. I’ll be subscribing to your channel because of your thoughtful response to my posy. Best Regards, Rich

We appreciate your feedback and your input Rich! I will definitely have to check out Elite Ammunition. I will say this, my dad recently bought the FN Five Seven and overall build quality and fitment is much nicer but it cost him about 1k vs the 650 Andrew had paid for the ruger. I say just run it! Then repair the parts when you need to, handguns in general are easier to repair or replace worn parts. Thank you for the sub!

We would have to disagree but that’s ok because triggers are subjective! Thank you for watching!

Don't get me wrong, shoots great,bought it used with 4 mags,750 rounds for a grand! My pandemic panic buy. There is a drop in trigger for it by victory trigger ,I think. I would not carry it cocked and locked without the new trigger

The trigger is by tandemkross

Not on mine. Smooth, and a nice felt short reset.

They are still quite a bit cheaper than the pistols by FN!