Ruger Alaskan info

[Guest YANKEE2500]

Anyone shooting a Ruger Alaskan 454 2.5" barrel? I'm thinking of getting one and would like to hear from anyone who has or had one, and there experience and opinions of it. I am not recoil sensitive and realize it is not an all day range gun. (just want to get rid of some squirrels in my yard)

Thanks

John

[Guest Jamie]

You do know the difference between a bear and a squirrel, don't you?

If not, then I don't even wanna know what size the squirrels must be, around your place...

J.

[kb4ns]

They get pretty big around his neck of the woods-

It's not just their size, it's their views-

[graycrait]

A friend of mine used to bring his .454 Alaskan to the range with his handloads. He would give the the gun to me so I could "show" those assembled how a double action revolver was supposed to be shot in double action. I loved shooting a cylinder or two through that thing as fast as I could trying to hit the steel plates. It was comparatively slow getting those followup shots but not as slow as I originally thought it was going to be. Seemed to me some pretty costly fun. Nice gun for an experienced reloader I suppose. I'm sure there is a use for it other than letting knuckleheads like me blow off ammo at a range. Around here I'm not quite sure what that practical use would be.

[Guest RangeMstr]

I like shooting .45LC in mine. I keep fullhouse 454's in it when it's in home defense mode though. By the way the barrel length is actually 2.75" not 2.5"

[eapking]

Yeah those squirells will be little puffs of fur with a 454. Here's a good revolver site where you can find lots of threads on Alaskans. Btw, you gotta hit those "squirells" dead on in the nose or you won't stop them.