![]() But the GP100-designed for a steady diet of full-power. Then, with the GP100 in the catalog, they had eclipsed Colt and were biting on S&W’s butt for market domination when the great wave of autoloader adoption swept the police market and brought about the end of the service revolver era. When Ruger had introduced their Security-Six 15 years earlier, they made great inroads into a service revolver market dominated by S&W and Colt. ![]() (There are reasons why Kalashnikov and Bill Ruger got along so well in person.) It was a rugged beast, very accurate, built the way Mikhail Kalashnikov would have built a revolver. ![]() Ruger brought out the GP100-essentially, a “.41-frame” revolver, similar to the Colt Python and S&W L-Frame series-in 1986. “Why?” Ruger’s Brandon Trevino gave the best possible answer: “Because we had customers who wanted it.” One of them was the GP100 rendered as a short-barreled, 5-shot. 22 pistol (see Holt’s Rimfire column) with quick and easy takedown/reassembly, the soft-shooting Compact version of their American 9mm (review coming soon!) and a couple of new revolvers definitely out of the mainstream today. At a September writers’ conference at the Texas’ FTW Ranch, Ruger showed us the way cool Mark IV.
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