Posted: 4/16/2010 2:15:17 PM EDT
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I saw one at the local sporting goods store here in town for $419. I don't think its NIB at that price but did look clean and in good shape.
I've been thinking of getting a wheel gun for carry since I don't currently own one. Is the Ruger LCR a good piece? Any other suggestions, new or used for $500 or less? |
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I saw one at the local sporting goods store here in town for $419. I don't think its NIB at that price but did look clean and in good shape. I've been thinking of getting a wheel gun for carry since I don't currently own one. Is the Ruger LCR a good piece? Any other suggestions, new or used for $500 or less? $419.00 is about the average price for a NEW LCR. The LCR is a great concealed carry weapon. I carry mine every day. |
| I'm usually not a big fan of Ruger stuff but I am impressed with the LCR. My Dad uses one for concealed carry and in my opinion his LCR is much easier to shoot than my S&W. The LCR seems to recoil less and I think that the sights on it are better than the ones on the S&W, the S&W is a little smaller but if I was buying a revolver for CCW it would be the Ruger. |
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Here are my thoughts on the LCR.
Its nice and light, it fits in my jeans front pocket, and it doesn't snag coming out. It has the nicest trigger pull of any out of the box small fsrame .38 I have ever shot. It should be very corrosion resistant, and so far, it has been. It will handle +p cartridges, which is about as much as I can handle in a revolver of that weight. As you can maybe tell, I like mine. 
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Please please please at least hold a Taurus TCP in your hand and try the trigger before you buy a P3AT or an LCR. It has a great reset instead of a full reset like the others.
I carry a 1911 everyday. With the TCP in my weak hand pocket, the idea being if I can't get one I can get the other. I can actually rapid fire the TCP, I never could with my Kel Tec. It's also seems to be much more accurate for me than the Kel Tec, probably again because of the trigger. buk |
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Please please please at least hold a Taurus TCP in your hand and try the trigger before you buy a P3AT or an LCR. It has a great reset instead of a full reset like the others. I carry a 1911 everyday. With the TCP in my weak hand pocket, the idea being if I can't get one I can get the other. I can actually rapid fire the TCP, I never could with my Kel Tec. It's also seems to be much more accurate for me than the Kel Tec, probably again because of the trigger. buk I'm not familiar with the Taurus TCP. Is it hammerless? |
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Please please please at least hold a Taurus TCP in your hand and try the trigger before you buy a P3AT or an LCR. It has a great reset instead of a full reset like the others. I carry a 1911 everyday. With the TCP in my weak hand pocket, the idea being if I can't get one I can get the other. I can actually rapid fire the TCP, I never could with my Kel Tec. It's also seems to be much more accurate for me than the Kel Tec, probably again because of the trigger. buk I'm not familiar with the Taurus TCP. Is it hammerless? |
When it came time for a small concealed carry revolver I was split between the LCR and a Smith and Wesson 642. The LCR has a slightly larger grip but since I didn't really plan on pocket carrying I went with the LCR and am glad I did. Its super light, very accurate and very concealable IWB. Do it.. |
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http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g201/natalie3212/nat/rafael/DSCN0910-1.jpg When it came time for a small concealed carry revolver I was split between the LCR and a Smith and Wesson 642. The LCR has a slightly larger grip but since I didn't really plan on pocket carrying I went with the LCR and am glad I did. Its super light, very accurate and very concealable IWB. Do it.. I don't have one, but a guy at work does and he loves it. Says the trigger is the best of any of his pistols - and he has a lot of them. Oddly enough, he preached about how great that Cross Breed holster is too for a good half hour. |
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Quoted: Quoted: http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g201/natalie3212/nat/rafael/DSCN0910-1.jpg When it came time for a small concealed carry revolver I was split between the LCR and a Smith and Wesson 642. The LCR has a slightly larger grip but since I didn't really plan on pocket carrying I went with the LCR and am glad I did. Its super light, very accurate and very concealable IWB. Do it.. I don't have one, but a guy at work does and he loves it. Says the trigger is the best of any of his pistols - and he has a lot of them. Oddly enough, he preached about how great that Cross Breed holster is too for a good half hour. You should listen to the guy at work, on both accounts  |
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Quoted: http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g201/natalie3212/nat/rafael/DSCN0910-1.jpg When it came time for a small concealed carry revolver I was split between the LCR and a Smith and Wesson 642. The LCR has a slightly larger grip but since I didn't really plan on pocket carrying I went with the LCR and am glad I did. Its super light, very accurate and very concealable IWB. Do it.. Why not carry a full speed strip? |
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Quoted: Quoted: http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g201/natalie3212/nat/rafael/DSCN0910-1.jpg When it came time for a small concealed carry revolver I was split between the LCR and a Smith and Wesson 642. The LCR has a slightly larger grip but since I didn't really plan on pocket carrying I went with the LCR and am glad I did. Its super light, very accurate and very concealable IWB. Do it.. Why not carry a full speed strip? Just my guess though.
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My family bought my 60+ year old mother an LCR for her birthday. It is the only gun larger than a .22 that she can shoot comfortably with her arthritis.
The gun is sweet. Great trigger, manageable recoil, and very lightweight. I load some light weight bullets for practice, and the recoil is not bad at all. Buy one. |
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I bought one for the wifey last Christmas. I put an orange plug in the tip of the barrel and put in her Christmas stocking. She thought it was Airsoft at first and thought that I had meant to put it into the kid's stocking instead. I pulled the plug out of the barrel and opened the cylinder to show her that it was the real thing.
She actually CARRIES this one (her SP101 stayed on the nightstand because it was too heavy in her purse) It shoots sweet too with the reduced recoil HP loads that I put in it for her. She has hand problems and can't shoot full-boat Mags or +P's anymore, but it would do the job on the average ferral human that she might encounter.
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