{"id":25247,"date":"2019-12-31T13:06:17","date_gmt":"2019-12-31T19:06:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=25247"},"modified":"2019-12-31T13:06:17","modified_gmt":"2019-12-31T19:06:17","slug":"25247","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=25247","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

Tested: Ruger-57 Pistol<\/a><\/p>\n

With precious few guns on the market chambered to fire it, and even fewer load options for those guns, the 5.7×28 mm FN cartridge has seemingly been on life support for most of its 30-year lifespan, kept alive only through the patronage of a small but dedicated fan club and select military\/government agency adoption. That\u2019s a shame, because it\u2019s an interesting little chambering, offering several intrinsic design advantages, and it is an absolute hoot to shoot. Caught in a self-perpetuating loop where a deficit of firearm options has led ammunition makers to deem it unworthy of their finite production resources\u2014and vice versa\u2014what the 5.7 mm has really needed to help resuscitate it was a major gunmaker willing to break the vicious circle by taking a chance on it. That it was\u00a0Ruger\u00a0to step up to the plate, with its December introduction of the Ruger-57 handgun<\/a>, should not come as any great shock to those familiar with the Southport, Conn., company\u2019s reputation for seeing opportunity where others just see risk.<\/p>\n

Operating via delayed blowback, the Ruger-57\u2019s barrel moves rearward with the slide only about 1\/4″, but its long enough to allow the projectile to leave the barrel and for pressures to drop to safe levels.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Tested: Ruger-57 Pistol With precious few guns on the market chambered to fire it, and even fewer load options for those guns, the 5.7×28 mm FN cartridge has seemingly been on life support for most of its 30-year lifespan, kept alive only through the patronage of a small but dedicated fan club and select military\/government … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gun-schtuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25247"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25248,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25247\/revisions\/25248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}