![]() ![]() The ‘57s ambi thumb safety operated very smoothly in both directions and was perfectly positioned to manipulate without breaking grip. ![]() It’s a fairly long pull, but smooth and predictable with no overtravel, and despite its unusual qualities we quickly got used to it and actually wound up liking the overall pull. ![]() The safety blade depresses with virtually no effort, then there’s about 1/4-inch of take-up at a pull weight of about a pound to a semi-hard wall, a signal that “you’re getting there.” From the semi-hard wall to the break there’s another 1/4-inch or so of travel with a tad of very light stacking at an average pull weight of about five pounds. Mercifully, there’s no magazine drop safety. We did find the flush magazine release button to be awkward to reach and depress without breaking the firing grip. Other external controls include a slide catch/release lever, take-down lever, easily reversible magazine release button and trigger with Glock-like safety blade. The almost-5-inch long barrel is bushingless and a Picatinny rail allows attachment of a white-light illuminators or laser (or both in the case of the SureFire X400 Ultra pictured.) Grip texturing and grip ergonomics are both better than the Ruger’s competition. The Ruger-57 ships with two 20-round steel magazines, or 10-rounders for those not lucky enough to live in a free state. Unfortunately for lefties, there is no safety notch on the right-hand side of the slide, so there’s no red dot to be seen. Another nice feature is a big red dot visible through the slide’s safety notch when the safety lever is down, indicating that the gun is off-safe. Safety manipulation in either direction is perfect-not so tight as to require any real effort to engage or disengage, but tight enough to prevent inadvertently sweeping it off-safe. It’s long, slim and perfectly placed for putting the pistol on- or off-safe without breaking the firing grip. Moving down, the ambidextrous manual safety is one of the best we’ve encountered. Like the slide, sights and all metal controls, it is finished in black phosphate. ![]() The 4.94-inch, bushingless barrel is machined from alloy steel and 8-grove rifled at a 1:9-inch RH twist rate. Of the ejection port, just to the left of the external extractor/ejector, serves as a loaded chamber indicator by permitting the shooter to see the head of a cartridge if one is present in the chamber. Rear is drilled and tapped for easy mounting of a red-dot sight with an optional adapter plate available at. The through-hardened billet steel alloy slide with lightening cuts and grasping groves front and Starting at the top, the Ruger 57 offers a fully adjustable, serrated rear sight andĪ green fiber optic front sight, both dovetailed into the slide. Optic-mounting plates are available separately for most popular red-dot sight platforms, as are holsters and a slew of other accessories on Ruger’s website. The Ruger-57’s sighting system leaves zero to complain about - the front being a bright fiber-optic and the rear being fully adjustable with a half-serrated face. Priced at $799-just over half the cost of an FN Five-seveN-the Ruger 57 should go a long way toward popularizing this cartridge. Guess you’ll just have to chronograph some out of your new Ruger 57 pistol (our chronograph, unfortunately bit the dust while testing this pistol.)Īnnounced last December, and introduced at the 2020 SHOT Show, the new Ruger 57 pistol is a better looking-as in “more American”-alternative to the FN Five-seven. None of the manufacturers, however, stated test barrel lengths, so we don’t know if these velocities apply to the 4.8-inch barreled Five-seveN pistol or the 16-inch barreled P90 PDW. bullets of various types (FMJ, HP, polymer tip) at published muzzle velocities ranging from 1,655 to 2,150 f.p.s. Current commercial loadings from FN, Speer and Federal American Eagle (the most affordable of the bunch) include 27- to 40-gr. The slightly rebated rim measured 0.305” in diameter, with a shoulder angle is 35 degrees It fires a. Case length of a loaded round measured 1.136” and 0.312” in diameter along the untapered body. The 5.7×28mm looks like a tiny bottlenecked rifle cartridge with a rebated rim. Unfortunately-or perhaps fortunately-FN restricts the sale of this round to military and law enforcement only. When fired from the P90’s 16-inch barrel, the 5.7×28mm loaded with FN’s SS190 steel penetrator round will penetrate both NATO CRISAT and NIJ Level IIIA Kevlar vests at a range of 200 meters. Unlike most new cartridges, it has no parent case-the complete package was developed from scratch by FN for their FN P90 PDW and FN Five-seveN pistol in response to a NATO request for a replacement for the 9x19mm Parabellum cartridge that would penetrate body armor. The FN 5.7×28mm cartridge is a small-caliber, high-velocity, centerfire cartridge designed for handgun and personal defense weapon (PDW) uses. ![]()
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