How much lead??

[Glaciers]

Yeah it just gets worse.
Of course it’s a sliding scale of mileage and time

 

[RicinYakima]

And sorry to say much of my mileage is around town, and not much freeway cruising.

 

[Matt_G]

It seems like there is/was maybe a sticky over there about something like 25000 WC through a M29 and counting. I read part of it up to having broken 30k . That was several years ago.

That thread is at the other site.
It's one of the good threads over there.
Of course, we could be talking about two different threads...

 

[fiver]

i remember one that was running a long time back.

 

[Foo]

I've speculated on what it would take to wear out a GP100 from use (not abuse). I can't really imagine what the round count would be. I know I probably couldn't afford the ammo bill!

I think I've had my stainless GP100 around 35 yrs. Still looks almost like new. many thousands of rnds thru it of all kinds of bullets. Mostly cast though. I think the worthiness of these revolvers would stand up to anyone's revolvers. It gets 5/5 stars from me.

 

[dale2242]

Ruger GP100s, Super Black Hawks, and Red Hawks are some of the toughest revolvers made.
I wore out a M29 in a few thousand rounds.

 

[CWLONGSHOT]

Got a txt from
My buddy last week he found a new scrapper with buku lead. Selling sorted COWW 1$ 1#!! (Yes we bought "some")

 

[dannyd]

Ruger GP100s, Super Black Hawks, and Red Hawks are some of the toughest revolvers made.
I wore out a M29 in a few thousand rounds.

Great thing about a GP if you run out of bullets grab it by the barrel and use it as a club.

 

[Winelover]

Great thing about a GP if you run out of bullets grab it by the barrel and use it as a club.

Pretty much all Rugers are that way, overbuilt.

 

[Walks]

In My Cowboy Shooting days, up to 10lbs a month. 1988-2009. Not counting 100+ lbs of shotgun shells. Lead was cheap or free back in those days.