Ruger 5.7 Leaked

[tuna quesadilla]

In 2009, at Fort Hood, the terrorist used a 5.7, killed 19, but 30 people survived their gunshot wounds.

Shhh, don't tell the caliber fanatics. They're already coming out all over this thread.

[ar15barrels]

Now if they did this in a light weight walking Varminter bolt gun they would have a hot seller.

I have thought about doing this for a long time.
I even picked up a chamber reamer.
What I have not worked out is what I would want for the magazine and what action to use.
A CZ 22 hornet action would be about perfect, but then what would I gain over just sticking with the Hornet or K-Hornet?

[Whiterabbit]

I have thought about doing this for a long time.
I even picked up a chamber reamer.
What I have not worked out is what I would want for the magazine and what action to use.
A CZ 22 hornet action would be about perfect, but then what would I gain over just sticking with the Hornet or K-Hornet?

[Quiet]

Doesn't secret service use 5.7? It must be worth something...

US Secret Service uses it out of a submachinegun (FN P-90TR).

US Secret Service recently went from the SIG P-229DAK in .357SIG to Glock pistols in 9x19mm (19Gen5 MOS FS, 26Gen5, and 47).
^19Gen5 MOS FS for everyone. Special Operations Division get the 47 & 26Gen5.

[SomeGuy75]

[Quiet]

Buying a 5.7 for $2000?
Only the most operator of us.
Buying a 5.7 for $399?
Any of us with a wallet and a whim.

If a low cost 5.7x28mm pistol is the gateway, wouldn't the MasterPiece Arms MPA57DMG have been that gateway?
Since it came out about seven years ago, uses the FN Five-seveN magazines and were being sold for around $500.

[Palmaris]

If a low cost 5.7x28mm pistol is the gateway, wouldn't the MasterPiece Arms MPA57DMG have been that gateway?
Since it came out about seven years ago, uses the FN Five-seveN magazines and were being sold for around $500.

It is huge and ugly.

[ds272]

Just saw the MSRP is $799. It's a little higher than I expected...Probably will be able to find it in the non-California wild around $600 after the initial rush subsides.

[JTROKS]

I have thought about doing this for a long time.
I even picked up a chamber reamer.
What I have not worked out is what I would want for the magazine and what action to use.
A CZ 22 hornet action would be about perfect, but then what would I gain over just sticking with the Hornet or K-Hornet?

The 5.7 is shorter than the Hornets.

Big advantage is having a sidearm chambered in the same caliber as your rifle.

[Whiterabbit]

Couple thoughts on that.

I don't save anything in the rifle weight if I have a magnum length actoin chambered in 5.7x28. In other words, if I have to carry a rifle with a 223 sized action, it doesn't make any sense to get one in 22 hornet or 5.7x28 unless I have some other vested interest in that cartridge. May as well stay 223 rem. Noone chambers intermediate length actions in short action cartridges unless they want to take advantage of the extra space. If an action existed long enough for 5.7x28 but too long for 223, that DOES give me some advantage. That would be rather neat, in fact.

Given the need for another vested interest, having a sidearm chambered in the same cartridge does NOT, for me, count. I learned that with 357 and 45 colt/cassul/S&W. In the field, it feels totally useless to have a 45 colt rifle with a 45 colt vaquero on the belt.

Where I might see some vested interest is if I had a rifle chambered in something more powerful than 5.7x28, but used the same 40 cal bullets. (k-hornet? 222 rem?). That would mean I could buy the 40 cals by the barrel full and use them across my reloading. But I'd have to think about that. Because that didn't pan out with my 460 S&W and 45 colts.

I'd also feel really silly in the field with a classic blue steel and wood 22 hornet, carrying 3+1, with a plastic space-gun 5.7x28 on the hip with 3x 30 round magazines around the belt. REALLY silly.

No, I think the 5.7x28 really has to stand alone as a really neat cartridge. double-neat if we lived in free states where we could have a PS90 or P90 with standard cap mags.

[tuna quesadilla]

I'd also feel really silly in the field with a classic blue steel and wood 22 hornet, carrying 3+1, with a plastic space-gun 5.7x28 on the hip with 3x 30 round magazines around the belt. REALLY silly.

Why?

[elSquid]

https://www.ruger.com/micros/57/

[ar15barrels]

The 5.7 is shorter than the Hornets.

Exactly.
Length does not matter one bit when you are using a Hornet action/magazine to build on.

[S.A.]

The Ruger looks better than the FNH.

[rimfire]

It is hammered