![]() ![]() Not what we might consider normal, but that appears to be the only place the engineers had to put them. The ejector is frame-mounted and rides through a slot impinging on the empty case at about the 6 o’clock position. The extractor is a hinged, external setup that contacts the case at about 11 o’clock as you look at the breech face. Initial take up required about a half-inch of movement, and reset was a bit long, but that may be getting picky. We found the trigger to be of a reasonable weight, but a bit creepy. The pistol uses Ruger’s Secure Action Trigger with the trigger-mounted blade safety. Anyone remotely familiar with 1911-style safeties should be right at home with these. The frame has ambidextrous thumb safeties that are a bit on the thin side, but they worked well for us. The shooter will find a fire-control group CNC milled from aluminum nestled in a glass-filled nylon frame. With the slide removed, the working parts are exposed. Remove it and the barrel, and you’re done. Lift out the captured recoil spring from the rear. When the slide looks like it is about a quarter-inch ahead of where it would be while in battery, you should be able to gently lift the slide off. Depress the slide stop, allowing the slide to move forward. Rotate the lever 90 degrees clockwise and stop. This motion extends the takedown lever on the left side of the frame to the point where it is accessible. Use some non-marring tool and depress that pin, pushing right to left. ![]() You will find a hollow pin projecting just above and forward of the trigger. Lock the slide to the rear and look on the right side of the frame. Takedown is a bit interesting, but there are great pictures in the owner’s manual, so you shouldn’t have any issues at all. Be sure you get the right mounting screws from the manufacturer of your red-dot sight. None of those are supplied with the pistol, but they can be ordered at. The top of the slide is drilled and tapped for adapter plates that can be used with most of the current crop of red-dot sights. The front is big enough to see without totally filling the rear sight notch - an arrangement we prefer. The front sight is a well-protected fiber-optic tube, also in a dovetail. The rear is a fixture, mounted in a dovetail, that is adjustable for elevation and windage. The 57 arrived with a great set of sights. Order the base for the sight you need from. The Ruger is drilled and tapped for a red-dot base. The internal hammer is visible through a port in the rear of the slide. The slide also has curved grooves cut fore and aft as cocking serrations. This pistol just did not move much when we pressed the trigger. The lower mass of the slide not only helps reliability for the 57, it also allows for less muzzle flip. The top of the forward end of the slide has been milled out, and about 50% of the length of the slide sports a scalloped area that further reduces weight. Because of that, spring pressure is a bit heavy, and the weight of the slide is critical. In contrast to a tilting-barrel lockup, with its mechanical connection to the slide for a short time, the Ruger-57 relies on slide mass/weight and spring pressure to keep the chamber sealed while pressure drops. The slide continues to the rear, ejecting the spent case and stripping another off the magazine as it moves forward to begin the cycle again. ![]() By that point, the bullet has left the muzzle and pressure has dropped enough to allow the breech to open. Unlike most blowback designs, where the barrel is fixed, the barrel on the 57 moves to the rear for a short distance (about 0.25 inch) in step with the slide. When the trigger is pressed, the pistol fires essentially single-action with the barely-visible internal hammer having been cocked by the reciprocating alloy-steel slide. Notice-Bulk Item Packaging.Please note that this item ships in its own packaging, so the contents may be identified.The Ruger-57 is a hammer-fired delayed-blowback semi-auto pistol.Notice-Pay Pal.This item may not be purchased by using the Pay Pal method of payment. ![]()
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