New Redhawks in 41 Magnum

Tech Ninja

Still a .41 magnum fan after all these years. That Redhawk would interest me but it's still a bit pricey (though it's not much more than the MSRP for other Redhawks), and those Hogue Monogrips really look terrible. For that price they really should put a decent pair of wood grips on it.

agree, it is hard to look past those grips!

Plastikosmd

Thanks for the confirmation. Those Hogues make a pair of Pachmayrs look pretty nice by comparison. Ruger has decent wood grips on some of their other Redhawks; a couple of them even have checkering. They go perfectly with a revolver. My advice to Ruger would be to lose the Hogues and put wood grips on in their place.

Can anyone give me an idea how recoil would feel if that had standard 1970s style wooden checkered grips. Does .41 magnum have as much recoil as lets say a .44 I am taking a wild guess that it does.

Wow, that's pushing almost 50 oz yet only has a 4.2" bbl.

I personally think one thing that doomed the .41 magnum from the start is that nobody ever made a properly scaled .41 gun. They all used .44 magnum frames, with .44 magnum cylinders, and often .44 magnum barrel blanks. That equates to a lot of excess steel in the gun, and this Redhawk epitomizes that.

I'd much rather have this same gun in the more powerful and more versatile, cheaper to shoot, far great available, .44 special and .44 magnum.

While .41 magnum has it's die hard fans, they are few and far between these days. The market shows that most people consider the .41 magnum a failed experiment, which does nothing that the properly scaled .357-.44 range guns don't do.

JMHO

YMMV

grter

With properly designed grips felt recoil can be greatly reduced. Case in point: the original grips on my Ruger Super Blackhawk were horrible; relatively thin wooden slabs that felt like every ounce of recoil was coming straight back into my hand and the squareback trigger guard didn't help matters either. Go forward a lot of years and I'm shooting a friend's Super Blackhawk only his gun was wearing a set of oversized Mustang Grips (I believe they were made out of walnut), which were much more ergonomic to hold and nicely filled in the space behind the trigger guard. The result was one very comfortable and easy gun to shoot without the pain and discomfort of felt recoil.

I got a model 57 and model 29 Smith, the model 57 shoots with less felt recoil than the .44 does, It makes me feel like a good 158 gr .357 mag, not terrible but does have a bit of bite, but as mentioned the red hawk is a massive gun and I'd bet recoil in that would be downright pleasant.

I have a S&W mod 57 , .41 mag. The checkered grips are unpleasant at best. I replaced them with a Hogue mono grip. Way better. I shoot a lot of .41 mag and the S&W is quite accurate. At the time i bought S&W was the only company making one.

A .41 mag is really no more expensive or harder to reload than anything else. It is NOT hard to find components etc either. You may not walk into stores and get a large selection or any at all but hand loading it is no harder or expensive than any other 40 -45 class round in reality. It was not failed and neither was the 10mm but weaker and smaller officers could not handle the rounds and that helped keep it from being a bit more popular.

There are still enough of us out here to appreciate them and like most things if you do not "get it" there is no use in splainin it to you

I had a Redhawk in 44mag. The stock grips hurt with heavy loads

I had a Redhawk in 44mag. The stock grips hurt with heavy loads

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I have Pachmayr presentation grips on a Redhawk 44 and I like them.
I have tried many Hogue grips on various revolvers I have zero Hogues now.

Tech Ninja said:

I was looking at stuff I can't afford on Davidsons and found this!

41 Redhawks

One thing I like about Ruger is that you just never know what they might make. Never would have thought anyone would make new .41 Magnums.

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I've been shooting mine for the last month and it's a kick in the pants to shoot. While the grips aren't a thing of beauty, they are comfortable.

My local Davidson's dealer is selling the Redhawk for a tad over $800.00; I'd like to have a 41mag, but the RH too ugly.

I'm with Cooldill on this one. Couldn't they put a five-shot .41 magnum cylinder in a GP100 frame? That would get my attention.

Now if we could just get one in 10mm, that'd be nice.

41 Fan

I have had 41's for two decades, a Ruger Blackhawk w/4-5/8", and more recently a S&W Model 57 Mountain Gun (4"). They both have served me well with no issues. Both have finger grooved wooden stocks without checkering and are manageable with even the hottest loads, I have shot them side by side with 44 mags and I find them (41's) easier to shoot, accurately. The new Ruger looks good and wooden grips are available from the factory, price is subjective. If you can find 80's vintage 41 Redhawk you will pay a few to several hundred more than the current price or you can get a brand new S&W Model 57 Classic in 41 for the same price point. Those who favor the 41 are like anybody else; who favor a 338 Mag or 35 Whelen or whatever, it's a matter of taste. Have fun out there !!

I put presentation grips on mine too, vast improvement