Ruger 44 mag Super Blackhawk

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I dropped by the local gun store to drool over 44 magnums again. I've been wanting a single action to keep me company in the truck next hunting season for maybe a whitetail or two.
Anyway, a new one jumped out of the case and latched onto me like a new puppy. And like a new puppy, it followed me home!
It's a Lipsey Ruger model 0820, whereas the regular Ruger is a 0802. I thought it was a typo, but it's not according to their website. I tried to see the difference but can't. Any ideas? 20170409_212113.jpg
I broke it in today with 8.0, 9.0, and 10.0 Unique under a 240 Missouri Kieth.
Leading: I got some, but hey, it's the first 50 rounds out of the gate so I expected it. I don't ever plan on shooting a jacketed bullet from this gun!
Accuracy: Did manage a 2" 5 shot group at 25 yards.
Trigger: Is looolong and a little rough. Balance: little muzzle heavy, but helps steady off hand shooting.
Recoil: very acceptable with todays reloads, probably because of weight.
Sights: Had to run elevation all the way down to get on target as seen here at 25 yards. Will determine if sights are problem after I try other loads.
Hammer: silver with nice wide spur
Barrel: warning is under barrel out of sight
 
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It looks like a run of the mill sbh to me, standard flagship of ruger for many years, in fact my first purchase at 19 from a private deal was a sbh in that exact config for 375 . I miss that gun sold it for more than I paid.
 
If you are going to feed that gun hard cast as a steady diet, I would suggest that you slug the barrel and check the chamber throats. All of my SBHs seem to like a cast bullet of .431 to .432 over the more common .429 or .430. Leading gets pretty bad with the undersized slugs.
Also a session of fire lapping will help get out any tooling marks in the bore and give it a highly polished, tapered profile. Leading will likely disappear altogether and it will literally require only 2 patches to clean.

The main benefit is that it can turn an average SBH into a serious tack driver.
 
I shoot the MBC coated 240gr in mine. NO LEADING. It's a tiny cost to prevent leading and yes, it's a tack driver at most any range!
 
I did try the missouri .430 240 kieth in the cylinder throats and it was a push through fit. They mike .430 or a tad over. So your're having good luck with coated missouri. May have to try that although I wanted to stick with straight lead.
Lipsey responded to my query of difference and they said, Ruger put the leftover 50th anniversary Rosewood grips with the medallion on the 0820 and called it the 0820 vs the 0802.
Mine cost $525 + t.

Thanks to all and any more info appreciated.
 
More info from Lipsey!
Gun was not a Ruger/Lipsey spec'd gun, but rather a special Ruger model (0820) which Lipsey bought the total production.
Trying to get total number and year (s) of production now.
 
Not to pick nits but they're cocobolo, not rosewood. I understand that cocobolo is a type of rosewood but the woods referred to as "rosewood" (there are several) are differentiated from cocobolo.
 
Catpop said:
I dropped by the local gun store to drool over 44 magnums again. I've been wanting a single action to keep me company in the truck next hunting season for maybe a whitetail or two.
Anyway, a new one jumped out of the case and latched onto me like a new puppy. And like a new puppy, it followed me home!
It's a Lipsey Ruger model 0820, whereas the regular Ruger is a 0802. I thought it was a typo, but it's not according to their website. I tried to see the difference but can't. Any ideas?View attachment 233016
I broke it in today with 8.0, 9.0, and 10.0 Unique under a 240 Missouri Kieth.
Leading: I got some, but hey, it's the first 50 rounds out of the gate so I expected it. I don't ever plan on shooting a jacketed bullet from this gun!
Accuracy: Did manage a 2" 5 shot group at 25 yards.
Trigger: Is looolong and a little rough. Balance: little muzzle heavy, but helps steady off hand shooting.
Recoil: very acceptable with todays reloads, probably because of weight.
Sights: Had to run elevation all the way down to get on target as seen here at 25 yards. Will determine if sights are problem after I try other loads.
Hammer: silver with nice wide spur
Barrel: warning is under barrel out of sight
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I am shooting 9.5 Unique/240 lead in my 50th Aniiversary.
 
Realgun,
Any thread choke leading?
Which 240 gr boolit are you using?
Did you have to crank the rear sight all the way down?
 
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Nice new old Ruger Super Blackhawk. Congrats!
Just bought one myself with the longer barrel. Should be here next week.
 
Catpop said:
Realgun,
Any thread choke leading?
Which 240 gr boolit are you using?
Did you have to crank the rear sight all the way down?
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Rear sight all the way down. Bullets were Oregon Trail with alox. Couldn't say about thread choke. Nothing obvious there.
 
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