Varminterror
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Love the 41, but I'll get buried with a 44.
I completely forgot about that!
I really prefer a side-loading lever, but I do have a Henry in 22LR and it's not that much of a hassle to reload.
http://www.gunbroker.com/Lever-Action-Rifles/BI.aspx?ca=5000119&mo=3001275
There's some Marlin's available.
I seem to get marginally better accuracy out of my .41s than the .44s overall.But why the .41 Magnum over the .44 Magnum?
I am able to shoot 41 Mag in a Ruger Flat Top, which I can't do in 44 Mag in a model that indexes on the loading gate. My love for 44 Mag relies on DA guns.We haven't had a good caliber war in a while. So, .41 vs .44 - which do you prefer for what purpose and why?
I wonder if they were comparing kinetic energies in reference to stopping power. In the end, the bigger frame and heavier load to carry would have been its undoing, I expect.In the early 1970s, the San Francisco Police Department specified the S&W Model 57 for uniformed officers in the Patrol Bureau. The guys I worked with howled at having to retire their Pythons and Model 28s. It was never clear to me why that move happened.
My 41 Special is a GP100 conversion holding 6 rounds. My understanding is that the GP100 is not stout enough to be a 41 Magnum, at least in Ruger's view. I believe they would be thinking Redhawk, which is too big a gun to be a practical carry except maybe for hunting.I no longer have a .41 magnum. It went when I started consolidating cartridges to reload for. Have several .44s. BUT, and as I have posted before, if Ruger would put a five-shot .41 magnum cylinder in a 3-inch GP100 frame, I'd be all over it like white on rice!
Actually, my 41 Mag NMBH Flat Top indexes on the loading gate, but I know of nothing comparable in 44 Mag.I had two 41 Magnums Ruger Blackhawks in the mid-eighties. I love them. but there's nothing that 41 can do better than my 44.
So I wound up trading them off for something else but the 41 is a nice caliber I just prefer the 44
Not much advantage in a S&W context, but Ruger is a different story. My Flat Top NM Blackhawk 41 is unique.A 41 Magnum is on the list sometime down the road but mostly for having fun working with a new cartridge. Since most 41 Magnums are built on a 44 Magnum frame, there really is not much advantage.
A 41 Magnum S&W L frame would be interesting and might have some advantages over the Model 69 44 Magnum.
Exact same gun except for the chambering.Is that a New Model like mine?
What other design flaws get a pass? This loading gate issue became critical with the Ruger Single Seven with such a small loading gate developed for 22 LR serving for 32 caliber. The Flat Tops and Vaqueros index properly but not the rest. Imagine a SAA gun that didn't index properly. I think Ruger knows it is an issue of controversy.I don't really consider indexing on the loading gate to be much to get excited about. I suppose it is convenient, but it would not factor into my choice of either gun or caliber.
Link to .41mag Henry ???
I took it that there is no such gun.Not to be snarky but there's this thing called Google. You really should try it some time.
Or you could even just go to the Henry website!
https://www.henryrifles.com/rifles/henry-big-boy-steel/
I took it that there is no such gun.
I had gone to the website, and they have .41 buried in one category. I missed it, and didn't recall that I was previously aware of the offering. As long as they are dabbling in calibers in an "economy" model, I wish they would do the .327 Federal Magnum, a natural for a pistol caliber rifle.Yet there it is on their website and here it is for sale!
http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/BrowseItems2.aspx?ca=5000119&mfg=1000128&Cats=3023
What other design flaws get a pass?
This loading gate issue became critical with the Ruger Single Seven with such a small loading gate developed for 22 LR serving for 32 caliber.
Actually we were talking about sensitivity to loading gate indexing.Ones that don't pose any trouble to me. Maybe some are more dexterous than others? I don't know. Pretty much a nonissue though. I don't index against the pawl.
Thought we were talking about .41 magnum vs .44 magnum, not small bores?