My First Single Action!!!

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After a range outing early this morning, I was in the mood to get rid of one of my semi-autos (just didn't like the feel of it, or the grouping, had feeding problems, and multiple FTF/FTE :banghead: ). Anyway, long story short, I came home from the gun store with my first single action revolver . . . Ruger New Model Super Blackhawk in .44 mag, 5 1/2" barrel, shop owner threw in a set of Hogue replacement grips with it.

Wow! What a gorgeous gun. It is a used gun, but the thread on revolver checkout really made me more confident on the purchase.

Can't wait to get back to the range, unfortunately that will probably be a few weeks down the road.

At least now I have an excuse to buy a nice leather belt and holster rig for it. :D
 
That was my first SA revolver as well...but not my last. Added 2 Bird's Head Vaqueros to the herd this month.

Depending on how much your's was fired, you may see a significant improvement on the trigger as it breaks in.

Nice choice!
 
You done good! Ruger SA's are great guns, tough as they come and usually reasonably accurte. The .44 mag caliber is great because you can shoot anything from mild .44 special (or even .44 russian) all the way up to the 'burn-blind-deafen' heavy loaded 300gr+ bullets for hunting dangerous game animules. Again, great choice. Now, get out there, get some ammo and just TRY to wear that sucker out! Have fun!
 
A fine firearm and it will serve you well. My Blackhawk is in the never sell pile. Don't know many folks who have them and don't like them.
 
Congrats, man! I just bought my first single-action and first revolver last weekend. New Model Blackhawk in .357. I feel your excitement!

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Check the base pin and if not already installed invest the $20 or so to put in a Belt Mountain base pin and heavy base pin spring. Cheap accuracy improvement if needed. You can also do a poor man's trigger job if it's too heavy for you. More on that when you think it may be time for it.
 
Yup. Those things are great. I really dig how the lower SBH hammer feels with the standard XR3-RED type grips (same as standard Blackhawks/Vaqs, the "Dragoon" grip is too big IMHO).

That gun is one of the best bang for the buck ever made, period.
 
My birthday is coming up and I've dropped very strong hints to the wife that I really, really need a Blackhawk in .41 mag.
If she doesn't get it for me I will buy it myself! :D
 
Thanks, all, for your replies. I'm surprised that nobody asked what semi-auto was the jammomatic! Well, I'll tell ya.

A NIB 2003 manufacture Beretta 92FS. I've put just under 600 rounds through it with factory original magazines. This is the only semi-auto I've ever owned that just wouldn't finish a magazine without some sort of failure, or if it did finish the mag it wouldn't lock open on the empty mag.

Yeah, I realize that 600 rounds isn't an awful lot and I probably should have sent it back for warranty work, or at least fiddled with the loadings to see if the three or four brands of ammo I was using were the problem . . . or maybe the mags (failure to lock open tends to make me believe that the mags were the problem), but I also couldn't get the thing to group well even from a rest. I'm an "instant gratification" kinda guy so when I drop $550+ on a pistol I kind of expect it to be reasonably reliable, even if it's just a plinking/range gun. ESPECIALLY if that pistol is current issue for the armed forces!

Anyway, like my father before me, I've always had a love affair with revolvers and the NEED for a SA became too great to bear! :D
 
Well,for sure your FTF/FTE problems just vanished.!! :)
Now go buy another one and come out and play cowboy with us.Thee's a ton of cowboy shooters in the Northwest,and single actions is our THING.
Work your way up sloooowly to those barn burner loads,or you'll be selling another gun!! :)

Nice buy!!
 
SASS:

Put some barn-burners through it this morning . . . what a kick! (pardon the pun). Corbon 300 gr JSP's, WOW! It was recommended that I try these out as a hunting round for the Ruger, so I picked some up (pricey!) and put about 30 of them downrange at 50 yards. Didn't do too bad on the group either, 'bout 2" from a sitting position using my knees as the rest. Going to try to get that grouping down to less than 1" and then I'll try my hand at 100 yards.

For cowboy shootin', wouldn't I have to pick up a SAA or a Vaquero? I figured I'd get laughed off the range with the Super Blackhawk . . . not "period" enough.
 
There is a SASS "Modern class" that can accomidate that gun, if bone-stock and as "period looking" as it can get (read: lose the rubber grips, go back to wood or whatever).

This is mainly because SASS started out before the Vaqueros were available.

However, in more recent times the number of people shooting that "modern, adjustable sight SA allowed" class has dropped, in some cases to where you can show up, but have nobody to play with.

Personally, I would run whatever grips you want on that thing and update the sights so it's a really first-class "Piginator" :). Then get Vaqs or similar for SASS/CAS.

(On sights: one cheap upgrade is the OneRaggedHole apeture rear with some orange enamel or fingernail polish on the upper tip of the front. Less than $20 all told. Options get pricey from there, as gunsmithing would probably be needed to seriously alter the front.)
 
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