roval
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a few months ago one of the range regulars let me shoot his 44 mag. since then I've had a longing for one of these revolvers. I finally ordered one from the LGS, a new ruger super redhawk. I got it yesterday. wiped it down and oiled it and took it to the range today.
too bad I ordered my dies too late so they haven't arrived before the gun came. as such I only bought one box of magtach 240 gr softpoints. 44 mag is expensive I can't imagine owning this caliber unless you reload.
elevation was relatively good out of the box (wanted to adjust it a bit for 25 yrds but turns out was already maxed out with the rear sight bottomed out). the windage required a little bit of tweaking. once it was zeroed(with a miserly 8 shots- I kept thinking 75 cents each round) put away the paper target and started shooting 25 yards at my 10 inch bullseye gong from shootingtargets7... with the power of the caliber the center bullseye flips up even if you don't hit the 3 inch center. I still occasionally missed it once $2.25 in a row. haha..
I liked the heft of it. recoil wasn't so bad with the Hogue grips. I. did notice that the top of the houge grip in the SRH was softer compared to my 357 gp 100 . I don't know if that was by design or if that will stiffen up with time as well.
extraction of the magtech rounds seemed a little sticky with me having to smartly tap the extractor rod instead of pushing it out. didn't think much about it since these were factory rounds and this was a SRH.
ended up shooting only 49 bullets as the last bullet hit my target near the edge and ended up having it's chain jump the s hook causing it to hang by one chain. I do love the way this caliber rings and moves the steel.
my dies and quick change kit should arrive tomorrow. I had my primers, mbc 240 gr coated swc and brand new brass good to go for the past few months.
another good thing with the outing was that I was able to let the range regular who let me take a couple of shots with his 44 a few months ago try the gun out.(his gun was a smith and Wesson) he was pleasantly surprised as to how well the Hogue grip help with the upward recoil of the barrel.
too bad I ordered my dies too late so they haven't arrived before the gun came. as such I only bought one box of magtach 240 gr softpoints. 44 mag is expensive I can't imagine owning this caliber unless you reload.
elevation was relatively good out of the box (wanted to adjust it a bit for 25 yrds but turns out was already maxed out with the rear sight bottomed out). the windage required a little bit of tweaking. once it was zeroed(with a miserly 8 shots- I kept thinking 75 cents each round) put away the paper target and started shooting 25 yards at my 10 inch bullseye gong from shootingtargets7... with the power of the caliber the center bullseye flips up even if you don't hit the 3 inch center. I still occasionally missed it once $2.25 in a row. haha..
I liked the heft of it. recoil wasn't so bad with the Hogue grips. I. did notice that the top of the houge grip in the SRH was softer compared to my 357 gp 100 . I don't know if that was by design or if that will stiffen up with time as well.
extraction of the magtech rounds seemed a little sticky with me having to smartly tap the extractor rod instead of pushing it out. didn't think much about it since these were factory rounds and this was a SRH.
ended up shooting only 49 bullets as the last bullet hit my target near the edge and ended up having it's chain jump the s hook causing it to hang by one chain. I do love the way this caliber rings and moves the steel.
my dies and quick change kit should arrive tomorrow. I had my primers, mbc 240 gr coated swc and brand new brass good to go for the past few months.
another good thing with the outing was that I was able to let the range regular who let me take a couple of shots with his 44 a few months ago try the gun out.(his gun was a smith and Wesson) he was pleasantly surprised as to how well the Hogue grip help with the upward recoil of the barrel.
