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dickydalton
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That's a New Model. Mine is a 3 screw.
Resisted for decades...
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Dudemeister
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Welcome to the .41 club 
halfmoonclip
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That's where I live. Have a couple .44 629s, and they have scratched the itch for forty caliber magnums.
Realize there are true believers in the .41, along with those who love the .40S&W.
We don't all go for the same girl.
Moon
Smokin Gator
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There are some 44 Special built on a slightly smaller frame then the 44 mags. I have one of the Ruger flat top 44 Specials. Also a couple of 44 mag Vaqueros. Some shooters like the smaller frame if they aren't going to be shooting magnum level loads.
35 Whelen
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I'm fairly new to the .41 Magnum and have been a dyed-in-the-wool .44 Special fan for well over a decade.
The .41 Magnum to me is a very unique cartridge in that almost any reasonable load will be accurate and it and the revolvers in which it is chambered have a nice balance making shooting it a long range fairly easy. I killed a pretty large boar with one of my .41's last Saturday and it performed perfectly. That said, the .41 is loaded to the same chamber pressure as the .357 Magnum and .44 Magnum and therefore is a little more powerful than the former and a little less powerful than the latter. No pixie dust or voodoo involved.
As to the .44 Special, it is hands-down my favorite revolver cartridge. While you don't understand the .44 Special, I don't understand shooters buying heavy, large frame .44 Magnum's and loading them down. Why not just buy a small, light and handy .44 Special such as a Ruger Flat Top Blackhawk and load it up? For nearly a century handloaders have been safely loading their .44 Special's with 250 gr. lead bullets in the 1200 fps range which is about the same ballistics as .44 Magnum rounds as offered by Federal, Remington, Winchester and others. I've killed quite a bit of game with the .44 Special and 45 Colt and simply don't find high velocities necessary.
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lightman
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Nice looking Ruger!
BLACKHAWKNJ
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Bought my 4" S&W M-57 in 1980, it was 10 years before I fired a factory round. Found the .41 Magnum easy to reload, seems to me reloading supplies more readily available 30-40 years ago. Plenty accurate.
Why the 41 ?-Fills that elusive "caliber gap" that we shooters have long been mesmerized by.
Why the 41 ?-Fills that elusive "caliber gap" that we shooters have long been mesmerized by.
J-Bar
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I think I have overpaid for every firearm I own, except maybe one.
You made a good decision. Enjoy shooting your new gun. Life is too short to be concerned with someone else's definition of a bargain.
You made a good decision. Enjoy shooting your new gun. Life is too short to be concerned with someone else's definition of a bargain.
somerled
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A three-screw .41 Magnum, no honking big warning label on the barrel, and the 4 5/8" barrel: that's American Handgunner Porn there. John Taffin will be calling. ;-)
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dickydalton
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Look at it now, with Ken Driskill Elk on it!
I am a big .41 fan here and like the if you can find one the super blackhawk in .41 but now I went to a smith model 57 and keeping that old thing. Have had it for over 30 years and no way will go back to a ruger due to that smith and wesson trigger pull.
357smallbore
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I had two just like that. Bought the 1st one in 1986, kept it a year and sold it needing cash 1yr later. Then bought the 2nd in 1988 and had it 10 months and sold it for a holy carb and a fancy chrome air filter cover and filter.
I liked them both. Ammo was not cheap. Hell I was a 23 yr old kid and made some poor choices back then.But now being 60, I dialed it in. I never did go back to the 41. I went 44 mag and became a reloader for my weapons. So much savings.
I liked them both. Ammo was not cheap. Hell I was a 23 yr old kid and made some poor choices back then.But now being 60, I dialed it in. I never did go back to the 41. I went 44 mag and became a reloader for my weapons. So much savings.
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dickydalton
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I had my first 29 no dash in 1974 and many more after, still have most of them. I ignored the 41 for 50 years waiting for a Model 57 at the right price and it never happened. Now I am buying silly I guess.
Boom Vang
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Welcome to the 41 Associates!
I never understood the premium paid for the 3-screw Blackhawk. It's not like they were made and marketed as some high-end firearm, nor are they more practical, accurate, durable or safer than the New Model Blackhawk.
Actually, I never understood the premium for discontinued Ruger anything. They are good solid guns, but I remember buying them when I was younger because I couldn't afford a Colt or Smith & Wesson.
I never understood the premium paid for the 3-screw Blackhawk. It's not like they were made and marketed as some high-end firearm, nor are they more practical, accurate, durable or safer than the New Model Blackhawk.
Actually, I never understood the premium for discontinued Ruger anything. They are good solid guns, but I remember buying them when I was younger because I couldn't afford a Colt or Smith & Wesson.
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Bazoo
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Very nice! Congratulations on both the gun and the grips.
