I love the 44mag, I have owned 3 different types of Desert Eagles in 44mag but never a revolver, in fact...I have never owned a revolver period and feel I should get one for the range.
My only criteria is it is DA, can handle full house 44s (I loaded 240gr XTPs over 24.2gr H110 for my Deagle) and has a long barrel
I found a Ruger Super Redhawk 9.5" for just under 820 shipped + NICS...any reason I shouldnt grab that one?
S&W 629 would be my ONLY choice. It's the gold standard for a 44 mag revolver, IMHO. Price is the same.
I'm done with Rugers. MY last 3 Rugers have been a major disappointment. SR-762 was the least accurate AR-10 I've ever seen. LCP was a jamming POS. Vaquero 45 colt wouldn't hit a 8 inch plate at 20 yards, 2 out of 6 shots.
I've used a M29 w/ 8 3/4" barrel to "flip" woodchucks out to 75 yds shooting SA.
When S+W jumped on the Clintoon gun grabber bandwagon in the 1990s, never again a S+W product. They showed their yellow snake underbelly again, when they brought out T/C arms and renigged on the transferable lifetime warranty on all those hawkins and renegades that built the company along with the Contender and Encore. When TC was still in NH you could call them up, talk with a human straight up
IMHO if you want a real dandy long range pistol, but one shot at a time, find a pre-S+W TC Encore. They made barrels from .22 up to .416 rigby (ouch!)
That Colt is a mighty handsome gun. Had sorta slipped my mind about Colt making .44 mags. I lugged around a Trooper Mark something or other in .357 mag. Was a highly accurate gun..in fact the first time I shot..after quite a few years of using the SW 28..the score went way up. Had excellent crisp sights and pretty close to. a bull barrel on it. The trigger was way too hard to pull and they claimed there wasnt much way to lighten it up since it used some kind leaf springs instead of coil springs..so a person could not go in there and strart cutting on the rebound spring which was highly simple to do on a SW. We could tune then Model 28s down to the sneeze em off stage..lol. I might get the colt if it has a good trigger. I still cant stand the cylinder release. Smith and Ruger are better on that .
I guess what I am looking for is something with a comfortable grip, can handle full house loads and preferably a 6" or longer barrel - the barrel length is personal preference I thinks long autos are ugly for the most part
I like the rounded grip of the 629 which is why I like the Super Redhawk those other cowboy grip styles look painful
I have a super redhawk with a 6" barrel and I love it. its not really the prettiest gun out there but it can shoot any 44 mag round including the buffalo bore stuff that they warm is not for some pistols. It weights enough to help deal with recoil but not so much that you dislike caring it. You will be happy with your investment.
You're right. The way that the length of the barrel is thinner than the main body is not as 'Pretty' as the Ruger GP100 357 Mag. However there have been times where I thought the picture was ugly until I held the gun in my hand, never held a Super Redhawk.
Hey Uncle Slippy..Wiki says them Colts in question now have a good trigger..so that must be right. They musta wised up and started building em right or at least not on the pattern of the Trooper model. Maybe has the innards of a Python.hmm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colt_Anaconda
If I was going to buy a 44 Mag Revolver....my first choice would be a Ruger Super Red Hawk, Ruger Redhawk or S&W in that order. Especially if the loads are gonna be on the stout side. I have owned all three! The Smith is gone. a Fine weapon but cant handle the steady diet of full throttle loads as well as the Rugers can. The Redhawk will take more punishment than you can tolerate, the Super Redhawk will out live you! The Super Redhawks are about 999.99 here at most places, so 850.00 doesnt sound bad at all.
Thanks Slip and Chipper, I figured it was some BS I know how usual porting works and it sucks at night
I figure if I could tame a 44mag with a 5" that a 9.5" Revolver cant be that bad, I shot an Alaskan 2.5" in 454 and didnt die lol so I should be good to go
SOCOM42 is right. The velocity loss is minimal though in most cases and is more effective the higher the pressure of the loads being fired. It has nothing to do with barrel longevity. If I was going to do anything along this line....I would do something like Smith & Wesson has done with the 629 from the Performance Center or the X-Frame series handguns.
I do own a S&W 29-2
I LOVE the gun and the caliber, but I think that this should not be a necessary gun in a "prepper collection"
The caliber is surely powerful, but it is hard to be controlled (and therefore to double the shot), the gun is heavy and the cartridge needs a lot of lead and powder to be reloaded.
There are tons of better choiches if the prepping is the final purpose.
It may have a crappy trigger, and that is all that I can think of. Those things are tough guns,and you can load them HOT!
Just keep an eye on the forcing cone if you do load +P+ . (I have taken the liberty of using the undefined term +P+ in a Magnum. I leave it to your good sense to define that.) It can be eroded, and that will destroy the accuracy, but, that takes a long time to happen.
(I had a SA Super Blackhawk, and it was a tough gun, Ruger is famous for that toughness.)
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