Blackhawk, Super Blackhawk

[Sisco]

What's the difference?
All I can tell from Rugers website is the Super has a different hammer shape and is only available in 44 mag.

Blackhawk

Super Blackhawk

 

[BluesBear]

Yes the hammer is different.

In the 5½" version bithe the BH & SBH are close to the same.

However in all other lengths the Super Blackhawk has a steel gripframe with a squareback trigger guard. They also have unfluted cylinders.

 

[Sisco]

Went back to the website and pulled up a pic of a longer barreled one, I see the difference in the trigger guard. Nothing in the description about the steel frame but now that you said it I remember hearing that before.
Not that it matters a whole lot, I'm wanting a .41 mag so I need to go the Blackhawk route anyway.
Thanks for the info!

 

[Jim March]

In the 5.5" barrel SBH pictured above, the grip frame is the same size as the Blackhawk above BUT it's blued steel instead of black-anodized aluminum.

SBHs never ship with aluminum grip frames. Also, I seem to recall the ejector rod housing is blue steel vs. aluminum but I'm not certain.

All SBHs with barrels longer than 5.5" have the larger grip size (in steel, at least on New Models...a few Old Model SBHs had brass grip frames). The larger grip size generally has the "Dragoon" or "Squareback" trigger guard, 'cept for the Hunter's which is round (yet otherwise the same large size as the SBH Dragoon).

SBHs with the smaller steel grip frame also come in 4.68" barrels.

 

[BluesBear]

Yes Jim, I intended to insert the word larger before square-backed.
I had forgotten that the SBH also has steel ejector rod housings.
I have never understood why the 4 5/8" has the round trigger guard but still has the unfluted cylinder.