Hmmmmmm....is this to much to pay for a Super Blackhawk?
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Looks like an old model 44 Flattop to me and well worth the $600 asking price.
Naw... Ya' got ripped off. 
You paid six bills $$$ and didn't get no modern improvements, and without an owner's manual (and a warning stamped on the barrel telling you to read it) you might accidentally shoot yourself. That ain't no "super" nothing, just a plain, ordinary .44 Magnum. Hopefully you will send it in for a transfer bar conversion so that you don't have to carry it with the hammer down on an empty chamber. Who knows how badly you might need that sixth shot if'n ya' get into a gun fight.
The barrel's too dang long, and besides I don't know that anyone still makes real leather scabbards that will fit 'um, and if they do they'll charge you an arm and a leg. Take my professional advise and return it for a refund.
You paid six bills $$$ and didn't get no modern improvements, and without an owner's manual (and a warning stamped on the barrel telling you to read it) you might accidentally shoot yourself. That ain't no "super" nothing, just a plain, ordinary .44 Magnum. Hopefully you will send it in for a transfer bar conversion so that you don't have to carry it with the hammer down on an empty chamber. Who knows how badly you might need that sixth shot if'n ya' get into a gun fight.
The barrel's too dang long, and besides I don't know that anyone still makes real leather scabbards that will fit 'um, and if they do they'll charge you an arm and a leg. Take my professional advise and return it for a refund.
So what if ya' get into a gunfight... ?????
With that long barrel and a flap holster ya' wouldn't stand a chance...
On the other hand with that flat topstrap ya' could install a rail and make it more tacticool - with a red-dot optical sight it would be real neat...
But you'd have to get another holster...
thought the old Flattop .44s were 6 1/2", not 7 1/2".
My mistake.
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Yep, it is an uncommon barrel length. But hey, it makes for a great rifle...
From Bill Hamm at Gunblast....
The 7-1/2” and 10” barrel lengths were also introduced in 1959 as part of the Type 4 production. The April 10, 1959 Distributor price sheet lists the 6-1/2” and 7-1/2” suggested retail price as $96.00 and the 10” as $106.00 Production number estimates of the 7-1/2” and 10” barrel guns vary. It is generally believed that between 1,000 to 1,500 guns with 10” barrels were made. The 7-1/2” barrel estimates seem to vary quite widely. Estimates of 750 to 2,750 believed produced have been given by different sources. For what it is worth, my personal observation of 7-1/2” versus 10” barreled .44 Flattops over the years tends to support a lower or middle of the road estimate. When thinking of the ones that I have handled, seen, and/or heard of, it supports that there were fewer, or at least no more, 7-1/2” Flattops made than the 10” guns. No matter what the estimates, both of these longer barrel .44 “Flattops” are rare! They are some the most desirable and sought after guns by collectors today.
My mistake.
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Yep, it is an uncommon barrel length. But hey, it makes for a great rifle...
From Bill Hamm at Gunblast....
The 7-1/2” and 10” barrel lengths were also introduced in 1959 as part of the Type 4 production. The April 10, 1959 Distributor price sheet lists the 6-1/2” and 7-1/2” suggested retail price as $96.00 and the 10” as $106.00 Production number estimates of the 7-1/2” and 10” barrel guns vary. It is generally believed that between 1,000 to 1,500 guns with 10” barrels were made. The 7-1/2” barrel estimates seem to vary quite widely. Estimates of 750 to 2,750 believed produced have been given by different sources. For what it is worth, my personal observation of 7-1/2” versus 10” barreled .44 Flattops over the years tends to support a lower or middle of the road estimate. When thinking of the ones that I have handled, seen, and/or heard of, it supports that there were fewer, or at least no more, 7-1/2” Flattops made than the 10” guns. No matter what the estimates, both of these longer barrel .44 “Flattops” are rare! They are some the most desirable and sought after guns by collectors today.
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Please don't lay that old thing down on rocks ever again. I may have to come down there and swoop that up if I ever seen anything that crazy again, it deserves much better.
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