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Add a nice single action, and you would have a fine core collection.I agree,Ruger shouldn't take a back seat to no name brand revolver or semi auto.
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Add a nice single action, and you would have a fine core collection.I agree,Ruger shouldn't take a back seat to no name brand revolver or semi auto.
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I was wondering if you were a good enough shooter to really evaluate the guns...maybe shot from a rest to help eliminate you as the variable...and what comparative success you might have had with a different brand. I can relate to what you are saying, but cannot state negative things without being abused by those who would discredit the experience.I'll have to be the voice of dissent... I've owned a good number of Ruger single-action revolvers and I could never get one to shoot worth a darn. That includes a single-six, about 6 .45 Colt variations, and a beautiful .41 Bisley that I had very, very high hopes for. Even earlier this year, I gave it... One More Try with a .44 Flattop... and, again, was disappointed.
Pic of the Bisley .41 (top) and my old .45 Vaquero. The .41 is gone, sadly, but the Vaquero remains as my camp and workhorse pistol... The jury is still out on the .44.
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PM me. I have a set I am not using, but I have to check which frame generation they fit.chicharrones
Thanks for the info! Will check out the various auction sites to see if I can find a pair like it.
But the gun has adjustable sights. Group size would be more telling, I think.I was wondering if you were a good enough shooter to really evaluate the guns...
Wow... really? You don't think I went through the motions with each pistol? Trying different bullets and weights?
What I have learned recently is the problem Ruger has with their cylinder throats, I had sold the .41 Bisley before I heard about having the cylinder reamed. I did have the throats reamed on the .44 Flattop, the machinist said they were all over the map, but it still had no effect on POI (high and left.)
Always wanted a blued redhawk.Sold this one, kept the SS .41 Mag.
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I don't believe even the hottest .357 load ever devised has a chance of hurting that hog leg!View attachment 769217 My "grail gun"- a 6 shot .357 Redhawk from the first two years of production. Check out those cylinder walls!
If Ruger hangs a 7" barrel on the new 8 shot model, though, I'll have to grab one.....
View attachment 769217 My "grail gun"- a 6 shot .357 Redhawk from the first two years of production. Check out those cylinder walls!
If Ruger hangs a 7" barrel on the new 8 shot model, though, I'll have to grab one.....
Obviously, the new .357 Redhawk benefits from the latest advances in metallurgy, as its walls are quite thin by comparison. Notice how the barrel extension is much thinner too- though the frame is thicker.Have any idea what that thing weighs? That barrel isn't any slurpy-straw either!
I gotta think that Ruger built the .357 Redhawk for one of these reasons:
1. They lost a bet with S&W or Colt.
2. The DoD ordered some to see if they could "speed up" a .357 round for anti-aircraft use and someone mistook that to mean "speed into production" and they started boxing 'em up.
3. The stainless scrap market temporarily tanked so Ruger figured that if they couldn't make money on the shavings, then they might as well send it in a box and charge the customers!
Either way, it's a segment of Ruger's history and as some have said, you won't wear it out and likely won't ever kaboom it, even if you tried. NOT that we're condoning that sort of thing!
But the gun has adjustable sights. Group size would be more telling, I think.
I was responding re your 41 Bisley, with adjustable sights and shooting "high and left". You could effect the windage quite a lot, while the elevation is more a matter of where to hold, if sights are bottomed out for elevation..Not all of them had adjustable sights, and in the case of the .44, I can't adjust the sights far enough to get to POI, as was the same with my Single-six.
View attachment 769252 My Ruger single actions and Old Armies. My long barrel 45 has both Colt and ACP cylinders too.
I actually saw your vid on the 10mm today, excellent vid, and nice pics!Yeah let's not forget about Ruger, though that would be hard today as they seem to be the most innovative of the Big Three Colt, S&W, Ruger.
Their new products are awesome
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And the old is very evocative -- *Six Series*
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