Author Topic: Favorite .44 Magnum Revolver? (Read 3166 times)

DennisE · « **on:** December 27, 2003, 12:10:21 PM »

What is your favorite .44 Magnum revolver for range and field shooting/hunting? I've had. or have. a S&W 629 PP, Ruger Super Blackhawk, Ruger Bisley 7.5", and Acusport Ruger SS 5.5" Bisley in .44 Magnum. The last one is the new one and, as you might guess, my current favorite. Dennis

Lloyd Smale · « **Reply #1 on:** December 27, 2003, 01:31:21 PM »

my 5 1/2 accusport bisley is the most accurate out of the box handgun ive ever owned so ill surely agree with you.

J.Solo · « **Reply #2 on:** December 27, 2003, 03:33:05 PM »

1st. Blue, 5 3/4" New Model Super Black Hawk cut down from a 10 1/2" and Magnaproted.

Also have had one of the 5 1/2" Accusport Bisleys for the past 7 months but have not warmed up to it to date. Can't get used to the grip and hammer/trigger design.

Bisley is no more accurate than the modified gun.

Had a S&W Model 29 a few years ago but did not feel it was as strong as the Rugers so I got rid of it.

J.Solo

ranger730 · « **Reply #3 on:** December 27, 2003, 06:49:47 PM »

I have had a super blackhawk sold it like a dummy but now have 5.5 super blackhawk ss and 7.5 super blackhawk hunter only shot'em out to 25yds at the range and was more than pleased so I would have to to say just about anything with strum, ruger on it would be a favorite

rocco · « **Reply #4 on:** December 28, 2003, 01:27:45 AM »

Would have to pick two can't choose between sorry .
S&W 629 4 inch
Ruger SBH SS 4 5/8

44 Man · « **Reply #5 on:** December 28, 2003, 02:35:10 PM »

Easy one. I have an old pre-warning Mag-na-port 5" SBH from before they started making the Predator. Ken Kelly put a blue on this gun that you could comb your hair in (if I had any!). I keep switching the grip frame. It currently wears a satin nickeled aluminum one, which I really like as it is lighter for packing. I tried a brass grip frame that went great with the gold plated hammer/trigger and cylinder pin, but that added a LOT of weight. I keep thinking about sending it back to him to round butt the aluminum frame, thin the grips, and cut it again to 4". Ken did that for a .45 RBH a few years back and that was a great packing gun. 44 Man

redhawk44p · « **Reply #6 on:** December 28, 2003, 03:06:30 PM »

Heres my choice

Bullseye · « **Reply #7 on:** December 28, 2003, 04:05:41 PM »

Ruger Super Redhawk, oops forgot this is the Single Action Forum. Never had a single action I liked in a big caliber.

DennisE · « **Reply #8 on:** December 29, 2003, 07:50:23 AM »

Bullseye: Thanks for you're response. I'm really interested in folks' favorite .44 Magnum revolver whether it happens to be SA or DA. Dennis

Tc300mag1 · « **Reply #9 on:** January 01, 2004, 01:39:37 PM »

Ruger SRH 9 1/2 barrel thinking of getting it cut back little to long

Had a S&W model 29 didnt like it sold it for the ruger

Graycg · « **Reply #10 on:** January 01, 2004, 02:09:00 PM »

for single actions: Stainless 7.5 inch adjustable sighted Interarms Virginia Dragoon!!!

If double action, 6.5 inch smith & wesson 629 classic, there ain't no finer!!

regards,
Graycg

Prof. Fuller Bullspit · « **Reply #11 on:** January 01, 2004, 06:46:18 PM »

Its a tie between the Ruger Redhawk with a 5.5 barrel and the Ruger Super Blackhawk with the 7.5 barrel.

I've had the Redhawk longer but the SBH is sure growing on me!

AnthonyKelly · « **Reply #12 on:** January 04, 2004, 01:00:23 AM »

Hey , redhawk44p nice !

redhawk44p · « **Reply #13 on:** January 04, 2004, 05:14:19 AM »

Thanks Antony. I really like that gun. Just put in a Belt Mountain pin in it and I am eyeballing the Bowen rear sight. It is great the way it is but I cannot help tweaking.

Super Rat · « **Reply #14 on:** January 07, 2004, 10:06:18 AM »

I have a 5" Super BlackHawk and a 7.5" Super Blackhawk.

I like to carry the 7.5 when trekking the back country, grouse hunting with a smoothbore, picking berries, etc., but not actually back-packing. For back-packing I switch to the 5" gun.

The 7.5" really shoots out to 100 yards nice, and I took a deer with it once at about 125-130 yards. The deer dropped like the earth had been pulled out from underneath it. It shoots a 250 grain bullet at a true 1534fps. I've shot a zillion grouse with it too, with shot loads.

The main load for the 5" is a hard cast 300 grain bullet at 1300fps, but it also likes the Speer 240 grain FMJ. Shoots them both to same POA. I've taken a few grouse with the 5" too.

Just recently I got the 5" gun Parkerized. I got the gun originally as a box of rusted parts, and much of the gun was too pitted to take all the way down in order to put a decent blue on it. The parkerizing looks great, really dark grey, with contrasting black ejector rod housing, loading gate, and grip frame. It's quite "unique".

KN · « **Reply #15 on:** January 07, 2004, 12:32:41 PM »

I have three Rugers but my favorite is a 6" Anaconda. Smoothest factory trigger I've ver seen. KN

Larry Gibson · « **Reply #16 on:** January 07, 2004, 12:59:06 PM »

Quote from: KN

I have three Rugers but my favorite is a 6" Anaconda. Smoothest factory trigger I've ver seen. KN

Got to agree, only my Anaconda is a 4".

Larry Gibson

cbagman · « **Reply #17 on:** January 07, 2004, 01:40:41 PM »

I have a series of Ruger Single Actions fitted with orange front sight inserts, white outline rear sight, and trigger jobs in .22,.45 Colt, .44 Mag on Blackhawk frame. I like the 5.5 in .44 best.. I did have a 6.5 in .357 one but swapped it.. I have shot deer with the 7.5 in .45 Colt.. Howsomever as the years fly past, I have trended toward hunting with a 6.5 inch S&W DX Classic with a Millet Reddot on it for the accuracy factor.. I also like my 4 inch S&W .357 Mountain Gun..Very accurate and a good weight to carry.. I am rambling now, but it depends on the task as to what my favorite one is, for each has its' own best use...Cbagman :wink:

Jim n Iowa · « **Reply #18 on:** January 16, 2004, 01:51:29 PM »

Ok I own several Ruger products, visited their web site. So what is a "Acusport Ruger"
Jim

ironfoot · « **Reply #19 on:** January 16, 2004, 05:43:23 PM »

Favorite? Its a little like asking which of my children I like best. Each delight (and disappoint at times) in a different way. I have a S&W 629 Classic 6" (61/2"?) a Ruger 71/2" Vaquero, and a S&W 629 Mountain Gun. I had the Ruger all ready for deer hunting a few years back. I had handloaded some cartridges. I had practiced and was happy with the accuracy. I was in a tree stand early morning. A buck came by. I tried to line up the sights. They were fuzzy. I am 49 and pretty farsighted now. I need reading glasses. I used to think a scope on a handgun was stupid. Now it makes a lot of sense. I put a scope on the S&W classic. I have brought it along deer hunting. I havn't shot a deer with it yet though. I had a fawn come in a couple years ago and it would have been an easy shot with the S&W, but the deer was so small and unwary, I couldn't bring myself to shoot it. If I had to keep just one, I suppose it would be the Mountain Gun. It is the worst to shoot because it is so light. It is the best to carry because it is so light. I currently have the Ruger for sale. Not because I don't like it, but to get my money back so I can get something else. I have two other Ruger Vaqueros in .357 magnum for cowboy action shoots. I have a Ruger Blackhawk in .45 Colt and with a second cylinder in .45 ACP. It is 51/2" and real accurate. I would like a .45 Colt Ruger Vaquero. Why? Mainly because I havn't had one yet.

DennisE · « **Reply #20 on:** January 17, 2004, 02:43:45 AM »

Jim in Iowa: Acusport (like Lew Horton, Camfour, Davidsons and others) is a large outfit that wholesales guns to retail shops and from time to time arranges with gun manufactures for special limited runs of uncataloged guns. over the last year or so Acusport has been order special editions (500 to 1000 guns) of 5" adjustable sight SS Ruger Bisleys; first in .44 Magnum, then .45 Colt and currently .41 Magnum. There are rumors that they're going to continue the series with .357 Magnum and .22 LR. They're fantastic shooters. Acusports is HQ in Ohio. Dennis

Lawdog · « **Reply #21 on:** January 17, 2004, 11:31:27 AM »

Older model Ruger 7 1/2" Super Blackhawk that the wife gave me for our fifth anniversary. Out of my three(Ruger Super Blackhawk, Colt Anaconda and S&W M29) .44 mags. it's the one I always grab heading out the door hunting. Lawdog

Jim n Iowa · « **Reply #22 on:** January 18, 2004, 01:23:43 PM »

DennisE
Thanks for the reply, I will check it out(wife over looking said will talk about it). They learn to count guns so quickly. What part of Utah do live? I spent an early childhood in Ogden, I've always missed it.
Jim

DennisE · « **Reply #23 on:** January 18, 2004, 03:54:42 PM »

Jim n Iowa: I live in a community on the south side of SLC. Strangely we mirror each other in that I spent my youth in Iowa (Burlington). Dennis

retiredsquid · « **Reply #24 on:** February 16, 2004, 11:59:35 AM »

I just did the full Bisley conversion on my newest stainless 10.5" Super Blackhawk and it sure is sweet. :grin: Had the stainless grip frame transfered over to my blue Mag-na-Ported 7.5" Liberty Super Blackhawk and it looks mighty sweet, too.

I think the 10.5" has edged out the Mag-na-Ported Gary Reeder Classic Super Blackhawk Hunter for the time being, though -- sorry Gary. (May have to send the Hunter back to Gary to do a Bisley conversion on it.) Can't leave out the Stainless Bisley Vaquero or the 7.5" blue Vaquero with brass gripframe. Oops! Only one of them? :shock: :? :wink: :-D
Rich

44 Man · « **Reply #25 on:** February 17, 2004, 07:42:33 AM »

What I think would soon become my favorite, they haven't built yet! A Ruger Vaquero 3 3/4"bbl round butt (in 44 Mag of course). Thin the grips, Mag-na-port the barrel. Then file the sights to hit dead on with 300 gr cast bullets at 900 fps (or 270s at 1000). That would be one fine packing 44! 44 Man

inluvwithsara · « **Reply #26 on:** February 18, 2004, 07:46:20 AM »

my 7.5 SRH...with the beaded sights...I love it...my wife loves it, and my nephew wants it as his own...tough as nails...just got a winchester 94 trapper in 44 to keep it company, and am hoping to get a sbh soon...

Tom W. · « **Reply #27 on:** February 27, 2004, 03:03:56 PM »

My 5 1/2 inch S/S SBH, with the fluted cylinder and rounded trigger guard.

rugerman · « **Reply #28 on:** March 16, 2004, 04:10:35 PM »

:grin: Ruger superblackhawk with 7.5 inch barrell gets my vote! I've had this one since 1975 and have killed a bunch of deer with it and hope to kill many more.

doc-and · « **Reply #29 on:** March 16, 2004, 05:19:16 PM »

Let's see :? , and limiting to 44mag cuts down the field a lot :wink: .

4 5/8inch MagNaPort Super Blackhawk :-D :grin: :-D
10inch Super Blackhawk :grin:
4inch S&W Model 29

6inch S&W Model 629 :-)

It's a good thing you limited to revolvers :wink:

doc-and

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