KRal
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Post by KRal on Oct 5, 2016 11:27:37 GMT -5
This is my latest hunting handgun acquisition. It's topped with a 4x Leupold saddled in Weigand Mag rings. The handsome pair of shoes are by LSCG. I received all the parts and pieces a couple weeks ago. I got it assembled on the 25th of Sept and zeroed on the 26th. This is the first cylinder of rounds through it at 25 yards... I didn't have much time for load development, so I stuck with the load I had on hand (240 xtp over 24 gr of H110). I had a hunt for Mouflon planned 28 Sept- 2 Oct and figured that load would suffice for the hunt. After chasing this Mouflon for three days through the Smokey Mountains, I finally connected with a 61 yards shot. I failed to mention that this Super has had the Magnaport Stalker conversion done to it; it's quiet the looker.
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Post by kings6 on Oct 5, 2016 11:41:38 GMT -5
Great job Chief! Look at all that knife scale material that boy is wearing!
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Post by whitworth on Oct 5, 2016 11:51:55 GMT -5
Very nice, Kim! Great photos!
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Post by bradshaw on Oct 5, 2016 12:22:05 GMT -5
KRal..... fine photos, with a hunt well done. As your results demonstrate, 24 grains of 296 or H110 screams accuracy with either Sierra 240 JHC or Hornady 240 XTP. 23 grains does the same thing. Either load eliminates need for load development. Is your Super Blackhawk the original KS411N "Silver Hornpipe," with broached rifled Wilson barrel. Or, is it the later in-house hammer forged rifling? David Bradshaw
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Post by Yetiman on Oct 5, 2016 12:34:52 GMT -5
WOW ! And Great photos too!
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KRal
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Post by KRal on Oct 5, 2016 12:53:39 GMT -5
Thanks, gentlemen!
Mr. Bradshaw, I'm not near the historian with Rugers as many here. So I be scared to say without researching. The serial number is: 88-67000. Maybe you can enlighten us on this particular model.
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Post by KRal on Oct 5, 2016 12:56:06 GMT -5
Great job Chief! Look at all that knife scale material that boy is wearing! Robb, That would make for an expensive knife! LOL
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Post by zeus on Oct 5, 2016 13:06:02 GMT -5
Karl..... fine photos, with a hunt well done. As your results demonstrate, 24 grains of 296 or H110 screams accuracy with either Sierra 240 JHC or Hornady 240 XTP. 23 grains does the same thing. Either load eliminates need for load development. Is your Super Blackhawk the original KS411N " Silver Hornpipe," with broached rifled Wilson barrel. Or, is it the later in-house hammer forged rifling? David Bradshaw When was the Wilson used year wise? That's interesting information.
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cmh
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Post by cmh on Oct 5, 2016 13:31:45 GMT -5
The revolver looks great and congrats on the hunt 😊
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Post by chsparkman on Oct 5, 2016 16:13:19 GMT -5
Wow that is one beautiful SBH!
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Post by BigBore44 on Oct 5, 2016 16:46:43 GMT -5
That's a Beauty, Sir... Love the grips and, the "racing stripes" and,,, Aw'hell I like Everything about it! plus it's in my favorite caliber to boot! Nice ram too... BigBore44 P.S. Nice group on that target, some Fine shootin all around Ray
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Post by bradshaw on Oct 5, 2016 17:42:21 GMT -5
zeus.... better leave it to contender or other aficionado to sort out the archeology. Ruger single actions were produced on a short cut de sac off the Old Post Road in Southport, Connecticut from the git-go until the machinery was trucked to Newport, New Hampshire, where production resumed in 1992. There may have been a few single actions run in 1991, but the line was up in 1992. Southport Super Blackhawks barrels were made by the George Wilson company in Connecticut, which supplied the vast majority of Ruger barrels. Wilson manufacturing included BUTTON and BROACH rifling. As an example, .357 barrels were buttoned, with 8-grooves. .44 barrels were broached, with 6-grooves. Accuracy of either depends entirely on the quality of the hole drilled, and reamed, along with the quality of the lands swaged by a carbide button, or cut with a tree-like set of teeth, each "limb" progressively biting deeper.
A proper Super Blackhawk out of Southport would group 5-inches @ 200 meters (220 yards). This was done, repeatedly, with iron sights. Ruger introduced the SBH with tapered 10-1/2-inch barrel for IHMSA silhouette in 1979. Ruger called it the S410N, but my late friend Ed Verge pronounced it the "Hornpipe." The first stainless Supers followed on the heals of the Blackhawk .357 Maximum in 1983. With untapered 10-1/2-inch barrel, the long Maximum ejector, and a screw-attached target front sight.
In Newport, Ruger tore up the indoor range to make space for installing hammer forging machines. Concrete was removed to create separate pads----separated from the shop floor by a moat of sand. Construction continued while the Redhawk DA revolver and Red Label over/under struggled to reach production. As a footnote, the Redhawk barrel is, like the Smith & Wesson, made from a drop forging, which is than machined, drilled, reamed, and broached. David Bradshaw
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Post by oregon45 on Oct 5, 2016 18:54:14 GMT -5
What type of sheep horn are those grips?
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KRal
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Post by KRal on Oct 5, 2016 19:41:02 GMT -5
What type of sheep horn are those grips? Merino
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Post by markhampton on Oct 5, 2016 19:47:19 GMT -5
That is a beautiful revolver! Great photos and a dandy ram -- well done!
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