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Post by MackaySagebrush on Jan 21, 2014 22:13:05 GMT -5
Currently I only have one redhawk, a 4" .44 . It was a gift from the bride. I am normally a Model 29 fan, but the Redhawk is a flat out stellar .44. It handles anything I stuff on it and is easy to carry in the Milt Sparks rig I had built for it.
Truly an excellent field piece and one of the small handful that will not get sold off when I get closer to retirement and phase down the collection.
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Post by Ranger499 on Jan 24, 2014 0:12:24 GMT -5
I have the "need" for a 4" 45 Colt. Got the chance to fondle a buddies and I was smitten. Shoot a 25-5 loose many, many years ago with warm handloads. Doubt I could do that to the Redhawk.
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Post by rkcohen on Jul 17, 2014 13:03:00 GMT -5
bought my first redhawk in very early 1980 and was told it was the first one in sw fla by none other than joe benner who was the ruger guy at that time in the tampa area (for a kid in his early 20's it was a big deal - to me at least) - still have it - have asked my wife to bury me with it.....
handloader published an article ref redhawk +p loads for the 44mag (Apr10 #265 - 310 grain cast @ 1495 fps) was quite interesting. imagine that - 300 plus grain slugs approaching 1500 fps!
having "shot me some of those" - the 300 and up cast loads - i was very impressed with the penetration i got on a decent sized north carolina hog about a year ago - straight through....
it was a "tongue out, x's in both eyes, smoked pulled pork, dead on the spot, bad for the pig day" sort of shot you only read about in the gun rags...
wasn't expecting it and my hunting buddy's response was just to turn and look at me with his jaw swinging freely!
mine swung a little bit too, truth be told...
we now respectfully call that 5.5" redhawk "barby-q!"
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Post by Markbo on Jul 17, 2014 13:21:19 GMT -5
I don't know much about them. I only have 3. .45, .44 & .41. Seeing as I see no practical use for one in anything smaller I don't need anymore and I will never wear these out so if they make more of them... meeh.
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Post by Ken O'Neill on Jul 18, 2014 6:40:33 GMT -5
Since this thread rose to the top again, I can report that David Bradshaw and Whitworth were right, and my understanding from the post of someone else on another forum was wrong. I spoke with Ken Jorgenson of Ruger last month when we were together at Raton, and Ruger is now producing their "American" series of rifles in North Carolina, and not the Redhawks.
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Post by crazycarl on Jul 21, 2014 12:08:18 GMT -5
Kicking myself for passing on a 5 1/2" stainless .41, a year or so ago. 'Course, I also found a pre-Remlin 1895GS the same day & the Guide Gun was a bit higher on the want-list at the time...
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Post by mrbfr on Jul 21, 2014 16:55:14 GMT -5
I was in a gun shop a few counties over several years ago and was looking for something else, I think a 1911. They didn't have it but I looked on the wall and they had a 4" Redhawk .45 Colt, it was just sitting there so I snagged it up. But like many of the other dumb things I've done, I ended up selling it and have regretted it ever since.
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Post by mbaneacp on Jul 22, 2014 21:18:01 GMT -5
Years back I did a GUNSITE class with a 4-inch Redhawk .44 Magnum running hot .44 Specials. It was great fun and the Redhawk is a super defensive revolver. The out-of-the-box trigger wasn't bad...
Michael B
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Post by snappy on Aug 3, 2014 0:20:57 GMT -5
I hope we see a 41 mag Redhawk with 4" or shorter barrel in the future, (ala the new Lipsey's roundbutt 44 that is coming soon). My 5.5" stainless 41, the only Redhawk I have shot, is a beautiful tool and is great fun, but would be a bit much to carry on a regular/daily basis. Don't know if this one has had work done to it, but the trigger could not be better. So smooth! A 45 Colt 4" would certainly work, but there is just something about a 41! A roundbutt w/ 3" barrel would be the ultimate.
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Post by bradshaw on Aug 4, 2014 14:58:00 GMT -5
Michael B.... attended, some years ago----read "many years ago"----a "combat" match in Texas with my friend Bill Mading. Course of fire included: pretend you're in a sleeping bag and are attacked by three exceedingly evil cardboard effigies intent on harm. Three rounds of Federal .44 Mag 180 JHP at 1610 fps from my 5-1/2" Redhawk settled accounts, shards of caliche backstop flying hither and yon. A competitor----long-stick magazine sprouting from his fat-handle .38 Super----says, "You have to shoot each target twice!"
"Oh? Do you really think so?" David Bradshaw
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Post by Markbo on Aug 5, 2014 14:36:44 GMT -5
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Post by dobegrant on Aug 23, 2014 20:03:38 GMT -5
Just picked up one of the 4.2" .44 Redhawk, what a nice gun, like the warning relocated underneath barrel shroud, great shooter, trigger is manageable, my SRH in .480 had a trigger job done is so slick, after a while I maybe able to give up the Redhawk to the gun smith.
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Post by bigmuddy on Sept 2, 2014 15:25:05 GMT -5
Michael B.... attended, some years ago----read "many years ago"----a "combat" match in Texas with my friend Bill Mading. Course of fire included: pretend you're in a sleeping bag and are attacked by three exceedingly evil cardboard effigies intent on harm. Three rounds of Federal .44 Mag 180 JHP at 1610 fps from my 5-1/2" Redhawk settled accounts, shards of caliche backstop flying hither and yon. A competitor----long-stick magazine sprouting from his fat-handle .38 Super----says, "You have to shoot each target twice!" "Oh? Do you really think so?" David Bradshaw Would have loved to see that one David. That is hilarious!!! Dan
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Post by MackaySagebrush on Nov 14, 2014 21:33:45 GMT -5
I'd love to run my 4" Redhawk in the thunder ranch revolver class. If they'd only allow cast bullets this one time.... I can't imagine the cost of 1000 rounds of frangible, lead free .44 Magnum ammo. :0
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Post by MackaySagebrush on Nov 16, 2014 0:07:47 GMT -5
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