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Post by reflex264 on Dec 7, 2023 16:30:32 GMT -5
I love that gun. Perfect.
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Post by theshootist1894 on Dec 12, 2023 17:00:08 GMT -5
Squawberry, put me in your will for that RH :-)
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Post by wyomingnimrod on May 30, 2024 19:43:51 GMT -5
Looking forward to joining this club in the not too distant future. Good looking guns, gentlemen. And those snakewood grips, good lord. Probably not fun to shoot but damn purdy
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Post by nfanewbie on Jun 4, 2024 23:22:23 GMT -5
Looking forward to joining this club in the not too distant future. Good looking guns, gentlemen. And those snakewood grips, good lord. Probably not fun to shoot but damn purdy I don’t hot rod it and just use “mild” .50 special rounds. It is a sweetheart. But I am a little off kilter. I mean I don’t think my .375 H&H mag moa maximum kicks that bad but no one else ever wants to shoot it. |
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Post by wyomingnimrod on Jun 4, 2024 23:41:50 GMT -5
Looking forward to joining this club in the not too distant future. Good looking guns, gentlemen. And those snakewood grips, good lord. Probably not fun to shoot but damn purdy I don’t hot rod it and just use “mild” .50 special rounds. It is a sweetheart. But I am a little off kilter. I mean I don’t think my .375 H&H mag moa maximum kicks that bad but no one else ever wants to shoot it. Off-kilter is the only way to be. Cheers, Nfa. Snakewood is the mist striking wood for grips, imho, and yours are exceptional and well-aged |
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Post by gunsbam45 on Jun 5, 2024 21:39:39 GMT -5
My first .500 Redhawk from Bowen had smooth stag from Roy. Those grips were just a hair thin for me, but with the heavy 4 3/4 L frame barrel, it was great with 440 grainers over 16 of HS6. 22 of 2400 was as far as I cared to go with it with that same bullet. Once I started getting much over 1100 FPS, it got a little wild to hang onto, but it was great from 950-1100. The other one was Tom's ported 5" SP101 barrel gun. I don't like ported guns, BUT, the wheels started turning so I bought it and had Roy put some musk ox on it, and he did the best job of fitting my hand imaginable. He really got it right. I ran 27 of H110 with a 525 grain bullet, can't remember the make of the bullet now, but those grips, and Hamilton's porting with expansion chamber made it work well recoil wise. Only problem was Hamilton did not design the expansion chamber for bullets that long. It's the only gun I've ever had a load keyhole out of, and turns out the reason is that when the bullet entered the expansion chamber, the barrel was still rising, and most of the time, the muzzle was just catching the back end of the bullet on the way out. Anyway I sold it to a customer who wanted it, and it tack drives 440 and 460 LFNGC jus hot as you want. I hit the buffalo a few times out at 990 yds or whatever the range was out at the Cody shoot with some of John's hot 460 LFNGC loads with it. I told you all that to say, I think you'd likely find you'd like a set of standard magna grips from Rob or Zane made right. I sold my Ella gun only cus it has the best looking set of smooth Sambar stag on it I've ever seen serialed to the gun by Roy, and it would not have been right to remove them. It resides with a friend in Tejas now, but if I had it to do over again, I'd of had Roy or Rob fit a thin liner set under them to match up with the stag, and been perfectly happy. NEVER crossed my mind back then, but it does often now... There were days I shot over 100 rounds of that 440 over 16 of HS6 no issues, even with the grips a bit too thin for me. But, our hands are all different. I really like the .500 Redhawks up to about 1100 with custom Magnas, but that's about the velocity limit on them for me.
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Post by wyomingnimrod on Jun 6, 2024 7:46:38 GMT -5
Great to know that in your experience, Gunsbam, magna grips and low to medium loadings in a .500L Redhawk can be do-able, especially when well-fitted.
I have a .44Mag Redhawk Kodiak from Bowen that with standard factory grips just is not my friend yet, but I am running warmish loads and likely need to work on my form…. Always room for improvement
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Post by gunsbam45 on Jun 8, 2024 15:11:22 GMT -5
Great to know that in your experience, Gunsbam, magna grips and low to medium loadings in a .500L Redhawk can be do-able, especially when well-fitted. I have a .44Mag Redhawk Kodiak from Bowen that with standard factory grips just is not my friend yet, but I am running warmish loads and likely need to work on my form…. Always room for improvement I bought a .500 barrel banded gun John Linebaugh built from an old gun writer along with the magazine he wrote about it in etc, and he sent along his loading supplies. He couldn't remember what the live ammo was for sure anymore, but he said back when he'd loaded them he probably had the cases full of 296. I labeled them "MYSTERY LOADS" and put them in the stash. Not long after I got my 4 3/4 L Frame Redhawk Bowen built that Roy had gripped, my friend who got me into big bore revolvers came by, and even though not a double action guy, was impressed with the gun and wanted to try it out. Those loads came out when I was pulling out ammo, and he decided he'd try them in the Redhawk, and they were the first thing he tried. He fired three and his hands were so bloody I took it away from him and got it wiped down and re-oiled immediately. He's a big, SUPER tough guy, and he couldn't control the gun. The Redhawk is not the platform for super heavies in .50 cal, at least for me, or anyone else I know other than one person, and he's simply a huge man with hands that dwarf most other human beings, and now that he's gotten older, even he doesn't run them as hot as he used to. I personally think that the N Frame grip just has it's limitations when it comes to big bore caliber conversions, but, we're all built a lil bit different. |
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Post by wyomingnimrod on Jun 9, 2024 14:09:50 GMT -5
We’re all built a little different indeed, in so many ways.
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Post by gunsbam45 on Jun 14, 2024 21:04:51 GMT -5
I have a set of snakewood Fishpaw grips on my Bowen convertible .50 special/ .500 Linebaugh. BUT I only shoot .50 special throughit. I save my .500 for a Bowen Bisley I have. Here is a pic of mine still up on Hallowells site where I got it from a couple years back. I figure Bowen put .50 special on the barrel so I would just shoot that and save the .500 cylinder for my kids to sell off when I am gone. Just sent it back to Hamilton for some action work/longer firing pin. He is almost done and about to send back he noted that "May be the first L-frame barrel gun we did. Grips are dated 1990. They have darkened a good deal with age...."  Can I get the exact barrel length from front of cylinder face to end of muzzle on this .50 Redhawk of yours? I'm trying to decide on barrel length for one. |
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Post by nfanewbie on Jun 15, 2024 0:56:25 GMT -5
Well not “exact” I am sure but my starrett digital dial caliper gets 4.0855 as best I can measure it. SO likely somewhere between 4.084 and 4.086. About as accurate as I can get for you.
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Post by gunsbam45 on Jun 19, 2024 9:31:38 GMT -5
Well not “exact” I am sure but my starrett digital dial caliper gets 4.0855 as best I can measure it. SO likely somewhere between 4.084 and 4.086. About as accurate as I can get for you. That'll be exact enuf  I just wanted a measurement rather than a recollection cus I assume other folks brains have the potential to be at least half as defective as mine. Have always liked your L Frame .50, and assumed it was a straight 4", but wanted to make sure. I'm trying to decide which barrel I want to do on a stainless one, and what length. Thanks a bunch for hollering back. |
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I just wanted a measurement rather than a recollection cus I assume other folks brains have the potential to be at least half as defective as mine. Have always liked your L Frame .50, and assumed it was a straight 4", but wanted to make sure. I'm trying to decide which barrel I want to do on a stainless one, and what length. Thanks a bunch for hollering back.