when those first came out, i ran across one in a lgs. I made a mistake, and picked it up and it followed me home. I did replace the grips with the yellowish type favored in john wayne movies. I have never used pin guages on it, ruger wouldn't talk to me about the throats, but pearce did. The thing is as far as i can guess pretty tight. It's what got me on a 45kick, and while i have fired a bunch of stuff in it, mostly that scovill 270gr saa.
I did run across a bunch of 200gr round nose sooner or later i am gonna run in 45colt.
I do have a first year colt 44.40, and they do feel pretty close.
Just a good handling revolver. Pearce had a article in handloader a few years ago about them. They definitely will take more pressure than the old colt, but not up to the levels of a redhawk/blackhawk. I seem to remember without looking three different pressure levels and i want to say 22000psi. I wouldn't count on that figure without looking at the article. I have never really pushed it, figuring 280grains as cast at about 950fps works for just about everything.
