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My 2 favorite handguns....
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Those are beauty's, 44mag and 45LC ?
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Great thread. Keep the .44's coming.
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Yes. 44 Rem. Mag. and 45 Colt.
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Those are beauty's, 44mag and 45LC ?
I agree, those are SWEET. Got my double action light primer strike issue on the new M629 squared away. Factory left the strain screw loose... She's shootin great, very accurate.
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My 2 favorite handguns.... Good gravy. Dave
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How's the new mountain gun shooting? I'd love to have one of those.
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my .44 mag. 5.5" barrel, unconverted, with stainless ER pusher. A perfect packing pistol
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How's the new mountain gun shooting? I'd love to have one of those. It shoots 44 mags great. I just got some Black Hills .44sp 210gr. Haven't had a chance to try any of them yet.
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My "play money" comes in october.
I'm leaning towards either a 586 4 inch classic, or a 5 inch 629 and some swanky grips
I won't need any hot rod loads something that will cleanly take a whitetail at 25-30 yards yet is mild enough to spend an afternoon plinking with I presume you hand load but a mild factory 44 load is Ultramax's--a 240-for lead bullet with a semi-flat meplat and I'm guessing ~ 900 fps or so, enough for any whitetail at the ranges you mention. Use them in my 329 for plinking.
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My "play money" comes in october.
I'm leaning towards either a 586 4 inch classic, or a 5 inch 629 and some swanky grips
I won't need any hot rod loads something that will cleanly take a whitetail at 25-30 yards yet is mild enough to spend an afternoon plinking with I presume you hand load but a mild factory 44 load is Ultramax's--a 240-for lead bullet with a semi-flat meplat and I'm guessing ~ 900 fps or so, enough for any whitetail at the ranges you mention. Use them in my 329 for plinking. Thanks George, I did see those, and will probably gran some.
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I found the 5 inch full under lug a bit heavy so 4 inch 629 and 240 grain keith bullets 9 grains of unique for now
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Just picked this up last week. Ruger Blackhawk Hunter 44 mag with MagnaPort Stalker Conversion and Leupole 4x. Can't wait to burn some powder tomorrow. Mike
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My 2 favorite handguns.... Very Nice!
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My 2 favorite handguns.... Beautiful. Look like a couple of Elmer Keith's.
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My very first .44 mag, back in the 1970's, was a Herters. It was a heavy gun, with a 4" barrel and plenty of recoil. Made a very satisfying boom when fired, and tested the shooter's resolve. I loved it! Sold or traded it later, but had fond memories of shooting it. Found this Herters a few weeks ago, 6" barrel, needed some TLC. Traded an old Charter Arms .38/.357 Bulldog for it. Had to tighten the ejector rod housing, give the whole gun a thorough cleaning, scrub the carbon ring out of the chambers caused from evidently shooting way too many .44 Specials in it. Also replaced the grips, which appeared to have been hand carved from a piece of pine plywood with a box cutter. I guess I had forgotten what I knew about these guns, but they were made in West Germany by Saur & Sons. Front sight is tall enough to have made Elmer happy, rear sight an adjustable gold buckhorn type. Grip is quite a big larger than a Ruger. Cylinder has recesses for the case heads, which I did not remember from the other I had over 30 years ago. Many won't care for it, but just for me I stripped the finish, rust browned the cylinder frame, and left the rest - at least for now - polished steel. I am taking it easy with this old timer, loading 292 gr cast bullets I got in a trade to about .44 Special velocities (800 fps or so) in .44 mag cases. Shoots good, pretty accurate, makes a good "woods walking" gun, even if it is pretty heavy. I traded for this gun intending to use it as a test platform for DIY projects I would not try on my Rugers, and I am enjoying "interacting" with it. Mike
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What's a fair price for an Model 629? stainless 6"?
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Trump being classless,tasteless and clueless as usual. Sorry, trump is a no tax payin pile of shiit. My young wife decided to play the field and had moved several dudes into my house
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don't know, seems like an early one
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