Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Handguns Big Bore Handguns, anyone?

Hopefully the components will get here in the next couple weeks and I will get a batch of these into production.

I'm a 4 & 1 shooter myself! John you can't shoot as good as Mackay!!

Dick

Nice looking cartridges and bullets. I would have no issues carry that 320 grain load anywhere that I would roam.
The 1150 fps out of the 4-5/8" is perfect for me.

I like most anything in a revolver.
But, .429, .452, and .475 are definitely my personal favorites. Depends on the day which is the most favorite.

Put me on the list for some of those 320 grainers.......

Mackay, Not much you couldn’t get done with that 320 grain WFN at 1155. My go to load is the 45-270-SAA 285 grain Keith SWC pushed by HS6 to about 1100 fps. This is in my 5 1/2” stainless Bisley Blackhawk.

Ron

As soon as I can get some more components, I will be putting them into production.


I did just do a "Special" run of .44 Specials.

They are 200 grain full wadcutters.

I found a sweet spot, accuracy wise at 1055 FPS. (out of RDO equipped M29 Classic).

I did some accuracy testing/shooting at 25 yards.

This is two, 5-shot groups.




That gun stacks them in there, when you have a good rest.

And of course, I managed to pull my usual trick of shooting a decent group and messing it up, by having one shot decide to go someplace else....




This one I won't complain about.



Overall the 200 grain full wadcutters are very accurate and have a fair bit less recoil than the standard 240 grain SWC load. It will be a great target, home defense. CCW, and small game load for those who want to carry a .44 Special.

I am personally looking forward to finding some unsuspecting Jackrabbits to punch holes through with it.

Nice revolvers. In the past I've owned a couple Bowen custom Ruger Bisleys, a custom Vaquero large frame, several Freedom Arms and one of the BFR. I tried to like the Ruger Bisley frame and it's grip but it's extremely painful for me to use and it's far too small between the grip and trigger guard so they went down the road. The BFR and Freedom Arms work fit me and are ideal single actions.

Today my revolvers are an S&W mountain gun and an old regular 629, an super redhawk and a pair of Ruger Alaskans. I'm perfectly happy at this point in life with the Ruger Alaskan and its ideal with 45colt.

Everyone should have at least one .500 center fire and a .50 caliber black powder pistol

That is one Gorgeous handgun
Congrat's

Thanks!

That looks consistent with the numbers I was getting.


The wide nose/meplat on the bullet is going to hammer some big old critters lol!

Nothing is going to walk a way with a solid hit from one of theses.

46.8 yards

JWP, is that a single round, or a group?

That custom gun is a sweet setup.

A group

JWP,
Who did the custom work on that Redhawk? Looks like something Bowen would do….

Jack Huntington, I've also have a 44 cylinder and barrel for it. Can go from 45 Colt/454 to 44 mag/special.
Bowen did made some Redhawks with the Dan Wesson barrel system but, I don't belive that he ever made a switch caliber