Ruger .44 Spl. Flat Top Blackhawk
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September 21st, 2011 at 12:24 pm
The gun and leather are both beautiful.
And the 44 special is a sweet load to shoot.
September 21st, 2011 at 5:04 pm
I’ve only been shooting and loading for .44 Special for 6 months or so, but in that time I’ve come to realize that it is not only a “practice” load for .44 Magnum, it stands alone as a good caliber in it’s own right. So far, I have a Charter Arms Bulldog and a Marlin 1894 to shoot it in, but, along with the .45 Colt, which i don’t shoot, these old, rimmed straight-case calibers are almost as versatile as the .357 Magnum.
BTW, the premier defense load in .44 Special is the CCI/Blazer 200-gr “Flying Ashtray” super-wide hollow point (sorry, NJ). Not reloadable as the hulls are aluminum, but hot and fast-expanding at it’s nominal velocities. I brew up a defense load of a 240-gr copper-plated Flat Nose over 7 grains of Unique, and it chronos in the 990 region out of the short barrel Bulldog. Actually, 6.5 grains does almost as well.
September 21st, 2011 at 9:49 pm
I have one of these – mine was from the first run that Ruger did for Lipsey’s as a limited edition; the .44 Special Lipsey Flattops proved so popular that Ruger made it a regular catalog item – and a similarly-sized Anniversary Flattop Blackhawk in .357. The only difference besides caliber is that my .44 has the 5 1/2″ barrel, where the Anniversary .357’s tube is 4 5/8″.
The .44 SPL version quickly became my favorite gun. It will do everything my .357 will do, yet is much more pleasant to shoot and, I feel, is more accurate to boot. Now I just need a Henry Big Boy .44 levergun to match it…