I never understood the attraction of the 41 vs the 44 mag... or the maaany other "X caliber vs Y" that do pretty much the same.
I never understood the attraction of the 41 vs the 44 mag... or the maaany other "X caliber vs Y" that do pretty much the same.
Not that you'd notice. Look at loading data using H110 in .41 Mag, .44 Mag, and .45 Colt. There's a little bullet weight, velocity, or trajectory difference but they all get it done.Originally Posted by SLG
"Gunfighting is a thinking man's game. So we might want to bring thinking back into it."-MDFA
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Picked up a 41 mag. old model Ruger blackhawk as well as a box of HSM bear loads. 230g at 1230 or so. Brisk recoil, but not painful in any way. May have to get a 57 or 657 and go head to head with my favorite .44
Good luck! Decent ones are very hard to find.
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That's cool. I've been playing with a 41 for a week or so now, and I can attest, it has exactly 2.5X the stopping power of a .38 :-)
I ve said before that if "Dirty Harry" had been armed with a 6" Model 57 as a long barreled and adjustable sight version of what the patrol guys at SFPD were carrying in the 4" model 58's, the world would have been a better place. It would have given us a ton more police trade in 58's and 57's, as well as more ammunition availability and development. I can't help but think that something along the lines of a 200-220 gr. HST type bullet at 1000 fps would be a wicked police round.
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Nyeti, just imagine if .41 had caught on. There would be 3" M58s waiting for stag grips.
"Gunfighting is a thinking man's game. So we might want to bring thinking back into it."-MDFA
Beware of my temper, and the dog that I've found...
You probably could back off the velocity to 900 fps and it would still work. To my mind the .41 and the .44 Special are two extremely underrated cartridges that with proper modern loads would perform excellently (the same is true for your old love, the .45 Colt).
Keeping in mind that we were dropping crooks like lightning hit them with the .45 Colt 225 gr. Silvertip, I can only imagine some solid modern bullet development around current standards for these calibers would be like.
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