Boerrancher
04-30-2013, 07:49 AM
Years ago I bought dad a Ruger Redhawk 44mag. As some of you know I was having difficulty getting dad's guns back and even had some of them sold by his widow's relatives. On of them I did manage to recover was the Redhawk. Yesterday was the first time that hand gun has been fired. I ran a box of shells through it that I had loaded nearly 20 years ago for my Redhawk. They were topped off with a 260 gr Kieth boolit if I remember correctly and powered with a max charge of 2400.
I was very impressed at how this out of the box revolver shot. Mine shoots really well, but it is a custom shop gun, I scoped it and with it's 8 inch barrel it will shoot a great deal better than I can shoot it. The one I got for dad has a 4 inch barrel, iron sights, and is nothing special other than the Pachmyre grips dad put on it. With the full bore loads, shorter barrel, and iron sights I was still able to shred several soda cans at 25 to 50 yards with it. I went to clean it before I fired it and I don't think dad ever put a round through it. There was no ring on the cylinder to indicate that it had ever been rotated. I may have just found a new favorite hip holster gun that I like better than my GP100.
Best wishes,
Joe
I was very impressed at how this out of the box revolver shot. Mine shoots really well, but it is a custom shop gun, I scoped it and with it's 8 inch barrel it will shoot a great deal better than I can shoot it. The one I got for dad has a 4 inch barrel, iron sights, and is nothing special other than the Pachmyre grips dad put on it. With the full bore loads, shorter barrel, and iron sights I was still able to shred several soda cans at 25 to 50 yards with it. I went to clean it before I fired it and I don't think dad ever put a round through it. There was no ring on the cylinder to indicate that it had ever been rotated. I may have just found a new favorite hip holster gun that I like better than my GP100.
Best wishes,
Joe