

- Ruger blackhawk 41 mag date of manufacture serial#
- Ruger blackhawk 41 mag date of manufacture manual#
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The rugged all-steel front ramp sight appears to be soldered to the barrel, while the fully-adjustable rear sight seems to be of Ruger’s own manufacture as a more-or-less imitation of the Micro brand sights used on earlier Blackhawks. The sights on this revolver are sturdy and useful. I added some white paint to the front sight. Rear view of the Super Blackhawk New Model. I’ve been pleased with it, although I have little or no positive feeling for the Hogue company or its other products. Fortunately, I found this Hogue Monogrip early in my search, and it was thus over.

Therefore, I started hunting for new grips just as soon as I got this revolver. Ruger always used itty-bitty walnut grip panels on its single action revolvers grips which I dislike to the extreme. This is most likely due to different steel alloys reacting differently to the bluing salts when the metal parts were finished. If you look closely, you’ll notice the frame and barrel are a different color than the cylinder. Interestingly, the Ruger “phoenix logo” is not marked on this gun, although it was on the metal inserts in the tiny factory wood grips.
Ruger blackhawk 41 mag date of manufacture manual#
Most of the markings are on the left side of the New Model Super Blackhawk, like so:īEFORE USING GUN-READ WARNINGS IN INSTRUCTION MANUAL AVAILABLE FREE FROM Left side of Ruger New Model Super Blackhawk 44 magnum single action revolver.

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The only marking evident on the right side is the serial number, stamped at lower right portion if the frame. The ejector rod housing is made of aluminum alloy rather than steel, but most of the metal on this popper is ferrous. This was one of my first firearm purchases ever, and it’s been good to me, although I have never taken any big game with it. This particular one has a 7.5-inch barrel and was made around 1981. Right side of Ruger New Model Super Blackhawk 44 magnum single action revolver.
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These new versions were called “New Model” and were met with both cheers and jeers by handgun lovers cheers because now they could more safely carry a single action revolver with a full load of 6 rounds in the cylinder, and jeers because the trigger pull was not as nice and the cylinder indexing can make loading and unloading a pain the butt. Another notable feature is that no movement of the hammer is required to load or unload the redesigned revolvers, because the loading gate itself releases the cylinder when opened. The 44 mag was a bit much for the Blackhawk’s frame, and a few years later that chambering moved to a beefed-up wheel gun dubbed the Super Blackhawk.įast-forward to 1973, when William Batterman Ruger, ever the tinkerer, decided to overhaul his single action designs to make them safer by preventing the hammer from ever touching the firing pin directly. One year later the 44 Remington Magnum made its entrance, and the first single action revolver available for that round was Bill Ruger’s Flat Top Blackhawk 44. Ruger’s first centerfire handgun was the Blackhawk, introduced in 1955 to great success. We’ve been talking Ruger 44 magnums lately, so why not keep it going? Here’s a look at a New Model Super Blackhawk single action revolver chambered for 44 Remington Magnum. The Ruger New Model Super Blackhawk 44 Magnum Revolver
