The first time I visited Florida, I saw all those alligators crossing sidewalks and such.
And I thought to myself that if there had been gators in the Ozarks, the darling wives of the pioneer farmers would have ordered the extermination of those huge lizards lest they eat a stray child, entirely and utterly.
If concealment is not a factor, I highly recommend a Ruger Redhawk 5 1/2” with an action Job to slick up the trigger pull.
Most rounds I’ve used in this are 44 Special “Skeeter” loads, but it will handle full max 44 magnums as many as you want to beat yourself up shooting.
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Should I ever need service, Ruger will service it. That’s another plus for the Redhawk.
They still do.The first time I visited Florida, I saw all those alligators crossing sidewalks and such.
And I thought to myself that if there had been gators in the Ozarks, the darling wives of the pioneer farmers would have ordered the extermination of those huge lizards lest they eat a stray child, entirely and utterly.
I hear newer Redhawks have the awesome spring system used in the GP/SP lines. If that had been the case with mine, I’d now have two 44’s
Factoid about modern medicine:Here’s my paternal great-grandfather’s concealed carry: an Iver Johnson Safety Automatic 32 SW. Being a second edition I only fire black powder reloads.
Dr Moutoux carried this in his pocket or house call bag, during his illustrious career. There’s a wing at Indiana University Medical Center named after the good doctor.
My oldest pipe, a ‘27-31 Kaywoodie 7204 Suntan Rock Amber was at least 30 years old when the revolver was new
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Such an elegant gun.If concealment is not a factor, I highly recommend a Ruger Redhawk 5 1/2” with an action Job to slick up the trigger pull.
Most rounds I’ve used in this are 44 Special “Skeeter” loads, but it will handle full max 44 magnums as many as you want to beat yourself up shooting.
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Should I ever need service, Ruger will service it. That’s another plus for the Redhawk.
I was gonna post that advert with my post. I love that everyone credits Glock with “inventing” the same style of trigger safety.Factoid about modern medicine:
Before penicillin, modern medicine reached about the same level it is today for a general practice doctor in 1890.
That is to say, when the kindly doctor arrived in his horse drawn buggy he was not a quack.
When Franklin Roosevelt was the leader of the free world in 1944, his doctors correctly diagnosed congestive heart failure and prescribed digitalis and nitroglycerin and told him to cut back on Camels. Exactly the same as they did my mother in 2006, when she got the same diagnosis, except Mama didn’t smoke.
The good doctor probably selected an Owl Head because of safety concerns.
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Cheap imitations of the geniune Iver Johnson led to a price war where copies fell as low as $2, likely leading to the saying, hotter than a two dollar pistol.
It was the Glock of the late nineteenth century.
Two things killed the Owl Head revolvers.
First, the Model T. Men no longer needed a pistol under their blankets or in their jacket pockets. They drove past danger.
Second, laws requiring permits to buy handguns. They no longer would pay five dollars to buy a little gun.
I hear newer Redhawks have the awesome spring system used in the GP/SP lines. If that had been the case with mine, I’d now have two 44’s
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I run a Winchester 94 in 44magMy Redhawk was made in 1984, and was worked by some famous Ruger smith out West, and polished with Simachrome, and has optional Ruger rear V and front brass bead sights.
In any event, a friend of mine loaned $500 on it at his pawn shop and I paid him $650 to have it as a “lookie at my Dirty Harry big 44” type piece, and it’s wonderful at that.
But when I go into Spout Spring Hollow alone I pack a pair of 44 Special Flattop with Keith loads.
I just added a Rossi 92 in 44 to the costume.
When I make a turn from the abandoned road onto my easement across the old road nobody knows how old, there still grows a bush planted my Mrs Greenville Nolan, who was raped by 18 Jayhawkers, and her husband murdered, the cabin burned, the stock stolen, and her two small children ran crying to a member of the 8th Missouri State Militia on patrol, on March 24, 1862.
How do you think that worked out, for those 18 raping, theiving, murdering Jawhawkers?
My friend Matt Keller recites the basic facts of the Battle of Humansville.
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But it was my great great grandmother (or one of her sisters) who led the Jawhawkers to justice in Spout Spring Hollow on a dancing gray pony.
It was there, they faced Mrs Nolan.
Alva Rains said one Jayhawker almost got away, made it close to where the sawmill stands today.
It isn’t nice to wear United States uniforms for a nefarious purpose, not at all.
Just inside the gate, Alva said all 18 Jawhawkers sleep in an unmarked mass grave.
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The men of the 8th Missouri, were quite civilized.
Their women were much more dangerous and unpredictable and bloodthirsty.
For gators you want to use the FN five seven
I always thought IJ revolvers were so cool .
I'm pretty sure Eastwood wasn't shooting full magnum loads (240 gr ?) one handed .The Model 29 was simply an improved 45 frame double action Smith.
Elmer Keith just loved his.
But after the Dirty Harry movies put the Smiths on a long waiting list at over list prices, Bill Ruger designed a big Security Six intended to shoot thousands of full house 44 magnums between servicing, at a reduced price than the Smith.
Elmer loved his Redhawk, and hated the trigger pull.
Like any other consumer product ever made, it was styled to catch a customer.
Too bad Dirty Harry couldn’t buy one.
Actually, I find my Model 29 fairly easy to handle - with a 6 inch barrel, it has a lot of mass ready to absorb the shock, plus, the 44 has a reasonable burn rate. Now my 454 - that was a hell of a mess to shoot.I'm pretty sure Eastwood wasn't shooting full magnum loads (240 gr ?) one handed .
