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Re: How handy is a .44 magnum?
« Reply #20 on: December 04, 2009, 05:07:03 PM »
DAMN!

Looks like someone used the wrong type powder.   
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Re: How handy is a .44 magnum?
« Reply #21 on: December 04, 2009, 05:11:10 PM »
Even Dirty Harry stuck with Factory Loads!!!!!!

Lucky it blew up vertically,... Shows the strength of the rest of the frame though...

He is now a proud member of the .38 Special Club,.... ???
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Re: How handy is a .44 magnum?
« Reply #22 on: December 04, 2009, 06:27:15 PM »
I wouldn't think a double load would have fit in the case...  But to blow up a Super Redhawk!!!!!  WOWEEE!!!  That took a special kind of stupid!

Didn't Dirty Harry say something about using "A special light load"?  Though you'd never know it the way they show the recoil in the movies.

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Re: How handy is a .44 magnum?
« Reply #23 on: December 04, 2009, 06:31:40 PM »
It's a S&W 29
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Re: How handy is a .44 magnum?
« Reply #24 on: December 04, 2009, 06:33:26 PM »
On second look, aren't we both wrong?  Looks like a regular Redhawk.

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Re: How handy is a .44 magnum?
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Re: How handy is a .44 magnum?
« Reply #25 on: December 04, 2009, 06:40:22 PM »
It's a Smith & Wesson You can see the S&W logo and the cylinder release.
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Re: How handy is a .44 magnum?
« Reply #26 on: December 04, 2009, 06:45:11 PM »
i'd guess wrong powder. 
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Re: How handy is a .44 magnum?
« Reply #27 on: December 04, 2009, 06:56:28 PM »
Maybe not the wrong powder, just way too damn much of it!!!
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Re: How handy is a .44 magnum?
« Reply #28 on: December 04, 2009, 07:02:29 PM »
To blow off like that...  Maybe BOTH!
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Re: How handy is a .44 magnum?
« Reply #29 on: December 04, 2009, 07:18:54 PM »
If CCW isn't a concern, its hard to beat a .44 mag. MB has it right, .44 special for SD, mags for hunting. The .357 will work as well and both are a nice as a two gun rig with a carbine. Thats the only  thing that would stop me from going with the .454 cassull and down loading to .45 Colt. I agree with Badger on his wish for Ruger to give us a good .44 mag semi carbine, but there are plenty of bolts and levers out there. IMHO, recoil isn't much worse than .357 and if hunting for deer and up is part of the game, why not?
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