Let's be honest. The .44 Magnum is a fraud, being a .429 in true caliber, while the .41 Magnum is the real McCoy.With comparable loads, the .41 Magnum can do anything the .44 Magnum can do, and it is a real survivor.
Posted on 06/29/2018 5:16:21 AM PDT by w1n1
Let's be honest. The .44 Magnum is a fraud, being a .429 in true caliber, while the .41 Magnum is the real McCoy.
With comparable loads, the .41 Magnum can do anything the .44 Magnum can do, and it is a real survivor.
The popularity of the .41-caliber Magnum seems to ebb and flow, but those who have stuck with it make it as versatile a choice as its siblings.
I've carried the .41 Magnum for personal protection, killed a couple of deer with it, shot long-range targets (it's a favorite among silhouette shooters) and had it in the back country as a utility gun.
I like to think the really smart handgunners prefer this to the everybody’s-got-to-have-one .44 Magnum. And a lot of guys who have been around the block a few times have come to the same conclusion I did more than 30 years ago: It's a damned fine cartridge.
THE .41 MAGNUM IS CAPABLE of some impressive ballistics. With lighter bullets, it can warp along at more than 1,650 fps, and my favorite handloads zip out in the 1,250 to 1,600 fps range, depending upon the bullet weight, powder charge and barrel length. Read the rest of the .41 Magnum story here.
It’s still clickbait.
At least this guy knows that 34 comes before 42.
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American Shooting Journal always is, but if you’re interested in the subject, who cares.
Because “it’ll blow your head clean off”?
.44 special for the recoil sensitive.
I liked it.
Was it five shots or six?
“Last year, I visited my friend Jim Zumbo.”
Ah yes, good old Jim “nobody needs an AR-15” Zumbo.
Feh....
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It’s hard to get a .41 cal revolver. I looked to buy one at one time, but even if you could find one, they wanted a lot of money for it.
That’s nice - sometimes it seems folks get so hung up on pure power that they forget to tailor it to the intended job. Kind of like folks who spend big bucks on a 3.2 second 0-60 car that will do 190mph and never do anything in it that they couldn’t do in a 6 second car that will only do 145mph....My more powerful weapons only see light of day at the range for various daily needs reasons.
“41 Magnum can do anything the .44 Magnum can do”
Except shoot a 240gr slug at 1475fps. The 41 only gets to 1250fps.
As I recall from Small Arms of the World, both the .44 and .41 magnums were developed by Remington in the late 50s for the California Highway Patrol, who had requested a round powerful enough to penetrate a fleeing car’s fenders and engine block, rendering it inoperable.
Note: In 2009 outside Cody, WY a .41 revolver was used to kill a sow Griz that attacked a fisherman.
It was a rather emaciated sub-300lb. sow with 3 cubs, that had blindsided him.
He picked himself up and fired as she began a second attack, and then had to fire a third time to finish the job.
This is from recall, as I was up there 3 days after it happened, talking with locals.
I gots to know...
Was always my dads favorite. Old man had an FFL and sold guns. I bet we had literally thousands of handguns pass through our house. He shot everything under the sun. And he just kept coming back to his old model 57s. He had one in particular, a very early model, stainless, pinned and recessed, 8 inch barrel. He had sent it in to the factory and had them do a trigger job on it.
Man, that thing was friggin sweet shooting! And if you fired a few “hot” loads that sucker would make your nose bleed.
Had one, didn’t like it much, loved the gun, just didn’t like shooting it.
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There is an OHP Trooper of my acquaintance who carries a very sweet Model 57 in his daily patrols. Neat guy to talk to, too.
No real facts offered here. I have a .44 Magnum. I’ve seen the effect on ballistics gel, read the information, read testimonials and fired it myself. It’s a effing cannon. I feel quite confident it can stop anything coming at me be it man or beast. Oh and the ammo is easier to find than .41 Magnum. So why would I want something less powerful and more difficult to find ammo for?
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