41 Magnum making a comeback?

[akajun]

^^^^^^^^
I just might add the words “hard cast”.

lol nope
Straight WW
Never had leading problem with my bullets, commercial cast before I cast my own yes.
Either way the animals didn’t seem to care

 

[spaniel]

Sadly I don't see the 41 coming back like the 10mm and I love them both.

I got a lightweight Taurus Tracker in 41Mag. They made them in 357 and 41, probably 100:1 by volume. When I first starting hunting out west the local guy I went with had the 357, seemed small to me, so I hunted and hunted until I procured a used 41. They were ported, and if you're forced to shoot them without ear protection you WILL jack your hearing.

For this reason I eventually ended up also getting a SW 329PD (44Mag) which became my grizzly backup. However, on the range, I can actually enjoy shooting the 41 with full power loads and the grips are comfortable. Even with a 500SW grip the 329PD is a miserable beast and one never shoots it for fun with full power loads.

 

[Dfish1247]

If it was a bisley hunter, I’d be in. But a stainless wheel is awful purty, even without ring mounts cut in.

I have three 41’s. 657 6.5”, 7.5” regular sbh, 6” and 10” kits for desert eagle. It’s my favorite rimmed cartridge just because it’s sort of odd but not so odd you can’t find anything for it at all.

It seems all revolvers short of 22’s are heading quickly towards novelty status now. Anything with a rim and stamped magnum is in the $1000-$1500 area. Not triple digits like the rimless semis.

 

[451whitworth]

Exactly my thought too … I always have felt that 44 magnum/special is overrated and therefore will never own one. It’s actually .429” so why did the person that invented those named them 44 instead of 43? Only logical answer is for marketing reason (read: misleading those less suspecting) and therefore I refuse to support this dishonest behavior in my view.

History lesson time. When cap and ball revolvers were being converted to cartridge firing they first loaded the cases with heeled bullets just like the .22 LR is still loaded today, i.e. the OD of the case diameter and exposed bullet diameter are the same. When S&W designed the .44 Russian No. 3 revolver for the Russian Empire, their bureau of ordinance rep didn't like the outside lubricated heeled lead bullets and insisted that the bullet be seated inside the cartridge case. So they reduced the diameter of the lead bullets to fit down in the case with the lube/lube grooves protected inside the cartridge case walls. If you look at a cartridge drawing of a .38 Special/.357 mag the OD of the cartridge case is .379" which is why they called it a .38 because it's parent case used .38 cal heeled bullets. The .44 Russian case was lengthened to make the .44 special, and again to make the .44 Mag which all sprang from the Russian case from 1870-ish.