Bwana - 429 cylinder for a 44 mag Redhawk?
GregG
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Saturday, May 09, 2020, 05:45 (2294 days ago)
I don't know why it took so long to connect the dots with this. I don't recall seeing this spare cylinder option shown. So, if the .429GNR is a 44 bullet seated on a 454 Casull case, then can a 429GNR Redhawk cylinder be fitted to a stock 44 mag Redhawk so the cylinders are interchangeable?
Just ask WB...
Huey
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Saturday, May 09, 2020, 05:55 (2294 days ago) @ GregG
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That's right! Thanks, Huey
GregG
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Saturday, May 09, 2020, 06:49 (2294 days ago) @ Huey
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It can be done but requires some luck and
WB
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Saturday, May 09, 2020, 07:56 (2294 days ago) @ GregG
considerable want to. You have two options: send the gun to Ruger for a assy. to be fitted or roll the dice and buy some used parts off ebay or GB and see how close they come to fitting. I've not troubled GNR too much until I had success, his time is valued you know. Sometimes you get lucky, hand wringing if they don't. But I figured you could just re-sell them yourself. If the BC gap is wide there is not much you can do. A barrel is fitted to a cylinder, not the other way around. That's why some of my rigs look like they are exploding in stop frame photos. Just a thousandth or two will make huge fireballs and maybe small notable performance influences. Seems not as much as you'd think though. But fire indeed!
Thanks so much, Scotty! Much appreciated.
GregG
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Saturday, May 09, 2020, 09:01 (2294 days ago) @ WB
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How 'bout a spare cylinder for a 44 Super BH?
Dave H.
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Saturday, May 09, 2020, 07:41 (2294 days ago) @ GregG
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Won't work. In a SBH it has to be 5-Shot...
Huey
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Saturday, May 09, 2020, 09:02 (2294 days ago) @ Dave H.
Could easily get two five shot cylinders made. I've had that thought about a Blackhawk 41 Magnum and 410 GNR...
you can but it would be hard as I would have to
Gary Reeder
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Saturday, May 09, 2020, 11:16 (2294 days ago) @ GregG
have the crane and cylinder in one piece and Ruger won't sell the cranes. Your best bet would be to simply rechamber the factory 44 Mag cylinder to 429 GNR. The Redhawk and Super Redhawk cylinders are super strong and a 5 shot is not necessary in the 429 GNR. If you had dual cylinders every time you change calibers you have to pretty much take the whole gun apart to do so and you end up losing some of those tiny parts.
Thanks, Bwana. Hope you kicked the Green Monkey Fever.
GregG
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Saturday, May 09, 2020, 17:57 (2293 days ago) @ Gary Reeder
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