I fired 10 rounds standing with the 100 grain load. I adjusted the sights for a 6 oвЂ™clock hold at 25 yards. I am going to try casting some 115-130 range bullets with gas checks to see if the rifling will handle them. The cylinder will easily handle longer/heavier bullets. 327 Blackhawk as the top of the 100 grain load is around 0.245вЂќ from the front of the cylinder. Someone at Ruger must have remembered this when designing the. The Ruger owners were shooting a lot more 158 grain bullets and flame cutting was an issue with the light bullets and the Rugers were soon pulled off the market. Silhouette shooters liked to load 180 and 200 grain bullets which worked fine in the DW but were long for the Ruger. Ruger made the cylinder shorter than the Dan Wesson in the same caliber. I am old enough to remember when Ruger made a Blackhawk in. In other words, the Ruger makes 150 ft/lbs more energy than the 40 S&W 180 load, 35% more, while the 40 S&W has 20% more felt recoil than the Ruger.

For comparison, think of a 2.5 pound pistol in 40 S&W shooting a 180 grain load at 1025 fps would make about 420 ft/lbs of energy and generate about 6 ft/lbs of recoil. The recoil would calculate to be around 5 ft/lbs with this load. I bought a couple of boxes of Federal 100 grain loads and they clocked out around 1600 FPS or more so that puts the kinetic energy around the 570 ft/lbs range. The gun weighs about 3 pounds empty and that is part of what makes it so pleasant to shoot as it lessens the felt recoil. 32 H&R and this revolver is just more solid and bigger when you pick it up. I picked this one up used and here are my opinions for what it is worth. Anyway, I looked on the Ruger site to see what the price is now and it was no longer listed. I had thought about getting one over the last year or so and then the gun craziness hit in November. I just got a new-to-me Ruger Blackhawk in.

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