Maybe I just got a good one....
I bought a New Model Blackhawk .45 Colt/.45ACP 7.5" barrel in 1983. At the time, I had about zero experience with SA revolvers, and none at all with the .45 Colt. I had some handgun experience, having used my Dad's pistols in the early to mid 70s, before I went into the Army, but he didn't have any SA revolvers. He said he didn't like the grips.
I bought the Blackhawk because it had a .45ACP cylinder, and my thought was, since I already had a ,45 auto pistol, I could use the Ruger to plink with, and not have to chase my brass and play hide and seek in the sagebrush.
Turns out I was right about that, but I made one
tiny mistake...
On my way home with the new gun (and, of course dies) it occurred to me that since the guns was "also" a .45 Colt, I ought to get at least some ammo for that, so I stopped at a hardware store (yes they had ammo, in those days, this was long before Walmart..
) and got a box.
Winchester 255gr, the standard factory ammo. (no cowboy stull back then, either). My small "mistake" was that I shot the gun with .45 Colt ammo FIRST!!
I fell in love!!!
The heavens shook with thunder!! The barrel pointed to the sky, and it seemed the ground shook, though I know it actually didn't.
THIS was GREAT!!!!
THIS was a REAL GUN!!!
By comparison, a little later, when I did shoot the ACP rounds, I was considerably "underwhelmed". What was a powerful load in my semi just went "pow" and barely seemed to recoil in the big Ruger. All in all, shooting ACP in that gun just seemed "meh".
I "solved" the "practical problems" of swapping cylinders and different points of aim simply by not bothering to use the ACP cylinder. In the next 30 years, I don't think I put 300 rnds of ACP in that gun. A few thousand .45 Colts though..
SO, ironically, the gun I bought with the intention of shooting ACP, taught me the .45 Colt, and more than that, what a Ruger Blackhawk could DO with the .45 Colt.
Never heard a word about Ruger's "bad" chamber throats when I got the gun. Best I can recall, I never heard about that until years later. I've never checked my gun's throats, don't see the point.
I've put 5 shots in one hole and one just barely out at short range (50ft) using 200gr ACP LSWC bullets over 8gr Unique, and the load I settled on as my standard, after a time of loading everything, including "Ruger Only" loads is a 250gr SWC over 10gr Unique. Does about 1100fps from my gun, groups well and hits what I aim at out to 200yds. Recoil is there, enough to let you know you're shooting something with some power, but not so bad that it beats you up. Or me, at any rate.
Some years later, I bought a second one. That one had Hogue grips on it, and I wanted to try them. Figured with a second one, I'd make that one a .45ACP and just use it that way, so no switching cylinders, just change guns...
Sadly, I was unhappy with the Hogue grips, the size and shape were ok, but the hard plastic pebbled surface just didn't do it for me, compared to the Pachmayrs I have on my first Blackhawk.
Also the hollow hard plastic Hogue grip acted like a speaker box, there was a loud hollow sounding "ka Klunk" when you cocked the gun. Didn't care for that. That gun now has stock Ruger grips, the ACP cylinder, and I almost never use it.
My original Blackhawk .45 is about my favorite revolver, with my S&W M28 (6") a virtual tie, depending on what I want to do.