I joined the Blackhawk club

You do realize the BH and SBH are the same thing, except some SBHs have a dragoon grip frame....
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Essentially the same gun, not exactly the same gun. For decades, Ruger only offered the Super Blackhawk in one configuration and barrel length. Currently, they are offering the Super with "Blackhawk features".

The Super (and I'm talking#1, New Model guns, and #2, the "classic", the only variant available for all those years) is the same frame as the Blackhawk. The differences are the unfluted cylinder, the steel ejector rod housing, the Dragoon style grip frame, also steel (which is slightly longer than the Blackhawk frame, so grips are not interchangeable), and the different hammer, and grooved trigger.

Other than the style of the Dragoon grip, the differences are intended to make the gun easier to manage with .44 Mag loads. Steel where the Blackhawk has alloy, unfluted cylinder, for weight. Larger hammer spur in a different position than the Blackhawk, and a grooved trigger where the Blackhawk is smooth (not an improvement for me, personal opinion)

I like my Super Blackhawk, but I'm not crazy about the feel. Probably due to 30+ years experience with a 7.5" Blackhawk .45 Colt. With the different hammer and trigger, the "feel" of the gun is just enough different to seem odd, to me. Totally personal preference, and what I am used to.

Congrats on getting a "Super B", they are fine guns.
 
Other than the style of the Dragoon grip, the differences are intended to make the gun easier to manage with .44 Mag loads. Steel where the Blackhawk has alloy, unfluted cylinder, for weight. Larger hammer spur in a different position than the Blackhawk, and a grooved trigger where the Blackhawk is smooth (not an improvement for me, personal opinion)
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I've owned two new model Super's, and neither had/has a grooved trigger...
 
lets see some nice grips guys. I like the feel of these hogues but rather they'd been stag or wood.

also, hows about some leather carrying rigs....
 

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As far as nice grips go, here is my Super Blackhawk wih walnut grips made by CaryC from walnut I sent to him:



And my .45 Colt ex-Bisley, fitted with a Super Blackhawk grip, stocked with elk stag:



And another .45 Colt, stocked with ebony:



New Model Super Blackhawk with grips of Bolivian rosewood:



And another New Model with grips of vermilion wood:



Bob Wright
 
I've owned two new model Super's, and neither had/has a grooved trigger...
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The one I have has a grooved trigger. were the guns you had from the "modern era"? (meaning from the time Ruger began putting other options (regular triggerguard, fluted cylinder,etc?)

I see on the web you can get those, and even the built in scope mounts these days, but I haven't personally examined one of them.
 
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