Hi folks. I happily received a 44 mag from my grandfather this past weekend. i dont know a whole lot about them, but ive looked around a fair bit and im learning. im pretty certain this has the non-recessed cylinder, and a non pinned barrel. im not sure if either of those things are desirable or not. but im pretty sure it doesnt really matter that much for my uses. and its not like im ever parting with this gun.
http://i.imgur.com/dkDQUK2.jpg
so my questions... im not sure if that is the original grip? it has the s&w logo inlay in it, but i found in a box of gun parts that he had, a hogue grip package for the same frame style gun.. labeled rubber moulded... with another wood grip in it... s&w inlay.. ill get a picture of it up soon, but its a checkered grip similar to this... so im not sure if he, or my uncle, did some playing around with the grips.
next question.. ive seen that the higher number dash models were made more robust to handle hotter loads... im planning on hunting deer with this gun. id like a reasonably aggressive deer load for it, but i dont want to tax the gun too hard. is there some sort of guideline or rule that i should follow when selecting my ammo? i cant imagine needing more than a cylinder or 2 to sight it in and get comfortable with the ammo... and then for range trips and such id just use some pretty basic rounds.
anything else you can tell me about the gun would be great.
first and foremost though... ive got to figure out how to get that trigger lock off of there!
thanks!
http://i.imgur.com/dkDQUK2.jpg
so my questions... im not sure if that is the original grip? it has the s&w logo inlay in it, but i found in a box of gun parts that he had, a hogue grip package for the same frame style gun.. labeled rubber moulded... with another wood grip in it... s&w inlay.. ill get a picture of it up soon, but its a checkered grip similar to this... so im not sure if he, or my uncle, did some playing around with the grips.
next question.. ive seen that the higher number dash models were made more robust to handle hotter loads... im planning on hunting deer with this gun. id like a reasonably aggressive deer load for it, but i dont want to tax the gun too hard. is there some sort of guideline or rule that i should follow when selecting my ammo? i cant imagine needing more than a cylinder or 2 to sight it in and get comfortable with the ammo... and then for range trips and such id just use some pretty basic rounds.
anything else you can tell me about the gun would be great.
first and foremost though... ive got to figure out how to get that trigger lock off of there!
thanks!