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Offline shilo

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Ruger discontinued the 480 in SuperRedhawk
« on: September 13, 2007, 04:18:36 PM »
Looked at a new Ruger catalog and it appears that they have discontinued the 480 Ruger in the SuperRedhawk.
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Re: Ruger discontinued the 480 in SuperRedhawk
« Reply #1 on: September 14, 2007, 02:44:50 PM »
  They did this a while ago.  There was extraction issues.  As I understand it, they required a different composition of the steel used in the 480 cylinders.  it was stronger but also a bit elastic.  When a cartidge was fired the chamb expanded ever so slightly.  So did the casing.  the cylinder /chamer returned to it's size whilethe casing of course did not.  Hence the extraction issues. 
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Re: Ruger discontinued the 480 in SuperRedhawk
« Reply #2 on: September 24, 2007, 05:39:49 PM »
Interesting, thanks.
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Re: Ruger discontinued the 480 in SuperRedhawk
« Reply #3 on: October 16, 2007, 02:29:44 PM »
According to what I've learned there redesigning it
to chamber the 475L.
re working the cylinders to 5 shot on both the 480 and 454.
just thought I'd pass this on...

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