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Offline DirtyHarry

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RB 454 in 8 3/8"
« on: January 02, 2004, 09:02:32 PM »
Anyone have the RB with the 8 3/8" barrel? I just picked one up around christmas, and I must say it is a very comfortable gun to shoot.. the extra length/weight really calms down the recoil,so much so that I can pop off 5 shots in DA in about 5 seconds and be fairly accurate :grin:
Anyone else find this to be the case?
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« Reply #1 on: January 03, 2004, 04:36:20 AM »
My son has one and the recoil is very mild but we haven't tried to fire
 rounds fast in DA. The gun has been 100% so far and is very accurate.
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RB 454 in 8 3/8"
« Reply #2 on: January 03, 2004, 04:38:58 AM »
Yup got both .454 Casull and .480 Ruger in the 8-3/8" length. Very comfortable to shoot even with max loads and heavy bullets in both.

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WHY???? I can think of no reason I'm likely to ever have to want to do anything of the sort. Never tried it. Can't honestly say I've ever even fired a single shot from mine double action. Doubt I ever will.

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« Reply #3 on: January 04, 2004, 03:17:07 AM »
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WHY???? I can think of no reason I'm likely to ever have to want to do anything of the sort. Never tried it. Can't honestly say I've ever even fired a single shot from mine double action. Doubt I ever will.

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Well mostly just to see if I could get off multiple rounds fairly quickly with some accuracy, but also to see how the gun performed under a little stress :D
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« Reply #4 on: January 09, 2004, 02:43:08 PM »
It's 8",except you can't see it in this picture.I got a doe with it new years day,WEAR MUFFS!!!!! Took a day for my right ear to stop ringing.

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« Reply #5 on: January 09, 2004, 05:44:39 PM »
I hear ya! I have a tricky left ear due to shooting alot with no muff's when I was a little younger. How did you time that pic anyway? I like that pic more every time I see it :D
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« Reply #6 on: January 23, 2004, 01:28:58 PM »
I put my camera on a tripod and then on the night setting so that the shutter was open a long time and did the 3-2-1-Boom thing,Took a few trys for each one but I got a bunch of em.Here's another one.
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Offline Pat Marlin

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« Reply #7 on: January 24, 2004, 09:10:49 AM »
I've got one, and It has a very good trigger, and the action is very smooth for outtada box performance.

The edges of the Hammer could need smoothing out, other wise it is a well finished peace.

Found a problem with mine... one of the chambers in the cylinder is out of time.  If you put a slite amount of drag on the cylinder, with your finger while cocking slowly, the bolt does not lock before the hammer bottoms out.

If you leave it in that postion, then look down the barrel, its not perfectly lined up with the barrel.  Not good.  It is a hair shy of locking into place.

All the other chambers lock up nicely.

I sent it back, and we'll see how well they do, and how long it takes to fix it.................... :roll:
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