The 9mm Blackhawk enigma continues....

[Stantheman1986]

I took my other 9mm Blackhawk out today, after having fired my 9mm Flat Top last week for the first time in years

I still have the .357 cylinder but I think I used it once , and probably rarely if ever will again.

I loc Tited up the Bowen Rough Country rear sight, like I was supposed to do 5 years ago when I got it and never did. I confirmed zero, loc tited the screws then sandbagged it at 15 yards. With Winchester 9mm, I was just watching a ragged hole get bigger with each shot.

At 25 , once again, things opened up. I'm honestly a pretty good shot, not a world class match shooter but I know my way around a revolver by this point in my life.

Both my 9mm Blackhawks are pretty much "minute of man" at 25 despite putting them on top of each other at 15. That 10 yards extra is just the instability point for the .355 bullets out of a .357 bore

People say they have 9mm convertibles that drive tacks at 25, they must be lucky .

These guns are still lots of fun. I was reloading with an old beat up 9mm magazine. It's honestly fun to try to keep them all inside a silhouette at 25 and it's a much cheaper way to plink around with a Single Action than using .38 or .45 . These are basically Center fire .22's for me

 

[contender]

"I took my other 9mm Blackhawk out today, after having fired my 9mm Flat Top last week for the first time in years"

I'm assuming you were talking about a New Model?" Ruger never made an OM Flattop with a .9mm cylinder.

 

[Stantheman1986]

"I took my other 9mm Blackhawk out today, after having fired my 9mm Flat Top last week for the first time in years"

I'm assuming you were talking about a New Model?" Ruger never made an OM Flattop with a .9mm cylinder.

It's the 50th Anniversary or whatever it was called when Ruger made the batch of convertible Flat Tops

 

[Rclark]

It should then be 'marked' with the 50th Anniversary on the top of the barrel. if so, that NM flattop never came with a 9mm cylinder. I have one.

A few years later Lipseys came out with run of 5 1/2" and 4 5/8" NM flattop .357 convertibles. And of course I had to buy a blued 5 1/2" at that time. This is probably what you are talking about.

 

[Stantheman1986]

It must be that one, that came with the 9mm cylinder
I bought it probably 7 or 8 years ago most likely off Davidson's, I don't collect em, I accumulate them and I shoot them all. I don't memorize all the variations and I'm not selling any, so I don't keep track of the Exclusives. I also have a few TALO guns like the 6" unfluted .357 GP100, I just thought it looked cool.

 

[Hvymax]

9mm Enigma??? More like a Crime against nature.

 

[Stantheman1986]

It puts holes in paper the same as Blackhawks in cool guy calibers......the trees and Indian Ghosts who witnessed this Crime today at my gun club won't tell anyone

 

[Hvymax]

It would be practical if they shrunk the frames and cylinders to make a lighter more compact revolver for concealed carry or something. Semi Auto rounds do amazingly well in a lot of platforms because they allow more actual barrel in the same size package. My 357sig Bond Arms is over 1,700 fps with Accurate #9 carbine loads. When I get more bullets I'll throw some together with V3N37 to top 1,800fps easily. A 3" barreled 9mm scaled LCR would be an amazing carry piece!!!

 

[Stantheman1986]

It would be practical if they shrunk the frames and cylinders to make a lighter more compact revolver for concealed carry or something. Semi Auto rounds do amazingly well in a lot of platforms because they allow more actual barrel in the same size package. My 357sig Bond Arms is over 1,700 fps with Accurate #9 carbine loads. When I get more bullets I'll throw some together with V3N37 to top 1,800fps easily. A 3" barreled 9mm scaled LCR would be an amazing carry piece!!!

As sketchy as Taurus is, they were actually on to something with that M380 revolver they used to sell.

I had one, but the 40lb trigger pull and just rough action made it impossible to hit anything. It felt like the action was about to break when you pulled the trigger. I dry fired it once by accident and it mashed up the firing pin spring, I had to take everything apart and put the spring back around the firing pin. It didn't give me a warm and fuzzy for carry.

The idea was good, it was a small frame, steel revolver with a short cylinder, short barrel and if I recall it was DAO. 5 rounds of .380 on moon clips, it was "almost" the ideal little deep concealment revolver for when you just need shoot and scoot gun

Auto rounds are ideal for little pocket guns, I keep wishing someone would make a micro sized Double Action in .32 ACP