Looking for a nice match to a Ruger Blackhawk in .44 mag and ran across a Ruger Carbine in the same caliber. Any of you folks have any experience with one?
Ruger was alluding to making this blowback platform again in 44mag. With modern advancements, I bet the new Ruger 44 carbine will be a real peach. Fingers crossed.
Ruger was alluding to making this blowback platform again in 44mag. With modern advancements, I bet the new Ruger 44 carbine will be a real peach. Fingers crossed.
I had one 30 years ago and killed a pile of deer with it.
It was no target rifle but it was a stone killer at 50 yards
Ruger was alluding to making this blowback platform again in 44mag. With modern advancements, I bet the new Ruger 44 carbine will be a real peach. Fingers crossed.
To my knowledge Ruger has never made a blowback platform .44 magnum carbine. I have one of the old ones and it is gas operated. There is a difference. That is why it is suggested to only use jacketed ammo. Lead bullets can plug the gas port.
Mine shoots 2" groups at a 100 yards which is pretty darn good for a .44 mag carbine. It also functions flawlessly. I love that little gun for doing work on hogs.
I've had several friends that owned them. I have never heard of a cracked receiver on one. I do know that they had a problem with stocks cracking.
Ruger produced 2 versions of the 44 carbine semi-auto rifle - both were discontinued. Bill Ruger's first long rifle was the 44 carbine , a tube fed rifle that was introduced in the early 60's and even before the 10/22. My experience is with Gen 1 rifles having cracks in rear of receiver and in the trigger guard. This was due to excessive pressure from handloads or +P rds. This tube fed gun had lots of parts and was a PIA to clean if you didn't know what you were doing.
The Gen 2 was known as the 44 Deerfield carbine and introduced in the early 2000's. It only lasted a 1/2 dozen yrs as Ruger was sued by Ithaca for name infringement "Deerfield". I have zero experience with the newer rifles. pictures of both below
**My advice if you have a cracked recvr rifle .. do NOT send it back to Ruger as they will keep it and offer you a credit towards purchase of a new rifle priced at MSRP. I've had this happen to two people I know.
orig. tube fed
Gen 2 version with rotary magazine
Richard (OP) something to consider is the 77/357 or 77/44 bolt action rifles
To my knowledge Ruger has never made a blowback platform .44 magnum carbine. I have one of the old ones and it is gas operated. There is a difference. That is why it is suggested to only use jacketed ammo. Lead bullets can plug the gas port.
Thanks. I always thought that Ruger 44 was a blow back design like the 10/22.
I have owned several and still have one of the older ones. Have relatives that own several more and have never seen a cracked receiver or trigger guard but mostly stay away from +P ammo and most of the ones I know of shoot standard 44 Mag ammo. If you need more than standard 44 Mag ammo you might need a bigger gun. I have seen several where the stock broke or cracked.
The very first ones were the ones that Ithaca sued over were the first version which were built for years after the suite but the name changed to Ruger 44 Magnum. The first version was gas operated and gas system much like the little M1 Carbine.
The latest version from around 2000 time frame like the pic shows above uses a rotary mag and the action is more like the Mini actions just shorter and a few changes for the different shaped cartridge. One of the issues with it the scope mounts provided with them and design of the ejection port put the scope getting dinge by brass on every shot. Ruger even provided a pad to try and help protect your scope from the brass.
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