I have been looking for a Super Redhawk in .44 mag for about 6 months. Walked into to my local gun shop and had one sitting there. I walked out with a lighter wallet, but a happy camper! I get to pick it up after the 72 hour waiting period on Saturday!
Congrats, I have the Super Redhawk in .454 Casull and it is easily my favorite revolver, brute strong, looks good, and has been exceptionally accurate with my handloads.
__________________
NRA Life Member
God Bless the United States Military
anybody have advice on optics for this or should I be a man and stick to the iron sights?
How good are your eyes? If they're like mine, you can use all the help you can get . Even a red dot scope would work well. How far are you planning on shooting is a better question.
You know the easiest way to tell? Go to a range and try it. Set up a deer sized target and shoot it like you would out in the field. If you can consistently hit the vitals with the iron sights, keep using them. Otherwise, get a scope. A man's got to know his limitations.
Great gun. You will like it alot. I agree with the post above. Try it out at the range and see. The one advantage a scope will give you is at dawn/dusk shooting. Which ever brand you go with make sure it can handle the recoil.
I did get the rings with it. I like how the whole system works. I'm not a big fan of some of the ugly revolvers out there with mounting rails on the barrel.
I have a regular Redhawk, stainless, .44 mag, 7 1/2" barrel, Leupold 2x scope on it, Pachmayr Decelerator grips. Sitting down, back against a tree, I can get a cluster about the size of the palm of my hand at 50 yards. Using the bench, same range, I can reduce that to about 2".
Your gun is heavier than mine to begin with, but I am sure the scope brings mine up to or over the weight of yours. I find the recoil nothing huge with the handloads I would hunt with, but I'm sure the scope helps. As far as seeing the target and sighting, the scope is a huge help. Then again, my eyes are 63 years old, need bifocals, and have had glasses in front of them for the past 53 years.
For hunting, unless you anticipate doing the quick draw thing on a deer, I think the scope option is going to be the most humane way to hunt. That's scope, not the current craze of a red dot. A scope will give you a finer point of aim. The red dot has the advantage of essentially eliminating the parallax problem, but the dots I've seen are pretty big. Stay with a low power scope and mostly it will put the target and the crosshairs on the same visual plane. Without it, in low light especially, you'll probably tend to hold more of the front sight in the rear than you should, shooting a little high.
Temper all that advice with the knowledge that the guy who is giving it has taken a groundhog with a scoped .357 revolver at 135 yards, and is not impressed with the red dot optics that seem all the current rage.
__________________ Teach
Taxpayers voting for Obama are like chickens voting for Colonel Sanders.
Beautiful gun!! I recently purchased a Bisley Hunter in .44. You might want to look at a red dot scope. Frankly, the working range of a .44 is 75, maybe 100yrds. A 1X scope (for me anyway) works just great, and a red dot usually adds only 5 or 6 ounces. I have 2 1.5 to 4X handgun scopes, and their weight makes the gun not feel as balanced. Anyway, that's my $.02!!
My scope is a straight 2x. I'm used to the heft of a scoped revolver, but yes, it absolutely makes it less handy to swing the thing around if need be. It changes the balance toward the muzzle and makes it feel a little top heavy compared to the unscoped gun. Still, with my eyes, I owe it to the game to have the scope on there.
I just had mine out the other day, tightening the scope mount screws, getting the sights fine tuned to put my deer loads about an inch and half high at 50 yards, and confirming that I need to do some more shooting before hunting season gets here.
__________________ Teach
Taxpayers voting for Obama are like chickens voting for Colonel Sanders.
Teach
. Even a red dot scope would work well. How far are you planning on shooting is a better question.
