My “Mountain Gun”

[Scott Tschirhart]

Smith & Wesson made some great guns on the “mountain gun” theme.

I have owned several and still have a .357 version.

But this is more my idea of a Mountain Gun!

Light weight and as handy as pointing your finger.

3 digit serial number .44 Magnum Blackhawk.

[yooper2]

I have a 44 mag Smith Mountain Gun, its my dedicated truck gun. Very practical and capable sixgun. That said, I would love a Flattop 44 Mag, really prefer single actions for everyday carry in the field. Somehow I've never crossed paths with one at the right price or right time. I really need to do something about that. A New Model mid frame flattop in 45 Colt full that role right now.
I got to handle a 3 screw 44 mag flattop which Alan Harton converted to 45 Colt, oh my what a dream of a sixgun that was!

Eric

[junkbug]

That is a beautiful working collectible Scott. Do you need to limit the amount of full power 44 mag loads you shoot out of it, like a S&W Model 19?

[Lastmohecken]

Yes, I like your flattop gun, fluted cylinder, and alloy grip frame, perfect packing pistol.
One reason, I recently purchased a 45colt/ACP New Model Blackhawk. Once again fluted cylinder, allow grip frame and big holes in the wheel. I tried the Smith Mountain Gun, but I found that it beat me up too much and prefer either the regular model 29-2 with a 4 inch barrel, which I own, now, or a 4-5/8 single action.

[samsi]

That truly is a Perfect Packin' Pistol. Mines a 6 1/2" but I'm always struck by how much lighter it seems than a Super Blackhawk.

[Scott Tschirhart]

That is a beautiful working collectible Scott. Do you need to limit the amount of full power 44 mag loads you shoot out of it, like a S&W Model 19?

I don’t think you need to baby this gun. Your wrists will give out long before the gun does.

[Woodsloafer2]

Have not been on in quite a while. Nice to be back reading and learning again. Been very busy lately. Currently building the better half a posy and beam potting shed. I have a 4 5/8's 44 flattop just like your's Scott. Currently on loan to a friend. He shoots it better than me. With it away visiting I now carry a Ruger Blackhawk Bowen 41 mag with a 4 inch barrel. Built on a 357 frame.

[fordwannabe]

Just yesterday I picked up my New model flat top in 44 special. It's definately not as cool as yours but it beats lots of other choices in my never to be humble opinion.

[samsi]

Just yesterday I picked up my New model flat top in 44 special. It's definately not as cool as yours but it beats lots of other choices in my never to be humble opinion.

Ain't no flies on those 44 Specials.

[Scott Tschirhart]

Just yesterday I picked up my New model flat top in 44 special. It's definately not as cool as yours but it beats lots of other choices in my never to be humble opinion.

I really like those guns. I have one with a 7 1/2 inch barrel that was a limited run for the Shootists. I’m fairly sure that it thinks that it is a rifle.

[fordwannabe]

It appears new in the box from 2014. 5.5 inch barrel, I already replaced the hammer with a super Blackhawk one. It needs a trip to the gunsmiff for some trigger work. I can do it but he charges $35 and it's great when he is done sooooo. I need a belt mountain pin and a set of elk anter grips then it will be done. It shoots Skeeter loads as well as I can hold it so... $599. well spent.

[GunnyMack]

I guess my Single Six 44 special is not technically a mountain gun as I always referred to it as my fishin gun.
So I guess my mountain gun would be my BH 41 mag with 4⁵/⁸, brass grip frame and cocobolo panels.

[Lastmohecken]

Just yesterday I picked up my New model flat top in 44 special. It's definately not as cool as yours but it beats lots of other choices in my never to be humble opinion.

I have a .357 Old Model 3 screw with a 4-5/8" barrel, and like so many have done in the past, I have considered having it converted to 44 Special. And I might still do it.

[Scott Tschirhart]

I have a couple of .357 Flattops but I don’t think I want to change anything about them. They are just good using guns.

I’m sure that this .44 had the barrel chopped but it sure looks like whoever did it tried to make it look factory.

[Lastmohecken]

The thing I like about the 44 or 45 is that on the smaller old model frame it makes up into a lighter gun for packing, that is if you stay with the alloy grip frame, as opposed to the .357 mag. And the 44/45 is easier on the ear's when you need to shoot it spur of the moment without the benefit of hearing protection.

[Lastmohecken]

I have a couple of .357 Flattops but I don’t think I want to change anything about them. They are just good using guns.

I’m sure that this .44 had the barrel chopped but it sure looks like whoever did it tried to make it look factory.

That 44 looks great! I had a Bisley 44 mag chopped off, back when they first came out and at time, they were only available in the long barrel, over 30 years ago. The only bad thing was the writing on the barrel, "read the safety manual, etc." I think I had to cut a word off or a few letters, anyway. And the re-crowning made it obvious on that gun. But it did turn out to be a great shooter.

[AJMD429]

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My first centerfire handgun was a Ruger Super Blackhawk 44 Mag, and of course my high-school buddy Jonathon had to one-up me in his poetically 'cowboy' way by getting a Ruger Blackhawk in 45 Colt, and pretty much shooting anything I could shoot, hitingt it just as well, and making sure it would be just as dead.

Neither gun required any sort of 'light' loading.

I shot handloads that duplicated ballistics of the Winchester 'white box' 240 grain JSP, but Jonathon was probably shooting stuff more appropriately fed into a 454 Casull... Many thousands of rounds later (when we were turning 50), we still had both those revolvers we'd bought when in high school, and neither had loosened - they both just had a ton of 'holster wear'.

[piller]

Where I live, there is not any wildlife. I live in the city. It would be nice to carry a good revolver, but probably not needed. When I go into Dallas, I am armed. Dallas has areas where even from the Interstate or the Highway, you can feel the evil. Down by Waxahachie, it is still pretty tame. When out fishing by the Creek at night, I carry a stainless .357 because of the one pack of hogs that occasionally comes around.

[Bill in Oregon]

Wonderfully useful sixgun Scott. And I for one love it when the blue begins to turn to plum.