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newfrontier45 · July 7, 2013, 11:09 AM

As far as I'm concerned it's all just uneducated guessing. No doubt influenced by Ruger's marketing and the ubiquitous "Rugers are built like a tank" nonsense. There is too little information present and too little expertise to analyze it. If the exact same rifle, made of the same alloys and with the same heat treatment was also available in the .454 or .480Ruger, I'd say yes, the 77/44 is stronger than the Marlin.

Either way, there is no reason for it at all. Even if you use the available 50,000psi data (Redhawk/FA), you're not going to gain 400fps and make it a 200yd gun. You can't load the long nose heavyweight cast bullets in the magazine, so what difference does it make?

July 7, 2013, 11:09 AM	#38
newfrontier45 Junior member Join Date: February 23, 2012 Posts: 921	As far as I'm concerned it's all just uneducated guessing. No doubt influenced by Ruger's marketing and the ubiquitous "Rugers are built like a tank" nonsense. There is too little information present and too little expertise to analyze it. If the exact same rifle, made of the same alloys and with the same heat treatment was also available in the .454 or .480Ruger, I'd say yes, the 77/44 is stronger than the Marlin. Either way, there is no reason for it at all. Even if you use the available 50,000psi data (Redhawk/FA), you're not going to gain 400fps and make it a 200yd gun. You can't load the long nose heavyweight cast bullets in the magazine, so what difference does it make?