.41 Special

Revolver cartridge .41 Special United States Revolver 1963, late 1980s Rimmed, straight .410 .434 .434 .492 .060 1.165 1.465 Large pistol ~25,000 The .41 Special—also commonly known as .41 Spl (pronounced "forty-one special"), .41 Spc, or 10.4x29mmR (metric designation)—is a wildcat (non-standardized) cartridge designed for revolvers, made to be a less powerful variant of the established .41 Remington Magnum. The cartridge was intended for police work, security and personal defense, using a 200 grain bullet at 900 feet per second.John Taffin The Gun Digest Book of the .44 https://books.google.com/books?id=VDCkAoN1pBQC&pg=PA127 13 November 2006 Gun Digest Books 0-89689-416-9 127– While proposed as early as 1955, it remains a niche, custom cartridge. History In 1932, Colt researched a proposed ".41 Special" cartridge, but that shared only a name with the modern wildcat, having different measurements and even different bore diameter (.385). The concept of a .41 Special was later brought up by gunwriter Elmer Keith in his 1955 work Sixguns, where he proposed the .41 special as an analog to the .44 Special cartridge, but the idea did not gain ground. Keith and Bill Jordan later proposed the .41 Magnum cartridge, which was formally adopted by Remington Arms in 1964. Thus counter to common practice, a "magnum" offering was standardized before a weaker "special" variant was ever introduced. In the late 1980s pistolsmith Hamilton Bowen revived the idea of a 200gr bullet at 900fps in his custom designs.Pearce Lane Shooting Times Ready For The .41 Special? April 7, 2011 http://www.shootingtimes.com/ammo/ammunition_ready_for_the_41_special_040711/ Firearms While large-scale production firearms have not been produced for this niche chambering, custom gunsmiths have adapted existing firearms to use it, generally by machining a new cylinder and expanding the bore of existing .357 Magnum revolvers. Barnes Frank C. Cartridges of the World: A Complete Illustrated Reference for More Than 1,500 Cartridges Gun Digest Books 5 October 2012 978-1-4402-3059-2 227– https://books.google.com/books?id=bjhy8uv196IC&pg=PA227 Ammunition is not commercially produced, but boutique runs of brass for handloading, with proper .41 Special headstamps, have been issued. Among the first gunsmiths to make a purpose-built firearm for this chambering was Hamilton Bowen, who modified the .357 caliber Ruger Security-Six and GP100 revolvers to accommodate the .41 Special, as well as a Colt revolver and a S&W 586. Lee Jerry Gun Digest 2014 Krause Publications 12 August 2013 978-1-4402-3542-9 172– https://books.google.com/books?id=OoBq0qlNwcwC&pg=PA172 See also .38 Special .40 S&W .44 Special .41 Long Colt .41 Magnum 10 mm caliber List of rimmed cartridges List of handgun cartridges Table of handgun and rifle cartridges References External links Inventing the .41 Special. L. Neil Smith. Libertarian Enterprise, July 31, 2006 TAFFIN TESTS: THE .41 SPECIAL. John Taffin. Category:Pistol and rifle cartridges Category:Rimmed cartridges Category:Weapons and ammunition introduced in 1964 Category:Wildcat cartridges