I don't know if they ever made that particular conversion? I have a USFA .44spl / 44-40 combo gun, and even though a 44-40 bullet is .426, and a .44 cal bullet is .429, my revolver shoots either accurately.
I don't think it would be that hard to find donor .357 Ruger cylinder, and have it re-bored to 44/40.
Early 1980's Buckeye Sports got Ruger to make a special run of 44/40-.44mag and .32-20- .32 H&R convertible Blackhawks. They have a Buckeye blossom roll mark on the topstrap.
I bought one of the very 1st sets of the Buckeye convertibles. They first came out in 32-20 with 32 mag extra cylinder. Anyone who bought that first set got 1st dibs on the 2nd Buckeye conversion with matching serial numbers, that gun came out a year later, which was the 38-40 with a 10mm extra cylinder.
I had both unfired with matching serial numbers in the first 2 conversion sets they came out with. If I remember correctly there were 2500 made in each set of the blackhawk conversion models.
Later on Buckeye last marketed the 44mag/44-40 conversion gun. It was built on the Super Blackhawk frame. All were Contracted through Ruger to produce them for Buckeye.
Buckeye started the special run guns before Lipseys and Talo companies ever got in on doing it themselves as they do now days. All 3 conversion guns were made in the late 1980s around the time Ruger came out with the Super Redhawks and GP 100 models, and all the Buckeye conversion models had a Buckeye stamp, stamped into the top strap of each revolver. They were also built in the later 1980s around 1987, not the early 1980s.
Hope the info helps. My uncle was a stocking Ruger dealer back in the day when Ruger were 1st looking for dealers to carry thier guns to sell.
I have all three sets along with every other two cylinder Blackhawk ever made. I also have a couple of them that were ordered in matched pairs with consecutive serial numbers. My favorite one is a very special three cylinder in 45 colt 45 acp & 45 auto rim. Love my Blackhawks !!!
ive only owned two 4440s. One the wagon train special addition smith 5 in N frame that terry merbock conned me out of and the other wasnt even a whole gun. I bougth just the clylinder off one of the ruger convertables and dropped it into my 4 5/8s super on occasion. Sold that too. Just not something that tripped my trigger. Brass was hard to find and expensive and you couldnt use carbide dies.
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