Greeting from the other coast, Maine.

JiminMaine · Aug 10, 2023

I am trying to find information on a revolver I recently picked up. It is a Interarms Virginian Dragoon Silhouette Stainless 10.5" in 41 Mag. I can find a lot of info. on the 44 Mags. but I can't find anything on the 41 Mags. Does anybody have a clue about these?

ma96782 · Aug 10, 2023

Aloha, Mark

Xaevian · Aug 10, 2023

Welcome!

MTpockets · Aug 10, 2023

Probably all you would want to know....

https://www.singleactions.com/VADragoons.pdf

JiminMaine · Aug 10, 2023

MTpockets said:
Probably all you would want to know....

https://www.singleactions.com/VADragoons.pdf

Thanks, I've read that. I am hoping someone might have more info on the the 41 Mags specifically. They seem to be few and far between. I've looked at a couple of the Interarms catalogs and the Silhouette version in 41 mag was only listed in 1983 and production of the Dragoons ended in 1984.

MTpockets said:
From Lee Martin's paper, "
The majority of the Dragoons I see are in .44 Magnum, with the .45 Colt being the
next most common. .357 Magnums do exist, but they're pretty rare, and the .41
Magnum is a mystery. Early on, Interarms catalogued the .357 and .41
Magnums, but it wasn't until the 1980s that they became a reality. Eventually,
they did churn out some .357s, but the .41s are a point of great debate. Some say
that short of prototypes, they were never offered to the public. Others allege that
a thousand or so .41s were produced from around 1981 to 1984. I have recently
been in touch with a couple of individuals who have blued .41s, so they do exist,
but are quite rare. In fact, in all my years of collecting single-actions, I've never
seen a .41 Magnum Dragoon.

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