Muddy, It is a smaller one in nothern Maine,though I use KTP alot. Do you?
I stopped there last fall on a visit to your beautiful state. I really liked that country. Kittery's is about the neatest store I think I have ever been into. I wondered because they too had a 4 5/8 41 mag that was still on their web site for quite a while. If not for the out of state thing, it would have come home with my buddy.
We hunted with another big 41 mag fan. Wayne Boscowitz! I read of his use of the 41 many years ago and it is what prompted us to hunt with him. We talked a little bit about that caliber and that gun. He said that he had been using a Colt Python and noticed too many times when he walked up to bears he had shot after being treed with dogs, that the bear still wanted to bite and scratch him. He went to a local hardware store to get a 44 mag, and they were "scarce as hen's teeth" but they had a 41 Ruger so he got that instead. Wayne said "I don't know about the ballistics and all..I just know that when I shoot a bear with a 41 mag he just falls DEAD". The only load he has ever used is the Remington factory JSP. I have duplicated that load with my handloads, but really like the Speer Deep Curl. It worked well on a white tail this past fall.
Good luck with the 41. I think you made a great choice not letting it get away.
Dan