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Here's a Ruger Super Blackhawk, in .44 Magnum, and this one can be fed particularly powerful loads.
It also has grips which features the Japanese painting "The Great Wave off Kanagawa", which I think is quite nice.
I quite like Ruger's Blackhawk line of revolvers, compared to the original Colt 1873, it has a lot of advantages, such as far better sights, and with all but the older variants, it has a transfer-bar safety and separate firing-pin, the hammer being unable to strike and transfer energy to the firing-pin unless the trigger is pulled, which raises the the transfer-bar.
The transfer-bar safety thus ensures that if the hammer is struck and somehow slips off the sear (say the gun is dropped on its hammer against the ground), the hammer may drop, but as it doesn't contact the firing-pin, it will not fire.
This makes it safe to carry this revolver with all chambers loaded, as opposed to the classic Single Action Army, which has no such safety feature, and which easily would fire if the hammer was struck and slipped off the sear, thus commong practice with those guns were to leave one chamber empty, resting the hammer on that.
The Colt 1873 SAA for that matter, even with better modern metallurgy, is not quite strong enough in its original design for souping up already powerful cartridges like .44 Magnum (or for chambering in really powerful ones like .454 Casull), the cylinder walls are slightly thin, the lockup isn't quite strong enough, etc.
Though I find the Blackhawk overall much more practical than the 1873, this doesn't mean I hate it.
