This simple test displays the devastating power of the S&W 500. The Smith & Wesson 500 is well known as one of the most powerful handguns on teh planet! These 500-grain bullets can bring down pretty much any animal on earth. Posted on 11/28/2016 12:01:52 PM PST by w1n1
This simple test displays the devastating power of the S&W 500. The Smith & Wesson 500 is well known as one of the most powerful handguns on teh planet! These 500-grain bullets can bring down pretty much any animal on earth.
The guys from GY6vids Youtube put together this short video in which he puts one of these gigantic pistols up against a couple of pork shoulders. The results are about what you may expect!
This is a simple test, but an effective one. The huge holes and ridiculous penetration of this round should stop just about anything on earth. Talk about some devastating power! It's little wonder this handgun has such a reputation and is so popular with the world's most serious handgun hunters. What are you carrying as a backup against bear? See the full footage here.
Look like the dude’s forehead took a ricochet at some point.
ouch ,he should be wearing gloves
An interesting gun but I see very little practical use for it.
Still I would like to have one. Actually I would rather have the .460 which could take a bunch of different loads.
I used to shoot the .44 mag and .41 mag a fair amount. Neither bothered me but they were as much recoil as I wanted. Now that I have arthritis in my fingers, even the .44 mag would probably be a handful.
The big .50 might make a good round for a single shot rifle.
I expect the Smith and Wesson to be tough and inedible. The pork shoulder if cooked right and coated with barbecue sauce in the last 30 minutes will make incredible sandwiches, nachos or is good just as a stand alone main course.
Do I have to choose?
Dropping the hammer on one of these rounds felt like getting swatted in the palm of the hand with a billy club.
NEF made a Handi-Rifle in .500 Smith for a while. I’m not sure if it’s still available, but it was a winner. Like a .45-70, but more so.
It would be great if S&W used the X-frames to do what they did with the N-frame and add more rounds of conventional ammo using the space the larger cylinder provides.
Smith squeezes eight .357/.38 rounds into an N-frame. I wonder how many they could get into a X? 10? And then there is the .22... seems like you could have a dozen or more of those in the big X-frame. Even 8 rounds of .44 Mag would be excellent.
I shot one, also. I only fired two rounds before I handed it back to my brother-in-law. He was buying the ammo at about $2.00 per round, but still, $4.00 worth was all I needed.
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I had one in .357 maximum. I bought a fifty round box of brass at the same time. I loaded them down a bit but it was still really powerful.
Daddy got a chain saw wedged in an oak. I used the handi rifle to shoot the limb in two. It was a good 8 inches in diameter.
One of those I really wish I had kept.
Here is a video of a guy that went bear hunting with a S&W 500:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8mqAYAxrlg
At the 13 minute mark is when he shoots. Seems powerful enough to me !
.50cal to the head and the shooter walks. One in a million:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ShV7cii0aY
Don’t get your thumb up where the cylinder meets the barrel.
Looks fun for someone else to shoot.
My son's deer rifle of choice is a Rossi carbine in .357 Magnum. The extra barrel length turns the Magnum caliber into a whole different animal; think 500 fps additional velocity over the book ratings.
I am a big handgun fan but that is way too much gun for me.
That kind of fire power should also have a longer barrel and a compensator to help control the muzzle climb.
That guy is a big well-muscled dude and he has trouble controlling that revolver. It has maybe a four inch barrel at most just from the picture. I would have no less that an eight inch barrel for that kind of round.
Of course having an eight inch barrel on such a large revolver would make it far too heavy for a backup carry side arm on a hunting trip.
A .44 magnum is about a big a pistol round that I would consider practical for carry. Anything larger I would consider an impractical collectors curiosity.
For rifles you have a lot more choices.
That’s the video I was thinking of!
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