This is yer mellon on some S&W 500.
Shooting one of those are not on my bucket list, at a minimum keep your wrists straight.
Could have (should have?) blown his head off.
One day, out driving in the desert, I found 6 empty 500 S&W brass by the side of the road next to a bush.
Having pack rat and crow genes (from Depression Era parents) I stopped to pick up the shiny things.
Then noticed the empty 6-pack of beer cans under the same bush.
Some time later there was “Like New” S&W for sale in the local gun shop?? Don’t know, could be??
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I saw one in a local pawn shop. It appeared like new and was priced at $700 which I suppose was a good price tho I could not afford it anyway.
I would like to have it but since I no longer reload, I would not want to fire factory loads unless there are reduced ones available.
It seems the safest way to fire that round is in a single action revolver.
No risk of double tap.
I like guns, but the S&W 500 is not on my list of potential purchases. If my .45 Auto 1911 and my .45 Long Colt revolver are not gun enough, I should be using a rifle or shotgun.
It takes two hands to handle the Whopper!
This is yer mellon on some S&W 500.
I’ve seen the same thing happen at ranges on a number of occasions.
Heavy caliber, double action revolver and a limp wrist holding it. “Pop Pop” fast, followed by lots of loud voices, the clatter of the gun hitting the ground and sometimes blood where the front sight tried to bury itself in someone’s forehead.
Newbies have no business handling a firearm with significant recoil.
At the range one day half the line stopped to watch (after first shot) as a kid who wasn’t any more than 10 put a whole cylinder from a .500 into the paper. I was duly impressed, that kid is probably not going to be someone a bad guy is going to want to get into a gunfight with when he’s 25...
Keep two hands, a back brace and a jock strap on whilst firing the S&W 500. this is what the term “hand cannon” was invented for.
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