So he should let the tree fall on him?
Although I didn’t panic I must say that the first time I ever fired a weapon (Ft Knox,1969) was a very spooky experience.
...wasn’t much of a tree. Sapling, at best.
Don’t blame him for running, though.
I can personally attest to the fact that shooting an S&W 500 at a ripened watermelon that’s sitting about 10 yards downrange creates a fine watermelon salad.
Captured it on 10X slow-motion video - pieces of watermelon were raining down for quite a few seconds afterwards (at slowed-down playback speed, anyway).
As for thin trees acting as target backstops, well I’ll leave that to others...
Scary!
I don’t like an exited person with a loaded gun running around like an idiot.
I would like to have an S&W .50 cal. but I can think of few real uses for it.
If I had one, I would download it to a bit more power than a .44 mag. A model 29 or Ruger Super Blackhawk in .44 mag do not bother me but I really don’t want much more recoil.
It would make a good pickup truck gun, again with milder but still powerful hand loads.
I think he did great, no panic there, just moving fast to avoid the 20’ tree he shot down.
That pistol has a similar muzzle energy to a 30-06.
If you have ever gotten your hand slammed in a car door, that’s what it feels like to fire one of those.
Anyone know how the S&W 500 compares to the .454 Casull? I have a Casull with a 6” barrel and was just wondering.
That’s rather disconcerting that the first handgun you give someone to shoot is on of the most powerful in the world.
At age 6 or 7, I sat in my Dad’s lap and steadied his scoped Winchester model 70 (pre-’63) 30-06 forestock on his leg, and managed, first shot, to hit a stick my little brother had jammed into the dirt on the other side of a fair-sized pond.
He “panicked”? What a girly man.
That might have been Laz and a Desert Eagle.