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[x1stcav]

I gots to know!

[LibKill]

Not the first article I've seen on this beast, but a good one.

Sure wish I could afford one.

[Jeff Gordon]

This my Top Gun. The photo is actual size. It fits nicely inside a box of 100mm cigarettes.

It is the North American Arms Mini Revolver. It packs all the punch of a 10 year old girl. :-)

[Pagey]

There are also some serious pictures you can click on larger here :

http://www.gunblast.com/SW_500.htm


That end of that barrel is awesome!

[Myrddin]

I'm still waiting for my Hunter magnum model to arrive at my FFL. I did some quick calculations of felt recoil for two of the Corbon loads. The 275 gr load will produce a felt recoil energy of 23 ft-lbs in the 82 oz Hunter. This is similar to firing a 240 gr PMC .44 Mag cartridge in a Model 629 with 4" barrel. No problem...even single handed. The Ruger .454 Casull in 7.5" barrel produces 38 ft-lbs when firing a 300 gr Hornady load at 1500 fps. That's 1500 ft-lbs of muzzle energy. The Corbon 400 gr load produces 48 ft-lbs of felt recoil in the Hunter. That is a lot harder slap in the hand than the Hornady round in the Ruger .454 Casull. When I first shot that round in the .454, my palms felt like they had been smacked with a baseball bat. They were stinging. The Hunter with the 400 gr round is going to be a real experience.

[mercy]

If God wanted me to fire a .50 cal handgun using a cartridge delivering 2600 ft lbs he would have put my shoulder where my hand is.

I traded away my Desert Eagle 44 mag for just this reason. I'm sure I did permanent damage.

[mrmeyer]

It'll be a cold day in hell when I buy S&W.

[yarddog]

I saw one at a local dealers about two weeks ago.

It is nice looking but picking it up it struck me as being too heavy for practicality. Not that I wouldn't want one tho.

If I did have it I probably would buy one box of heavy loads and never completely use it up. I would either load a bunch of sub power loads or buy the same.

The dealer "poor boys" in Defuniak Springs said they had sold a bunch which surprised me considering the price.

[rllngrk33]

I saw this gun at a gun show in Baltimore this past weekend. It is a monster gun and weighs over 4 pounds. You need a firm grip just to hold it on target. I can't imagine trying to shoot it with just one hand.

At about $1000, I won't be getting one anytime soon unless Santa leaves it under my tree.

[Oatka]

I wrote New England Firearms, makers of those cheap-but-accurate break-top single shot rifles, asking them to come out with a carbine in this caliber.

I haven't heard back from them yet.

Saw a box of 20 for $32.99 at a recent gun show in Utah. If that's the norm, this gun ain't agoin' anywhere. One salvation might be reloading with cast bullets, though.

[paul51]

I'm going to have to make a modification to my xmas list

[LibWhacker]

Oh, man . . . I want to fire it . . . With some hot loads in it . . . Just to see if I really need one. ;-)

(More wrist curls! That's what I've got to do, more wrist curls!)

[VeniVidiVici]

I love my 500!!

I have a 3" and 4" .44Magnum and even the 275gr .50 recoils more than either one.

But it is not a violent recoil. More of hard thud, pushing your palm back.

Let's put it this way; my 16yo son who weighs probably 135 soaking wet fires my 500 with 275gr. And HE thinks it's a blast!

Now the 440gr hits pretty hard. But the gun is just so awesome to shoot that one tends not to think about it too much. And it's very, very accurate. Keep the flinching down and you're there :-)

I don't really hunt (hope to change that soon), but have killed off a few watermelons with it. They pretty much explode. Quite funny to see!

[ChefKeith]

Check this out

[Squantos]

Since S&W doesn't make single action revolvers ?!?!?!? Well damn....just damn..........:o)

Stay Safe !

[Centurion2000]

I'll stick with my 454's from Ruger ... nice powerful and packable.

Even more packable when you cut the barrel to 2.75" ;)

[miloklancy]

Ah, give me the Springfield 1911 anyday.

[tracer]

Covet, covet, covet.

Brings to mind a line fro "A Christas Story: "You'll put your eye out with that thing"....

[DoctorMichael]

Hmmmmmm.............Maybe THIS is what I'll be carrying next summer on my yearly trip into the wilds of Montana. My .357 this year was DEFINITELY not enough gun for griz.