That must've hurt

[Greybeard]

Yep, the 460 is a beast. Just because it weighs as much as some rifles, don't mean you can hold it like one!

[slowpoke]

My nephew fired my S&W 500 like that and busted both lips, and every pore on his left hand wept a spec of blood.
Its a fairly hot load . 43 grains h 110 :

[jimlongley]

A bunch of time ago a friend had a revolver which had been a little abused by a previous owner and it was seriously out of time. We took it out and tested it by putting butcher paper around it and checking the pattern of lead spatter from each chamber of the cylinder. Even with the extreme shaving that was going on there was never enough power in the ejected lead or gas to cut off a digit.

And what caliber was that? If it was "a bunch of time ago", there were no revolvers chambered in anything even approaching .460 S& W Magnum.

At 2900 ft-lbs of muzzle energy, I can absolutely believe there is enough energy escaping the gap to do serious damage to a digit.

.357 Magnum and it shaved and spattered copiously.

[KBCraig]

A bunch of time ago a friend had a revolver which had been a little abused by a previous owner and it was seriously out of time. We took it out and tested it by putting butcher paper around it and checking the pattern of lead spatter from each chamber of the cylinder. Even with the extreme shaving that was going on there was never enough power in the ejected lead or gas to cut off a digit.

And what caliber was that? If it was "a bunch of time ago", there were no revolvers chambered in anything even approaching .460 S& W Magnum.

At 2900 ft-lbs of muzzle energy, I can absolutely believe there is enough energy escaping the gap to do serious damage to a digit.

.357 Magnum and it shaved and spattered copiously.

Okay, it was badly out of time, and shaved a lot of lead. But factory loadings in lead-bullet .357 Magnum (in the "a bunch of years ago" time frame) produced less than 500 ft.-lbs of muzzle energy. Maybe 550, tops. JHP loadings were hotter, but not lead.

Give it the benefit of the doubt, make it the hottest load available, and it was still only 20% (or less) of the energy produced by a .460 S&W Magnum.