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Went out today to kill some time at bass pro. Was parusing the handgun section and saw a .460 revolver!! What's next, 155mm? What a gun, but I could never justify the $1057.50 it cost.

DSARGE wrote:Went out today to kill some time at bass pro. Was parusing the handgun section and saw a .460 revolver!! What's next, 155mm? What a gun, but I could never justify the $1057.50 it cost.

S&W has a .500 too. The bullets are HUGE

txinvestigator wrote:

DSARGE wrote:Went out today to kill some time at bass pro. Was parusing the handgun section and saw a .460 revolver!! What's next, 155mm? What a gun, but I could never justify the $1057.50 it cost.

S&W has a .500 too. The bullets are HUGE

That ain't no handgun. This is a handgun. (600 Nitro Express)
http://mail.google.com/mail/?attid=0.1& ... 3e204c6133

txinvestigator wrote:

DSARGE wrote:Went out today to kill some time at bass pro. Was parusing the handgun section and saw a .460 revolver!! What's next, 155mm? What a gun, but I could never justify the $1057.50 it cost.

S&W has a .500 too. The bullets are HUGE

Fired one of my "friends'" S&W .50 a while back. It's the only time I have ever seen blood coming out of skin without a visible injury, no cut, just blood coming out of the web of my hand. (after 5 shots)

don't even want to think about the .600 or whatever.

Although I have fired a .75 caliber handgun, but being a blackpowder front stuffer it had considerably less recoil.

Well...After finally getting a chance to pop off a few out of my new Marlin...

I am ready for that Nitro .577

Needless to say I feel it may actually happen if the rumor is true about my Uncle...My Dad thinks he may actually have one of these in Dallas...

I'm feeling the need...Yep...

We were at the range one day down in Texas City and a couple of guys were there next to us on the pistol range with a snubby .460.

Suffice to say that after they lit off the first round I backed off the line and let 'em finish...

...Didn't take 'em too long to pack up and head home.

Speaking of the .460, S&W has a recall on some Performance Center models. Seems the barrels (from an outside supplier) aren't up to spec, and tend to disassemble unexpectedly.

Recall Notice

No limp wristing permitted on the 600 NE handgun. Watch the video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lzri8dn ... %20handgun

Wow

The .460 S&W is an awesome round. As the .357 Maximum is to the .357 Magnum is to the .38 Special, so is the .460 S&W to the .454 Casull to the .45 Long Colt.

It's a monster round.

Personally, as I don't live in Grizzly Country, and don't need the power to stop a charging bulldozer, I just hot-load .45 Long Colt to .44-Magnum levels in a Ruger Blackhawk. It might not stop charging bulldozers, but it'll do for Chevy small-blocks.

I've got a batch I'm working on loading now, actually, along with some "cowboy" .45 LC as well. The "barnburner" loads are from the Hornady manual: 250-grain jacketed hollowpoint at ~1300 fps from a 10" barrel. As my Blackhawk has a 5" barrel, I'm expecting ~1200 fps, and massive muzzle flash.
The heck of it is, that's not the maximum load, either... And the .454 Casull takes the same weight bullet over 300 fps faster, and the .460 faster still.

Disclaimer - do not fire "barnburner" loads in anything EXCEPT a Ruger or other, similarly strong, firearm. They will TEAR APART your old Colt SAA, possibly quite suddenly. At best, you'll shake everything loose, at worst, you'll touch off a grenade in your hand, complete with shrapnel.

I'm planning on using these "barnburners" as hunting loads, come fall. They oughta do quite well for close shots - under 50 yards - and drop game pretty well.

I'm perfectly happy with full-power .44 Magnum loads in either my Redhawk or my M29, I'm really not looking for more power in a pistol.

Recoil from my 340SC with full .357 loads is almost more "fun" than I can bear.

But pistols don't impress me any more . . . the local gun shop has a bunch of Class 3 stuff, and as of this past Saturday they had a gatling minigun (no price on it), an M2 HB for $30K . . .

For those interested in something more than the puny .50 BMG, they had an "Ohio Ordnance" semi-automatic 20mm cannon (!) for sale . . . to my inexperienced eye, it looked for all the world like a Solothurn.

No price sticker, but I suppose if you have to ask, you can't afford it.

CaptDave wrote:We were at the range one day down in Texas City and a couple of guys were there next to us on the pistol range with a snubby .460.

Suffice to say that after they lit off the first round I backed off the line and let 'em finish...

...Didn't take 'em too long to pack up and head home.

A while back three guys in Texas City went together and bought a 4" 500 S&W with two boxes (40 rounds) of ammo from the Smith custom shop.

The pistol was for sale one week later at T's for a hundred bucks less than what they paid and it came with 37 rounds of ammo for free From what I was told....they had enough.
Jason

jbirds1210 wrote: A while back three guys in Texas City went together and bought a 4" 500 S&W with two boxes (40 rounds) of ammo from the Smith custom shop.

The pistol was for sale one week later at T's for a hundred bucks less than what they paid and it came with 37 rounds of ammo for free From what I was told....they had enough.
Jason

Seems almost a shame to do that. The .500 Magnum is an excellent hand-loading proposition, due to the cost of the ammo. If you're handloading anyway, why not just download to .44 Magnum velocities and save your hands some pain? You won't notice any difference in the efficacy of the revolver on deer-sized game, and you'll still have the option of the "full-house" .500 loads for grizzly and moose.

I just can't see spending that much on a specialty handgun and then not giving it a chance.

Even without handloading.

CorBon quickly came out with a couple of .500 Special loadings.

Still impressive with a 350gr JHP at 1250fps / 1215ftlbs or a 350gr FMJ at 1100fps / 941ft lbs.

I don't think I would even attempt to shoot a 600 ,
not with my 150 lbs.

A few rounds a year in .454 out of 7 1/2" SRH are about all the "fun" I can stand, so no desire here for a bigger master blaster.

In fact, my $300 2-7X Burris scope that was supposed to be designed to handle the recoil of such hand cannons evidently also thought some 300 grain factory Hornady loads at 1650 fps were a little too stiff too. It's back at the factory now for repairs under their "Forever Warranty". Since my right wrist did not come with that one, I'll likely re-zero with some hot .45LC "sisssy loads".