Standard .50 AE (Desert Eagle) 300gr. bullet has a muzzle velocity of 450 m/s from a 6 inch barrel. Mind you however, a Desert Eagle also utillizes a lot of the recoil energy to cycle the action of the gun, thus mitigating some of it. Overall resulting in 1,965 J of energy.
Similar projectile weight of a .500 S&W moves at around 632 m/s. Mind you that the .500 S&W has a cylinder gap between the revolving drum and the barrel, so some of the propellant gas manages to escape. And the muzzle energy is still 3,888 J. While it has no moving parts that help to mitigate it
tl;dr: It has double if not more recoil than a Desert Eagle.
Shot one a week ago, a .50 that is, wasn't nearly as bad as I thought it would be. I love the shockwave or whatever it produces, courses through your body and feels great.
Having shot both, the desert eagle in .50 is about the same as a .44 magnum out of a revolver in terms of recoil. Very easily managed honestly. The fireball and the boom however, is quite the show. The .500 magnum out of a 7" (or was it an 8"?) barrel with a muzzle brake is like a little less than twice that recoil. Not wrist breaking but its quite the thump
He didnt even come close to limp wristing it. Get out and shoot one, then come back and say he limp wristed it. Out of a 4" barrel, that recoil is stout. One handed is doable. But you have a lot of muzzle flip to overcome. The muzzle is going to climb up some no matter what you do, but had he limp wristed it, his wrist would have violently went upward, twisted around and he more than likely would have dropped the gun from the force.
Well, he gains replies and attention.
The first step is no thumbs.
The next would be absolutely zero attention or replies. And that will be very very hard for funnyjunk.
But its very hard to keep people from thumbing him down. Like seriously, its like if people don't even read the username when someone comments, no matter how obvious they are trolling.
Ok semi related story to this picture. This one time a few years back i was playing a match on Modern Warfare 2 (yeah i know but this was when the franchise was still good) online and I was using some kind of automatic sniper rifle M14 i think. I was on a roll gunning everyone down and getting kill streaks. So anyways I start shooting at this one guy and only manage to him him once before he quickly ran inside a building to take cover. I had an idea of where he was hiding though. It was in a small corner room that players usually hid in to heal or camp. So I aim while outside to the wall he went behind and I estimated and basically guessed where might be. My crosshairs are at head height and I fire. "Headshot" immediately appears on the screen. It was a total skill and luck. He could've been anywhere behind there. I could've been like 5 feet or 5 in off or he could've been in a different spot altogether. It was basically a blind shot. It was awesome I felt immortal and the fact there was also a kill cam after you died to show who killed you and how made it even better. He saw me get a head shot on him through a goddamn wall and then he knew to fear me. One of my best gaming moments ever.
plus, buying bullets is honestly more likely to have the opposite effect on your life expectancy compared to smokes, assuming everyone dies in a gun fight
That's the way my family plays it; every time we go to the grocery store, we grab a box of bullets. Since we don't go shooting too often, and if we go to the store twice a week, by the end of six months we've got a-plenty of amoonition.
Ik that feeling. My favorite firearm is my nugget and I'll be lucky if I can shoot it twice a year at best, just because I never really have time to go out and shoot.
Maybe a .50 BMG is, but the OP is a .500 S&W which is for "hunting" (yeah, right), and would not be capable of piercing anything considered "bulletproof."
funnyhard's picture looks like a 1911, which probably shoots .45 and would definitely not blow up a tank.
Okayyy sorry. I was meant to be replying to >>#70, in which he said that the gun in the picture was used for disabling vehicles and light equipment. Which is not true, it's a hunting weapon. I really did not mean for this to be such a huge debate
Yeah, he seems to be under the impression that .500 S&W is an anti-materiel cartridge and is insanely ignorant yet somehow still narcissistic about his knowledge of firearms
No, I'm saying the .500 S&W in the picture wouldn't be capable of disabling vehicles and light equipment, you're thinking of a .50 BMG, which is a high velocity rifle round and would blow that revolver to pieces. And the gun in funnyhard's picture shoots a round even smaller than the .500 S&W in the original picture. None of them are tankbusters, and only the .50 BMG is even meant to be used on vehicles.
The .500 S&W was released as a hunting round, but is really just a collector's item for men who feel the need to overcompensate. It has to be one of the least practical weapons on the planet, considering the price of a round and the relatively minor performance gains over a .44 magnum compared to the humongous difference in recoil and shootability.
not a hunting round?! what you gonna reach for your trusty 9MM when a 400 pound black bear is coming toward you? get the **** out of here. With how nervous and how much adrenaline runs through you, you only have one shot to make it count
You sort of said it yourself - with so much adrenaline running through, you're going to grab some behemoth of a gun that's difficult to aim, difficult to shoot, and not particularly reliable? You can take that black bear down with a .44 magnum just as easily, and you're much more likely to hit your target, plus you won't be dropping a few dollars per round at the range getting practice.
the gun is surprisingly easy to aim for the shot that counts, the barrel is heavy enough that you can easily stabilize it straight in front of you. Also it is not difficult to shoot, the double/single action trigger is impressive for the size. Lastly the only comparison in reliability would be a glock, revolvers have forever been more reliable that most
I don't know, I think it's just goofy. I mean, look at the picture. That gun on the bottom is the .44 magnum model from Dirty Harry. That .500 S&W is just laughably huge - I could never imagine carrying it around as a backup weapon while hunting or hiking. Maybe if you're some sort of serious pistol-hunting enthusiast then you see it differently, but I just can't imagine any practical reason to carry that thing around. I've never heard of a .44 magnum having problems taking down a black bear.
Have you seen what a 12.7 does to a person?
That is not a hunting round.
it's a shoot at one guy and the bullet goes through all the mud huts then into the side of a hill and bounce on type round.
a weapon above 11mm is just a "Hey look at my gun, not my penis" type gun
That cartridge has less power than the 7.62x54mmR I've used to kill elk, which is comparable to 30-06. Caliber is only one part of the energy a given cartridge has. Learn to ballistics, faggot.
When Trump is elected, he claimed he would get rid of restrictions on weapons.
So I am going to buy a mortar and nerve gas shells.
I want you to stand down wind of me
I never said that.
The three Americans the five Guatemalans the two Hondurans 9 Russians and 11 Colombians and two Iraqis were dead wrong probably allot more due to using a 50cal for suppressing fire
Being able to shoot does not mean you know about ballistics, mechanical theory or the merits of various designs and calibers. Ex-military or active, doesn't really matter which people tend to know very little about the firearms they used because they're only taught which cartridges the weapons use and how to maintain said weapons.
So you are admitting ignorance. That's not a bad thing, denying that you are ignorant is. Nobody knows everything. I, however, know a great deal about firearms because I have spent 90% of my life learning.
Actually the 7.62x54r is only a little more powerful than the 500 mag. 500 mag runs around 2300ft/lbs and the 54r runs around 2500 (roughly, those numbers can vary wildly based on the load)
But to your point yes the 500 mag is still not as powerful as a high powered hunting rifle
Handgun hunting is pretty popular in america now, and a. 500 mag is good for elk up to brown bears with the right loads. Some people hunt bear with a. 50 beowulf rifle, which is even more potent than a 500 mag. Its not the dinosaur gun people seem to think it is. Its defintely beastly for a handgun
Well, a Mosin is just a cheap, fun bolt-action. Everybody should have one, it's a simple and sturdy rifle with widely available ammo. Having more than one, though, or blowing money on something like a Finn, is something only a collector should do
Even your basic 1940's Izveshks will run you a general minimum of $200 USD now.
Mosins are no longer "cheap." Mostly because Bubba keeps getting their hands on them and sporterizing them, plus the majority of imported stockpiles comes from Ukraine - and they need them right now for their civil war.
See them holes towards the end? That's a muzzle brake. The recoil of one of these, while substantial, is manageable. These newer heavier guns aren't really that bad in the big calibers. **** that sucks to shoot are .375 mag snub revolvers, .45 subcompacts, and anything large/ magnum caliber in autos with a "space age" lightened frame. You want a big heavy gun for large caliber
Lol, I know. It's supposed to be a joke. _ However, muzzle brake or not, the type of rich kids that go out and buy a large caliber handgun like the ones they see in CoD before training on anything lighter are likely to be limpwristed faggots that injure themselves from their own inexperience.
I'm not exactly a supporter of guns (not that I'm vocal about that, live and let live), but I do like the look of some of them. And, the mechanics are pretty neat, as well as what they can be capable of. Nasty weapons, but interesting ones.
personally I think firearms should be allowed in houses, so people can protect themselves, and another permit to conceal carry them but for the permit it'd be nice to require a psychological evaluation as well as a training course on proper handling. my reasons are because whenever I look at a crime where a person was killed or a store robbed I always think "damn, if honest people around had weapons, the criminal might be dead instead." and in my opinion if you flagrantly commit a violent crime, you can't complain if someone kills you.
As nice of a dream as it would be, people with CCs very rarely do any good in crisis situations. More often than not, they are injured or injure someone innocent while only escalating the situation. You are no more safe next to person with a CC than you are in a gun free environment. Those are just the facts. I think people should be able to own guns with universal registration and background checks but I am tired of the false argument that people with CCs are going to actually stop crime in progress.
Anon you're so wrong it hurts, a trained concealed carrier almost always does more good than bad in a crisis situation. Do a little more research than just the ******** you read on the huffington post or the news man. For every one story you read about a carrier ******* up and doing bad theres like 15 where they saved lives and stopped a bad guy. Many who never even had to pull the trigger to do so. I get that I'm a little biased as a gun owner working for his ccw but I hate seeing people spout their opinions as facts, even among gun owners people spout lies and propaganda as fact and I can't stand that. I hate seeing gun owners lower our cause to that level, especially when the facts support us.
Can confirm (from experience). Pistol weighs 4.5 pounds, inertia kills recoil. Hard to keep a sight picture after the first two because of weight though.
Definitely not. Even if the criminal had a gun, they'd **** off when you pulled this out. Your common criminal is gonna think a bigger gun is more deadly.
>be me chilling in my own private domicile late at night
>hear rustling downstairs and grab my [above firearm]
>see two nignogs tryna snatch my TV
>Take a shot at one and hit him square in the chest
>He explodes and my wrist is broken
>take a shot at the other with other hand
>miss but put a grapfruit sized hole in my wall
>Cops arrive on the scene 20 minutes later with my house flooded with the vaporized remains of the nignog I shot and me with two swollen hands
>surgury to fix my hand is $20k and had to fix wall
>worth
Personally, I carry the Ruger SRH Alaskan. I like the "compact" (relative) package it comes in, making it an easy carry, and if a .454 Casull won't save you from a Brownie, nothing else will either.
However, I've known many who do carry the SW500 (pictured by OP). Sure it might provide you with a bit more confidence in the bush, but is that tank barrel constantly swinging into your chest (or gouging you in the side) really worth it?
Personal preference I suppose.
It should be mentioned that I live in Alaska, and spend a fair amount of time in the bush with pissed off bull moose and hungry brown bears for company.
If you are buying such a serious piece of hardware for home protection or defensive carry, then from one gun guy to another, I'd like to respectfully say you're a ******* moron and if there were ever a poster child for gun control, it would be you.
Even if you miss... they will **** their pants, then their lower brain functions will override the rest of the brain and they will run for cover, much the way people run when lightning hits near them outside.