500 Smith & Wesson Magnum?

[Slim-Zippy]

I'v seen two people buy 500 S&W and both of them injured themselves the same day. Both injuries were to the hand or wrist. I think the shooting range where I go is selling and buying the same gun again and again. Much more sense to buy a 45-70 carbine. It weighs less, has more range, and is easier to shoot.

Unfortunately men will always test the limits of endurance, strength, common sense, and sanity. The only difference between men and boys is the price of there toys.

[havoc4sure]

Humm, I have a 8 3/8 500, I shoot 500 gr Hornady factory stuff and I love it. Dead on accurate! I shot 3 boxes over the course of say 90 min and felt no worse for it?

Not trying to pick a fight, but, Hell I love the thing.

[Andy L]

I dont see the problem either. I didnt read the whole thread word for word, but did get the tone.

Have all you guys that have talked of how much injury these things can cause actually shot one? Or is it speculation?

I have shot alot of big bore handguns over the years, not as much as some of you, Im sure, but more than your average Joe. Recently, I got the chance to shoot a 454 Casual. It was violent. Almost too much. As I write this, I have a 500 SW with a 4" bbl in my safe. Just got it the other day. Borrowed it from a friend to take on a bear hunt. I was more than nervous the first time I fired it. Its not bad at all, for what it is.

I know for a fact that gun doesnt do to me what the 454 did. Not even close. And I have shot 44 Mags that I would dread shooting agian, much more than the 500 SW that I got right now. Matter of fact, Im going this evening to bust a few more caps in it. Nice gun.

Andy

[gumpokc]

I got to shoot one of these beasts yesturday.

It's not as bad as i expected, but definately a handful.
I'm not a big guy either, 5'7" and about 195 lbs.

recoil: she lets you knwo you pulled the trigger for sure, but i have fired .44 mags and .454 freedom arms that recoiled harder.

If i was going to shoot more than three or four at a time, i'd damn sure wear a glove on my firing hand. Not so much for recoil, but you keep from having the checkering on the grip from eating into your hand.

Single action it fired great, and very accurate. fired 3 rounds at 20 yards, 1st was damn near dead center of target, 2nd about an inch and a half high and right, 3rd split the difference bewteen the first two. considerign the recoil, i dont think it was bad at all.

dbl action was a bear. trigger pull undewr dbl action was the worst i have ever seen. i meanit worked fine, it was just incredibly heavy. i couldn't hold the weapons centered on target while pullign the trigger dbl action.

fired three rounds dbl action, 1st 4-1/2 high and left, 2nd 6 high-2 right, 3rd 2 high-4 right.
and it wasent really recoil throwing me off, it was the damn trigger pull.

fired 4 more single action after that for a total of 10, and single action it's beautiful, but dbl action i was not impressed by anything but the shear amount of weight they managed to put into it.

I don't know if i would buy one or not. It might be great for hundgun hunting big piggies, but if i wanna do that, i'm personally using a shotgun or rifle, but thats just me.