The Big Horn Armory Model 89 is chambered in .500 S&W Magnum. That round is a beast when it’s fired from a pistol. From a 24″ rifle barrel it hits like Thor’s Hammer, only harder. It dwarfs a .375 Holland & Holland…I’ve never shot anything more powerful . . .
Crank the YouTube resolution up to 720HD, and look for the full review in a week or two. In the meantime, here’s a low-res glimpse of what happens to a 4-pound watermelon when it tries to absorb more than 4000 lb-ft of energy.
Perhaps the Government should ban sex because it feels good, think of all the sexual assaults that would magically disappear overnight if we ban sex, rape would be gone, children would not be molested, hell if we can save just one it is our responsibility to act.
WANT!
It dwarfs a .375 Holland & Holland…
I don’t think so. The .375 H&H clocks in at over 4500 ft. Lbs
Is 4000 ft-lbs an educated guess or is that an established figure? More to the point, can you please chrono that thing? That round must have been bookin’. I guess we can put to bed the argument that pistol caliber carbines are under powered.
Also, at 4000 ft-lbs it still doesn’t dwarf a .375 H&H Mag. That monster can push 4,500 ft-lbs. Regardless, for shooting a pistol cartridge, that carbine is damn impressive.
Final thought, it makes me laugh to think that gun control advocates believe a .223 is a high-powered cartridge. I think they confuse lethal with high-powered.
Huh? 500 S&W is a handgun round. Depending on the bullet weight, between 2500 and 3000 ft-lbs energy. A lot for a handgun, entry-level for a rifle. 3000 ft-lbs is .30-06 territory.
.375 H&H is a large game rifle round, and depending on the projectile is between 4200 and 4600 ft-lbs energy.
Looks to me like a great gun for hunting moose , grizzly, buffalo and the occasional Buick.
The two biggest holes in Mr. Donohue’s theory are:
1. The idea that the population of “criminals and crazies” is a large enough portion of the overall gun market to be worth going after.
2. The idea that background checks are going to disarm people who smuggle drugs for a living.
If this shiz passes, the name of my blog will be “Burr the traitor.”
We’ve been fighting these gun control battles for almost 40 years now. And we almost always win.
I think it is a stretch to claim any sort of winning record since that covers the period in which the Hughes amendment, Brady bill, the Clinton AWB, GFSZA, Lautenberg amendment and more infringements were enacted.
What are they going to do now, ban pictures of guns? I’m sure hollywood would be exempted…
Oh shit that was funny !
I have a bunch of Beavers building a damn on my property. I don’t mind the little critters.
Armalite Ballet
This is still being worked on by Senate staffers. Items of interest:
Crossing a state line with a gun accessible becomes felony. If gun has ammunition in it (the word “loaded” remains legally ambiguous), it’s even worse. This might not impact you in large states, but East-coasters cross state lines all the time.
The appeal for mental incompetence adjudication language for non-vets appears weak.
There’s a staggering $100 million provided for each year, 2014 through 2017. Yes, that’d be $400 million dollars.
Still in draft, and I still need to review further.
http://guardamerican.com/index.php/blog/38-protect/531-toomey-bill
How much of an azzhole do you have to be to provoke a fatal rodent attack? If this nimrod would have had a gun he’d probably shot himself in the junk in his panic to “defend” himself from this fierce creature. Some people only have 1 purpose in life. To serve as lessons to the rest of us.
He should have just stayed out of the Fire Swamp entirely. Didn’t anyone tell him it was teeming with R.O.U.S’s?
Sorry officers, blaming the ammo wont wash with me.
In one of the late Jim Cirllios books regarding his time in the NYPD stakeout squad, he details incidents where a 12 gauge shotgun at close range didnt put down a bad guy.
Shot placement is the only criterion that matters.Observe AF SP Andy Brown taking down an AK wielding bad guy at 71 yards-verified by the military-with a worn GI spec Beretta 9mm loaded with the legendary manstopper that is military issue 9mm FMJ NATO.