60 cal pistol

[jimbo]

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60 CAL. PISTOL

You may have to watch Recoil twice. Try to follow the gun. This video is basically a 'show and tell' custom built on a Thompson Encore (fancy version of the Thompson Contender). The Caliber....600 Nitro Express!

That's right...an elephant gun round in a handgun. The story goes that the guy that built it is some kind of custom gun maker, and built this as an exhibition piece. He takes it to the range with him just to show it off, and the big guy that shot it (in the video) had been bugging the builder to let him shoot it.

Only until fairly recently (early-mid '80's IIRC) the 600 Nitro Express was hands down the biggest, nastiest, hardest hitting, and heaviest recoiling weapon you could buy.

It was designed for one simple purpose...to knock an elephant flat on his butt.... IMO, it was really built as an exhibition piece for guys 'compensating' ....

This cartridge is known for breaking collarbones, arms, shoulders...of the shooter!

In the gun world they use what is termed a 'recoil index' to kind of give prospective buyers an idea of what a gun kicks like.. A 30-06 gets a rating of a 1.0, which for many people is about the limit of what they can shoot multiple rounds comfortably.

A 243 BR is rated at like a 0.4, a 270 was like a 0.8, etc. The 600 Nitro Express is rated at a 9.4.......9.4 times more punishing power than a 30-06.

Now watch the video......the video provides a clear, definitive example for the word "idiot"...?

 

[cougartex]

Ouch!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Texas1911]

.600 NE has about the same recoil as .460 Weatherby Mag because the guns weigh so much. They don't break people's shoulders and collarbones unless you are a complete idiot.

The issue here is ...

1.) The guy clearly does not know how to shoot a big bore handgun.
2.) The gun is way too light.
3.) The muzzle brake is incorrectly designed for that gas volume.

I would shoot it. I ain't skeered.

 

[RetArmySgt]

Im going to do more research but i think i remember reading somewhere that the largest caliber allowed in a Handgun other than blackpower was .500 caliber. I could be mistaken which is why im going to look it up again. Has anyone else heard of read that?

 

[Texas1911]

I think it's something to do with .50 BMG being the last caliber before it's marked NFA as a destructive device or AOW. That's just going off the top of my head.

 

[RetArmySgt]

That might be it, but i think it might be part of the SW 500 ad as well about the largerst caliber handgun allowed in the US. or something along those lines.

 

[Clockwork]

I was talking about this gun in another thread just yesterday, actually. Gun itself costs $20,000 and each bullet is $50. That's a pricey day at the range, eh? The lead on that bullet looks like it's the size of a freaking shot glass.

 

[ZX9RCAM]

I wonder how much damge was done to the gun after it left his hands?

 

[Big J]

Tha video is a fake. O the guy can shoot for shit. There is another video of him shooting a rifle and he does the same thing.