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Tenderfoot
Registered: 01/02/09
Posts: 9
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| | 05/25/09 at 06:57 AM | Reply with quote | #9 |
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I have played with a 500Mag in the 2 1/2" snubby that a buddy had (and replaced with a 4 3/4" 500WE and never regreated it for a second) , it was a very well put together gun, very handy as a bear back up or boat anchor your pick, but not my cup of tea! The gun had no porting and that to me is a plus, I hate muzzle blast far more than recoil, but I never found the recoil to be as nasty as everyone said it would be. Granted most of the loads we shot were 450gr at 1100fps but with that short of a barrel a lot of the 500 loads that go 1500 in a 8 3/8" barrel barely make 1200 in the snubby. It still was not the type of gun you could run double action quickly and hit anything after the first shot.
I personnally would rather have my 45 colt Mountain Gun for a bear gun loaded with 300 or 335gr hard cast bullets at 1000fps. Far lighter, easier to shoot, far faster second and third shots, and a far more pleasant piece to carry. As a primary hunting gun? If I want a gun that is the size and weight of a rifle I will carry a rifle! The big Smiths are novel but I don't want one. I mean even if I was going to get a dedicated scoped revolver I would far rather have a Freedom Arms with 9 or 10" tube in 454 or 475 hanging on a sling than those danged Smiths.
But to each their own, I do feel that Smith is pushing the gun in the wrong way, they are pushing the 460 with light bullets as a 200 yard hunting revolver! I feel that gun begs for 360gr+ hard cast bullets and then only up to 100 yards, there are but a handful of guys who can honestly shoot that gun at 200 yard ranges but if Smith says they can then a bunch of bozos with try to kill game at 250 yards plus who probably have not shot their gun enough to get it properly sighted in! Smith is advertising for sales and it will result in a lot of crippled game out there.
Len, I am sorry for your bad experience with Reeder but it does seem to be the rule not the exception with him. I would not send someone I didn't like to him to have work done. And yes Corian that he loves to make grips from is the same Corian that they make counter tops from. I bet he rounded the the edges and corners off on your gun with his danged buffer too didn't he? Reeder truely is something else...
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