500 Smith & Wesson Magnum?

[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.