I knew a "500" S&W was good for something...
 

3 bucks a pop sounds reasonable considering there's probably 1 .500 to a few mil of 9mm

I knew a "500" S&W was good for something...
 

On 8/26/15 8:38 AM, True North wrote:
Keyser Söze
On 8/26/15 8:22 AM, Tim wrote:
I have shot one several times. Its angry. Especially at $3. A pull



"I suppose if you are a "collector" of S&W revolvers, it is one you might
like to have. I've watched a handful of videos of "professional"
shooters firing it off at various targets, and it doesn't seem as if it
were much fun to shoot...really heavy revolver, lots of recoil and
muzzle flip, loud, expensive ammo. We don't have much "grizz" around
here, and if I really needed a revolver for "defense," I think my .357
MAG is more than sufficient.

$3 a pop for ammo? Now *that* is a giggle."




You would need a bloated 'Uncle Sam' pension to afford that ammo.


Well, reloading might be cheaper, but you'd have to have the reloading
equipment and the consumables. I don't reload at all, so I have no idea
what it might cost.

I knew a "500" S&W was good for something...
 

http://smg.photobucket.com/user/Fast..._0100.jpg.html

I knew a "500" S&W was good for something...
 

On 8/26/15 8:43 AM, Tim wrote:
3 bucks a pop sounds reasonable considering there's probably 1 .500 to a few mil of 9mm


Reasonable in terms of what? $3 a shot for ammo...??? If it is .500 S&W
Magnum, it is $1.50 to $2.00 a round for "ordinary" name brand ammo.
That's still about five times what I pay for good ammo for my AR 15 or
..357 MAG revolver.

I think it is more of a bragging rights firearm than anything really
useful for either target shooting or defense against grizz.

I knew a "500" S&W was good for something...
 

3 bucks a whack was when it was introduced. Don't know what it is now. I don't have one and don't want one. That is unless it's a bolt action long gun. And yes it's not a production for the masses so the expense justifies for the product.

I knew a "500" S&W was good for something...
 

Speaking of "reasonable" I have about 3 thousand rounds of .223 I've collected over the years. Average price was .11c a round.

How much are you paying, Harry?

I knew a "500" S&W was good for something...
 

On 8/26/15 9:19 AM, Tim wrote:
Speaking of "reasonable" I have about 3 thousand rounds of .223 I've collected over the years. Average price was .11c a round.

How much are you paying, Harry?



My "favorite" cheap .223 ammo is Wolf Gold, for which I'd be paying 29
cents a round, if I were buying any. I have a ton of it, though,
probably as much as you have...a few thousand rounds. I like it because
it is clean firing, reliable, brass cased, non-ferrous FMJ, and accurate
enough for me. There's more accurate target ammo out there, but I'm
damned close to where I want to be with the Wolf. When everything is
right, I can shoot a couple of 1" groups at 100 yards, though most of my
groups seem stuck at 1-1/2". That's using a bag as a rest, not offhand.

This is what I'm using, mostly:

http://tinyurl.com/ojd4gxe

I knew a "500" S&W was good for something...
 

On Wed, 26 Aug 2015 05:38:43 -0700 (PDT), True North wrote:

Keyser Söze
On 8/26/15 8:22 AM, Tim wrote:
I have shot one several times. Its angry. Especially at $3. A pull



"I suppose if you are a "collector" of S&W revolvers, it is one you might
like to have. I've watched a handful of videos of "professional"
shooters firing it off at various targets, and it doesn't seem as if it
were much fun to shoot...really heavy revolver, lots of recoil and
muzzle flip, loud, expensive ammo. We don't have much "grizz" around
here, and if I really needed a revolver for "defense," I think my .357
MAG is more than sufficient.

$3 a pop for ammo? Now *that* is a giggle."




You would need a bloated 'Uncle Sam' pension to afford that ammo.

Your Canadian pension wouldn't cover it, donne'?
--

Ban idiots, not guns!

I knew a "500" S&W was good for something...
 

On Wed, 26 Aug 2015 05:22:58 -0700 (PDT), Tim
wrote:

I have shot one several times. Its angry. Especially at $3. A pull

That is why I say a guy with one, should be reloading. With revolvers,
recovering the brass is not even hard.

I knew a "500" S&W was good for something...
 

On 8/26/15 11:07 AM, wrote:
On Wed, 26 Aug 2015 05:22:58 -0700 (PDT), Tim
wrote:

I have shot one several times. Its angry. Especially at $3. A pull

That is why I say a guy with one, should be reloading. With revolvers,
recovering the brass is not even hard.


It's a buck and a half a shot with factory loads. What's you guess about
reloading, assuming you recycled the brass a few times and were buying
readymade bullets?