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What's everyone's preferred big bore pistol?
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TG Pioneer
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I’ve got to meet him someday. The man’s an excellent writer.Too few understand this.
I remember meeting EC. I told him he couldn't park where he intended. He did anyway.![[laugh]](/xen/styles/default/xenforo/smilies.vb/012.gif "Laugh [laugh]")
What are you shooting, gold plated bullets?
It is not even close to $1 for a bullet.
If you are buying those small plastic boxes of 100 bullets, you are doing it wrong.
.480 Ruger ... $57 for 300 and these are good to go even with hot loads.
Missouri Bullet Company
Missouri Bullet Company offers premium lead bullets at affordable prices. We make hardness optimized bullets for the velocity of the loads you shoot.
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500 SW ... $59 for 200.
Missouri Bullet Company
Missouri Bullet Company offers premium lead bullets at affordable prices. We make hardness optimized bullets for the velocity of the loads you shoot.
missouribullet.com
If you want FMJ, for a .460, you can get 500 for $90:
.45 230 Gr. Full Metal Jacket Round Nose Bullets *NEW* | RMR Bullets
These beautiful jacketed bullets can be shot at +P velocities and will be as accurate as any you will find. This bullet can vary in appearance, depending on our source. Usually they have a brass colored jacket, but we have received some with a copper jacket. Both are great bullets and the...
www.rmrbullets.com
I love these RMR for the 460, they are very accurate.
All these calibers can be reloaded for under $1 per round and the brass can be reloaded multiple times so the cost is not even factored.
If you cast, the cost goes waaaay down for the bullets. For example, you can buy Hard Ball alloy for roughly $2.50/lb, that means 200 bullets at 400gr each would cost $28. If you mix your own alloy it gets even cheaper per bullet, can bring it down to $20-$15 per 200. Maybe less.
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I dont cast, have plans to in the future for uncommon stuff like .32 or some obscure antique guns, but for .480 or .50, that's a lot of lead I'm using that I have to buy and have shipped to me and that lead will go pretty quick.What are you shooting, gold plated bullets?
It is not even close to $1 for a bullet.
If you are buying those small plastic boxes of 100 bullets, you are doing it wrong.
.480 Ruger ... $57 for 300 and these are good to go even with hot loads.
Missouri Bullet Company
Missouri Bullet Company offers premium lead bullets at affordable prices. We make hardness optimized bullets for the velocity of the loads you shoot.missouribullet.com
500 SW ... $59 for 200.
Missouri Bullet Company
Missouri Bullet Company offers premium lead bullets at affordable prices. We make hardness optimized bullets for the velocity of the loads you shoot.missouribullet.com
If you want FMJ, for a .460, you can get 500 for $90:
.45 230 Gr. Full Metal Jacket Round Nose Bullets *NEW* | RMR Bullets
These beautiful jacketed bullets can be shot at +P velocities and will be as accurate as any you will find. This bullet can vary in appearance, depending on our source. Usually they have a brass colored jacket, but we have received some with a copper jacket. Both are great bullets and the...
I love these RMR for the 460, they are very accurate.
All these calibers can be reloaded for under $1 per round and the brass can be reloaded multiple times so the cost is not even factored.
If you cast, the cost goes waaaay down for the bullets. For example, you can buy Hard Ball alloy for roughly $2.50/lb, that means 200 bullets at 400gr each would cost $28. If you mix your own alloy it gets even cheaper per bullet, can bring it down to $20-$15 per 200. Maybe less.
I normally buy my bullets 500 to a box and usually for .45 that's about $100 today. .480 may not be tremendously more, that $59 for 300 aint bad, but I question what good it does given the biggest, meanest thing I'm likely to encounter around these parts is a large woman who hasn't gotten her chicken nuggets for lunch.
All I am pointing out is that the bullets are far from $1/bullet.
As far as what is the point? ... that is different for every person. If all you care about is personal defense then there probably no need to own more than 1 ir 2 rifles, 1 shotgun and maybe a couple of handguns.
Some people hunt with them.
Some people have them for fun.
Some people just like different guns and shooting them maybe a few times a year.
I like big bore revolvers because they are fun. I go to the range, dump several pounds of lead on steel targets and have a good time.
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The Ruger 44 Redhawk magnum revolver is surprisingly not painful to shoot. The grip is smooth and round and just kind of rotates up in your hand a bit when you shoot , but it doesn't sting like some 357 revolvers.
Asaltweapon
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But that’s a 629.
jaypap
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It's a 29 in Nickel 8 3/8" barrelBut that’s a 629.
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Been a while since we all posted in a big gun dick swinging contest, so i'm all in . Smith 12" 460XVR , Burris 4-12x , with my Atlas bipod I can bang a 14" gong at 200 meters if I have not had any coffee .
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I enjoy shooting my Remington 1911 R1S. My Colt Series 80 is a safe queen for sentimental reasons.
I have an S&W Mountain Gun 629 4”. I really enjoy shooting it. Next is a Bulldog in 44 Special. Everyone who has one seems to love it, which is odd because the people who don’t own them hate them. Anyone else have any experience with them?
I have an S&W Mountain Gun 629 4”. I really enjoy shooting it. Next is a Bulldog in 44 Special. Everyone who has one seems to love it, which is odd because the people who don’t own them hate them. Anyone else have any experience with them?
That's on the someday soon list for me. I'm still worried about ammo availability for their cartridge.
I don't see much point in going over .45 in a cartridge gun, especially if this is just a for fun pistol regardless of if you reload or not. Even reloading, if you're shooting .480 or .50 caliber, you're paying almost a buck for just the bullet, factor in the case, primer, and powder charges and you're up to $1.25 that you have to spend time making yourself. With .45, the bullets cost much less and are just as fun to shoot.
IMO, .454 is as big as I'm ever going to be willing to go.
Now, for a muzzleloader, I have the .54 Lyman Plains Pistol and it is interesting to shoot; people who complain about Glock grip angles have nothing to gripe about if they shoot one of these! That said, the rifled bore doesn't really do much when I'm shooting at 25 yards, a smoothbore would be more fun because at those distances the accuracy is just fine, but I'd be able to shoot shot loads. This is why I was excited when the AGC DIablo was announced.
For $500 you can legally let your Mad Max fantasies run wild.
All I could think of reading your post is this scene in Harley Davidson and The Marlboro Man.
Reload. Getting into reloading for one cartridge, specially a rare one, is not that expensive.
We recently talked the guy that cleaned up a trapdoor into reloading instead of dealing with factory 45/70. It just makes sense.
For the cost of a few hundred factory rounds.
This, not reloading for something like 45-70 is just straight on dick self punching lunacy, its the difference between having the gun be a dust collector and something you can
actually afford to shoot once in awhile. Commercial 45-70 prices for ammo are full retard often into the $2+ a round area.
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Wait, how would you flex on the poors then!?
Also, 500 S&W is $3.25/rd @ TS, so you 45-70 folk have little to complain about!
I do already reload. That doesn't mean I want to drop $2k on the next 327 Federal Magnum. Especially when I've already got guns I like a lot in the other calibers it comes with barrels for.
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