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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHsEojBGojI

60 CAL. PISTOL - read before you watch this fat guy step over the line:
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"...?

 "Life is tough ..... It's even tougher if you're stupid." - John Wayne







 
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randywa said:


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.
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Yea a bit ludicrous for a handgun, but being a former Armorer and a competitive shooter for the last 20+ years, I beg to differ on this one. The .600 Nitro is commonly loaded with a 900 gr bullet at approximately 1950 feet per second with approximately a 7600 FP where as the .50 BMG I shoot launches a lake City Match 624gr bullet at approximately 2750 feet per second with about a 12,000 FP.

Now that said, yes the .600 has a larger bullet diameter, but it is not the biggest and baddest in my humble opinion,

Personally I will take the .50 or a .338 Lapua any day and just sit out at 1500-2000 meters versus having the horrendous drop of most of the N.E.s and limiting my safe range to about 200-300 yards which is where I shoot my anschutz .22 rimfire to practice follow through and position to prep for long range center fire matches of which I go to my 6mm brx for.
 
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Hey!! You scratched my gun!!!

Nice boy but dumb. Sharp like tabletop. :tongue:

Don't suppose he would be game to try and make a 4 bore?

Pete
 
Old Round

The 600 Nitro Express is a very old round, been with us for a long time and as such probably does not compare to some of the more recently developed belted magnums.
turner.curtis said:
randywa said:


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.
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Yea a bit ludicrous for a handgun, but being a former Armorer and a competitive shooter for the last 20+ years, I beg to differ on this one. The .600 Nitro is commonly loaded with a 900 gr bullet at approximately 1950 feet per second with approximately a 7600 FP where as the .50 BMG I shoot launches a lake City Match 624gr bullet at approximately 2750 feet per second with about a 12,000 FP.

Now that said, yes the .600 has a larger bullet diameter, but it is not the biggest and baddest in my humble opinion,

Personally I will take the .50 or a .338 Lapua any day and just sit out at 1500-2000 meters versus having the horrendous drop of most of the N.E.s and limiting my safe range to about 200-300 yards which is where I shoot my anschutz .22 rimfire to practice follow through and position to prep for long range center fire matches of which I go to my 6mm brx for.
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I had seen it before it was made in 2008. I don't find it funny at all. We had a member of my gun club dislocate/tear his cornea firing a .50 bmg. Im more impressed with the guys who could sit for two hours and have one hole for ten rounds.
 
DavePowers said:
I went to a gun show and they had on display a vintage 10 gauge handgun. I don't even want to shoot a 10 gauge shotgun!

Dave
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that most likely fired the brass shells loaded with black powder. I would suspect it would be like touching off a .44 mag.
 
I recall a guy who purchased a .454 Casull. He was all so proud of it. Well he went to fire it off, both hands. the recoil from his first shot had the hammer, nail him in the forehead. somehow that action cocked the hammer back and it fired again. with that made the barrel thunk him good. again in the forehead. Needless to say... there was an ad on the bulletin board couple of weeks later for a used .454 only fired twice.
 
I've said this here many times "you can't fix stupid"! It used to be part of my signature, maybe I should put it back.
 
Smitty37 said:
The 600 Nitro Express is a very old round, been with us for a long time and as such probably does not compare to some of the more recently developed belted magnums.
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The 600 nitro was developed in 1903 for civilian use in Africa. The standard loadings were 100, 110 or 120 grains of cordite. Keep in mind these were designed to be shot from a (mostly) handmade shoulder fired double rifle. The load developed a max muzzle energy of about 8400 foot pounds with a chamber pressure of about 2500 bar

The 50 bmg was developed by John Browning in the 1910's for military machine guns, and using modern (at the time) granular powders, could develop between 13000 and 15000 foot pounds in a weapon designed to be pintle mounted and withstand normal chamber pressures of 3780 bar.

It's not so much age as intended application. Putting either in a handgun is simply silly.
 
I do think it is funny, I mean anyone that has been around guns has shot the one that made em say wow it is called knowing your limits.!!! Mine was a 44 magnum pistol, did I loose it? No but it got my attention. I've shot a 50 call single shot Barnett rifle I believe it was, would I shoot the pistol version of this...na Pass that's where common sense comes in. Just because it is there does not mean it needs to be conquered.
 
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I understand

jskeen said:
Smitty37 said:
The 600 Nitro Express is a very old round, been with us for a long time and as such probably does not compare to some of the more recently developed belted magnums.
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The 600 nitro was developed in 1903 for civilian use in Africa. The standard loadings were 100, 110 or 120 grains of cordite. Keep in mind these were designed to be shot from a (mostly) handmade shoulder fired double rifle. The load developed a max muzzle energy of about 8400 foot pounds with a chamber pressure of about 2500 bar

The 50 bmg was developed by John Browning in the 1910's for military machine guns, and using modern (at the time) granular powders, could develop between 13000 and 15000 foot pounds in a weapon designed to be pintle mounted and withstand normal chamber pressures of 3780 bar.

It's not so much age as intended application. Putting either in a handgun is simply silly.
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Agreed it was intend for very large game. I remember reading about it being used on Safari in Africa in the late 40s and early 50s..I believe it was used mostly in double barrel rifles because there was (at that time) no action strong enough to use with it, and having a single shot for a charging bull elephant or rhino wasn't considered to be safe enough. I only intended to show that as bad as that round is in a handgun there are probably even more dangerous rounds.
 
Agreed

snyiper said:
I do think it is funny, I mean anyone that has been around guns has shot the one that made em say wow it is called knowing your limits.!!! Mine was a 44 magnum pistol, did I loose it? No but it got my attention. I've shot a 50 call single shot Barnett rifle I believe it was, would I shoot the pistol version of this...na Pass that's where common sense comes in. Just because it is there does not mean it needs to be conquered.
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I fired a Ruger .44 Mag and it was plenty of gun for me. I was going to buy one because I liked to hunt with a hand gun but it was so mean I decided to keep hunting with my rifle and shotguns. I did have a .357 mag and that was nice because you could practice with .38 special low power wad cutters.
 
Smitty37 said:
snyiper said:
I do think it is funny, I mean anyone that has been around guns has shot the one that made em say wow it is called knowing your limits.!!! Mine was a 44 magnum pistol, did I loose it? No but it got my attention. I've shot a 50 call single shot Barnett rifle I believe it was, would I shoot the pistol version of this...na Pass that's where common sense comes in. Just because it is there does not mean it needs to be conquered.
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I fired a Ruger .44 Mag and it was plenty of gun for me. I was going to buy one because I liked to hunt with a hand gun but it was so mean I decided to keep hunting with my rifle and shotguns. I did have a .357 mag and that was nice because you could practice with .38 special low power wad cutters.
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I stand by what I said before, I ran out of manhood or the need to compensate at 44 mag.
 
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