by cobb on Thu May 24, 2012 4:24 pm
A friend of mine has a Desert Eagle in 50 AE and has taken a few black bear with his and loves it. His brother has a couple, a .44 and a .50 AE and took his hog hunting last January. To me they very heavy and all had a very crappy trigger. Personally I would not own one, just don't like them. But I do own both a .454 Casull and a .475 Linebaugh in Freedom Arms revolvers and really like them both, they are very well made and accurate. Yes they are expensive to shoot like the 50 AE caliber, but I handload for both and don't go to the range and run 100 rounds through them like I would a .45 acp.
Many non or new shooters see the Desert Eagle in a movie and just want to shoot one because they think they are cool. That's fine, some people pay big bucks to drive a tank over a car to crush it, I wouldn't pay to do that either, although most think it is cool.
I think it is a cool factor, like everyone had to have a .44 mag after the Dirty Harry movies came out. Then later if a person looking for a .44 mag for hunting kept their eyes and ears open, they probably found a very good deal on a S&W model 29's with only a few rounds through it. The cool factor wore off and ammunition was to expensive, so those new shooters unloaded their .44 mag.
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