S&W 460

[Rodentman]

When the 500 S&W is empty it makes a good place to store AA batteries or chap sticks. The long bbl isn't tough to shoot. The 4" can be a challenge. They're nice to buy used since you can be pretty sure they haven't seen heavy usage. I can someone buying one, firing a few Corbons, saying "day-um" and trading it at the gunshop.

I find that 330g lead bullets with Trail Boss makes for a lot of fun. Gotta watch the headstamp if you're loading .502 bullets. Don't work well with CBC brass. And Dardas sells .503 lead. GEEZ!

[crbutler]

Gotta say to you .500 S&W and .50 AE guys, full half inch bullets are not .501-.503

They are .510

As in .50 BMG or .500 NE.

Real men (not me...) go with .585 or bigger bullets.

As to the .460 S&W I have shot a buddy's a bit. With full house loads, the .460 is more felt recoil than the .500 to me.

Very well put together, very accurate, very heavy (it has a long barrel 10" or some such- and it came from S&W with a bipod of all things...) I have a .30-06 rifle that weighs less.

Full house recoil is sharp, but not bad. Its a pussycat with .454 casull ammo and .45 colt is like .22 target loads out of it. If I was bound determined to become a handgun hunter, I would buy one of these, but since the only handgun hunting I do is local deer, anything .357 mag or bigger will work well, and I have no real desire for one.

[brewerbob]

I would like to try a .50 someday. I think I reached my recoil limit doing .460. 20 rounds produced the same feeling in the hand as a heavy deadlift. Maybe need to get some padded gloves.

[Rodentman]

We will have to get together sometime. You can fire my .50 DE and the 500 mag.

[Seismic Sam]

The Smith 460 and 500 are two of the rare cartridges that actually fall into the "you can MAKE money reloading" category, with payback for a turret press and other basic goodies in 100 - 150 rounds loaded, with ammo for these two guns going for $2.50 a pop (KABOOM!!!!!, actually...) before all the price madness started.

[Rodentman]

But don't lose sight of the powder. For pansy loads you'll get ROUGHLY 400 from a 9oz bottle of Trail Boss and 150-175 from H110 and Lil Gun for the hotter stuff. (Sam probably loads hotter than I do.) Bless his soul!