can your handgun do this???

i robbed this off another site. it is such an awesome pic that i had to share... enjoy!

lol, forgot my answer, NO!!!!

NH_Hunter

yeah, the colors... since i am so severely colorblind, i really appreciate starkly contrasting colors (fire and night sky in this case). also think it is cool that you can see where everything is happening... notice the fire by the hammer, cylinder gap, ports, and barrel... and that poor scope... geeze... handgun scopes must get the sh** kicked out of them...

I bet I could make one of my wheelguns do that "once".

Photo any of the high intensity revolver cartridges shot at late evening and I'd imagine this pic could be duplicated pretty easily.  See what you have to look forward to, DAKOTASIN?  Photo your .480 at night and you should get something similar.  A ported barrel can be hell on your scope if ya have the bugger pushed forward to far.

Was their mention of specifics for this pic (revolver, cartridge, load)?

It is definitely a neat pic showing how the gases escape a revolver.  Later.  >>  klallen

oh, no mention of the load. i think it is a factory load, but seems to me that anybody that has a 454 loads their own... dunno. no specs offered. from where i robbed the pic, he called the gun a 'raging lunatic', and it appears to have the raging bull profile, thus the reason i think it is a taurus.

will be looking at a few scopes tomorrow for the 480. keeping everything in mind that has been mentioned here about handgun scopes... will be looking especially hard at bushnell, burris, and leupold. right now, the frontrunner is burris, and i never considered a bushnell until bear said it was a good 'un for him.

and, yeah, the porting does appear to be able to cause all manner of problems w/ a scope... sure glad mine isn't ported. not that i need the extra noise, anyway.

Can't say I have any revolvers that will match that photo but I have a darling little single shot that if someone wants to sit next to and snap a picture of as I touch them off they are welcome to and I almost positive then entire view will be yellow with fire.

SHe is an XP-100 chambered for the 338 WSM wildcat with a Holland Quick Discharge muzzle brake on the tip.

Favorite load is the 180 gr Ballistic Tip over 68.0 gr Rl-15.  Good for 2900 fps and lots of booming and banging.

Good Shooting!!!

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I carried a Colt Model 357 on my first tour in Viet Nam, as an adviser.  I took some handloads that illustrated the meaning of "loaded for bear" -- when you're more afraid of the gun than the bear.

One day I was in 18th ARVN Division Headquarters and saw a Viet Namese Air Force lieutenant with a Colt Python, with a 2 1/2" barrel in his holster.  I admired it and he said dolefully, "Can't get right ammunition for it.  Can only get .38 Special."

I said, "Truny Huy, I have the right ammo for that gun, I'll bring some tomorrow."

The next day, I brought a box of my handloads, and a little .38 snubby that I had, along with a pocket full of .38 Special powder puff wadcutters someone gave me.

The lieutenant was greatful, and I suggested we go shoot our guns.  He lit off the first of my handloads in that short-barreled Python, and a ball of flame engulfed his fist.  The front sight made solid contact with his forehead.

While he stood there stunned, I raised my little snubby, and he flinched as I touched off the first of those powder puff loads.   Then I offered to let him shoot it -- it took a whole cylinder full before he stopped flinching.

On the way back inside, he said, "You want change guns?"

I protested my gun was a gift, but he said, "You big man, little gun.  I little man, big gun.  I pilot -- maybe get shot down, need gun I can use."

Regretfully, I took his Python and gave him my little snubby.  

Vern,

He called you "Big man with Little gun!"   Why I would never let anyone say that about me........  Oh.......... he ment the pistol.  He he he, you know us slow sutherners......

I taught classes for concealed carry fror a few years aback in 95-97. One of the last things I did was take the studenst to teh open range at dusk and let them fire a handgun in dim ligt . Most didn't want to shoot one agiain after they saw all that flame around thier hand