https://shopkahrfirearmsgroup.com/bl...eid=8a72b69f44
They do this just after my long wait time for a 500 Linebaugh from Mr. Linebaugh.
https://shopkahrfirearmsgroup.com/bl...eid=8a72b69f44
They do this just after my long wait time for a 500 Linebaugh from Mr. Linebaugh.
I know how you feel, wanted a 500 but they didn’t chamber for it last year so went with the 475.
I just cannot imagine doing that to my hand... I have tried several SA revolvers over the years and that grip and grip angle just kills me. OTOH, I love shooting my Desert Eagle .41 mag.
Certainly lots of hype, but I believe that the Freedom Arms revolvers are nicer, and I believe that the .500 smif is a bigger round.
I agree 100%, and it's such a shame. MRI could design any grip frame they want, but they choose to offer plain old single action grips. On a gun with no ties to any other, it's not ideal for fast shooting, or competition. Why not put a set of grips on that allow you to target shoot or hunt 2 handed from a rest better. I have not been able to ever shoot a BFR, but what you get is phenomenal. Mechanically the BFR is capable of being every bit as accurate as a Freedom Arms. For half the price, all you are giving up is some spit shine. I really hope MRI comes up with a double action some day.
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If they are going to do a .510 , I wonder if they would build a 50-70 on a long frame?
It's been 14 months in the pipeline.
Some of us were calling monthly about it. at times, weekly, depending on their response. (almost here, almost here, almost here....)
I've never tried a bisley grip in any form. I still don't see what it has over a double action grip. It just seems odd to me that all single action grips are a smooth contour, while many double action grips are shaped like a persons hand.
One of the 5.5" models would be a nice package. With a little tinkering, BFRs are a pretty nice revolver. Have they ditched the cheesy plastic/rubber grips, or are they still standard?
They are nicer. But are they twice as nice? Because they're tipically about twice the price.Certainly lots of hype, but I believe that the Freedom Arms revolvers are nicer
If you've never tried it, you wouldn't see it.I've never tried a bisley grip in any form. I still don't see what it has over a double action grip.
And if you do try it, you may not still. It's just personal preference.
Life is a series of bullseyes and backstraps - Ted Nugent
.500" is the maximum diameter allowed for a cartridge handgun per NFA regulations.
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I never owned a .357 maximum but like others I read the horror stories that went around the shooting community a few short years after it introduction. In theory, I really like the idea for shooting steel at extended arranges or for a hunting cartridge that would launch heavier bullets out to hunting ranges and shoot fairly flat doing it. I am sure that with todays engineering talent available and improved steels in handguns, a solution to the problems could be worked out. However, the sports magazines have poisoned the water, so to speak, and I don't see a company willing to spend a couple million dollars correcting the problems that existed. It would be an uphill climb even if it did become successful and few companies can afford to take a chance on an "iffy" product. Maybe Wesson, who seemed to have got it right the first time around, will re-introduce their excellent version. my .02 anyway, james
So is their 500 linebaugh built on the long frame or the short frame? I just can't get over the cartoon like proportions of the long framed revolver like they use for the 45-70 guns.
I was a dog on a short chain.
Now there's no chain.
Jim Harrison
Actually, the law reads to not have a "Bore Diameter" larger than 1/2" Not shoot a bullet larger than 1/2" . So look at the definition of Bore and groove measurements. The Bore diameter is measured from the inside of the lands. Now Add .005" deep grooves and you can shoot .510" bullets, but the "bore diameter" is still only 1/2" .500"
https://www.americanrifleman.org/art...oove-diameter/
The 50AE got mixed up in this lack of understanding the proper terminology.Here's the definition, right out of the NRA Firearms Sourcebook. It is “...the minor interior diameter of a barrel that is the diameter of a circle formed by the tops of the lands.” That is the bore diameter, but groove diameter is “...the diameter of a circle circumscribed by the bottom of the grooves...”
when it was first conceived, it was supposed to be a straight walled case shooting a .510" bullet. But who ever was in charge of making the decision at the ATF made them change it to shoot a .500" bullet before they would allow the Desert Eagle 50AE to be imported into the US.
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