Ladies and gentleman, I give you a .600 Nitro Express Pistol.

[TheMightyFavog]

:scared:

That'll dislocate your wrist if you're not careful. The .600 Nitro Express is the most powerful elephant gun cartridge ever made.

[TX-RAT]

1. Contender in 458 win

I had the chance to shoot a 14 inch contender in full length 458 win mag. I believe i could hunt with it, just hate the thought of sighting it in.

[bearfan454]

2. Nice

very nice.

[Deep13]

3. What is the purpose of that, besides to snap your wrists?

I don't get it. I thought hand guns were supposed to be, well, handy. Why would anyone want one that big and that hard to use?
:shrug:

[Redneck Socialist]

4. The "boom" factor

Some folks just gotta make the biggest "bang" at the range. Never saw the appeal myself. A 44 mag has done everything I've ever wanted a handgun to do and more, but whatever floats your boat I guess.

[freethought]

5. Was this gun actually ever fired?

Or was it built under the commission of some rich guy who wanted bragging rights.

Seems like overkill to me.

[Endangered Specie]

6. maybe this is it...

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7393849371432802275&q=recoil&pl=true

if not, I suspect a similar thing wound happen!

[Kolesar]

7. There's the story "other kids" told us about getting hit in the face

The story was a young person fired a powerful pistol and the pistol swung back and struck him in the face. It is something I would have never thought about as a young person. Of course, I never fired a pistol until I took a pistol course in college.

[OffWithTheirHeads]

9. Great video

Kind of what I would have expected with a gun like that! Never saw the point myself. If you can't hit anything with it....

[krispos42]

11. Holy Flaming Pintos, Batman!!!

Ouch, that looked painful!

That is why I wouldn't go big-game hunting with that kind of gun! Maybe a .44 Mag. Give me a .270 Short Mag rifle. With the right bullet, it will take anything in the Americas, and shoot nice and flat while doing so. AND not go flying backwards twenty feet!

[progressivegunowner]

8. Even if you were careful

it might still dislocate your wrist. I wouldn't dare fire that thing from a pistol. Few people could handle a .600 Nitro in a rifle, let alone a revolver. I wonder if the owner of it is stupid enough to shoot it.

[Kolesar]

10. The king of supersized handguns

This www.Slate.com article on the S&W Model 500 was a good read: http://www.slate.com/id/2141089/">With three times the muzzle energy of Dirty Harry's classic .44 Magnum