Got this gun back in 2013 Used Off GB....Almost new except for a couple dings on the crane where it was bumped using something
Hard for a rest...l asked the seller about ammo, box, papers. He sent them All..But wanted a buck apiece a Rd for the ammo.
I jumped at that deal..A couple hundred rds came. Every box was Corbon Hunter. �� Only one box was 460.. Rest was 454 Casull..
Sold all the 454 ammo for two bucks a Rd ... First Big Bore match l took BAMBAM to l got quite a few raised eyebrows from the
Muzzle Blast.. I was only shooting Reduced Loads Too..From my Speer #12.....

Fast forward a couple years. jaymoore suggested we might shoot something DIFFERENT our last match.
So l thought of BAMBAM...Field pistol does not allow anything above 44 mag in power..Even reduced load 460s are considerably that level..l decided to load up some 45 Colt loads and try those... Never never ever again will shoot 45 Colt in a 460.. Took me 4ever to get that colt ring out the cylinder ...Remembering when l used to shoot wimp loads in my 458 Winchester Magnum- l decided to use the same procedure.. I now have a wimp load In my 460...FULL Length cases .. No more 'ring around the collar'. Just a nice 250gr Speer @ 900fps..Accurate and plenty enough for a SC whitetail doe inside 100yds

I don't know why, but all I hear in my head is...

"Think ya used enough dynamite there, Butch?"

Looks like you had fun - and that's what it's all about.

Take care,
Bob S.

That's one nice hunk of stainless! Now you get to clean BamBam and shine that brake!!

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Happy y'all got photos!

And happy BAMBAM wasn't in "earsplitzensieloudenkaboomer" mode as well.

More photos in the S&W Competition Forum:

Last IHMSA match for 2016

Sorry BAMBAM is a copyright infringement!!

Maybe BANGBANG or BOOMBOOM..........

No infringement Sir.. This Model is a NO DASH BAMBAM :-)

Under US copyright law if it's close enough to cause confusion ...... it's too close.........

However nice guy that I am....... I'll grant you a limited use license.... for that handcannon of yours!!!!!!

BAM-BAM

Wonder what Fred Flintstone has to say about all this?? ;-)

His son's use expired in 8,049 BC .......17 years after his passing in 8066!

According to Wikipedia.... his spelling was Bamm-Bamm...no confusion!!

Actually, Bamm-Bamm was Barney Rubble's kid, Pebbles was the daughter for the Flintstones.

She was the arranged future Cave-Woman for Bamm-Bamm, but before that could happen, the Cave-Woman's Liberation movement came along.

The CWL is now being blamed for the extinction of the dinosaurs.

Have fun,
Bob S.

Could l shoot that course with my 686 Competitor.

Sure!

I even think it's "legally" configured, by IHMSA rules, if you want to keep score and all. (I.e., no porting, barrel length under 10 3/4", five pounds with iron sights or six pounds with optics max weight.)

I used a regular 6" 686 with scope for a while, shooting factory 357 loads. Did well, actually brought my scores up a bunch, but found the muzzle blast and expense a bit much. So went back to .44s after finally working up swaged lead bullet loads that shot as well as the .357 factory jacketed ammo with rather less blast. Kdiver58 is using an 8 3/8" 586 this year with very, very good results. And we had another shooter this month shoot with an iron sighted 6" 686.

The 6" barrel is long enough to have sight radius sufficient to reach out to 100 yards, no problem . If you have good eyes and/or good shooting glasses (like Knobloch or Champion's Choice) 200m should be doable. (I shot a 4" Model 67 at the match last weekend with decent results.)

I think for next year that my .357s may get reactivated for Big Bore Revolver class.

So, your .357 can be used in multiple classes, depending on how you set it up: Field Pistol, Field Pistol Any Sight, Big Bore Revolver, Big Bore Standing, BB Unlimited, and BB Unlimited Standing.

ETA: Reasonably close ranges to you may include:

Black Creek Gun Club. Patrick, SC

and the IHMSA range near Lincolnton, GA, which is on the back side of C. E. Norman's junkyard, AKA Little River Gun Club. Actually fairly picturesque.

LRGC 200m BB range near Lincolnton. There's the100yd Small Bore and Field Pistol available (just off to the right of this photo) as well.

SW282 and several others make the trek every month from your area to the Cherokee Gun Club's metallic silhouette range in Gainesville, GA. Which is where these photos were done. The fun resumes here in Feb. of next year on the first Saturday. Come on over!

In the past year I have watched two hunting shows featuring S&W bigshots using the .460 on game. In the first, they traveled both to Wyoming for antelope and to Alaska for caribou. The pronghorn took six shots to finish off, and the "hunter" was frantically reloading when the guide said, "He's down!" The caribou segment was no better. If I recall correctly, four shots required to down a big caribou at about 60 yards -- and caribou ain't that hard to kill.

The second show was a hunt for plains game in Africa, and several animals were taken. All took multiple shots to finish off, with plenty of frantic tracking between shots. Two of the animals were not recovered until 24 hours after the first shots, and both were still alive and required finishing shots. In neither show was shot placement ever discussed.

Both shows wrapped up with the usual, "Well, I guess we've showed the .460's got what it takes!"

Really??? Actually, I don't doubt it, but I was mystified as to why these shenanigans were ever aired. As far as I could see, all they did was make the .460 look rather pathetic and reinforce the common, if erroneous, belief that handgun hunting is little more than a stunt.

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Hits don't mean a thing: If the critter doesn't go down, it's called a miss. And they never wander off, unless they're REALLY, REALLY dead! Especially Chickens. Free standing "Dead Chickens" sometimes fly well downrange. Which makes me smile, just thinking of launching one over the berm!



One of the reasons I got hooked shooting metallic silhouette.

ETA: Here's a woman in the process of launching a 50m Big Bore Chicken at Lincolnton with her UAS (Unlimited Any Sight) Remington. Bullet has just impacted:



Close up of above, sort of...:


No "in flight" photo, though.

Man, woman, senior, junior (we've had responsible supervised shooters as young as 10 (maybe less)), rich, poor, physically challenged, black, white, Chinese (including the 1996 Chinese Olympic shooting team) all have a big time at these matches. We even have both metric and English measured ranges. All "inclusive" and "diverse" before it was even a thing! Dang, we must be liberals! Who knew?

I wouldn't go as far as to say "liberals"! We just don't discriminate!!

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But we do. No unsafe or terminally stupid people. And darn few crass folk.

Real estate/hunting are like bullets/houses..


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