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Originally Posted by DonD
Early on in the life and history of the 500 Mag, I remember reading an article where Herb Belin, S&Ws revolver manager commenting that they could have made a .70 caliber.
While I really like my 500s, I have no interest in a .70 cal revolver whose power levels were proportionately scaled up from the .500 Mag. Don
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I have an old handloading book by Phil Sharpe that was owned by my father. It was written prior to WW2, I believe about 1939. The 357 Magnum was, at that time, all the rage and the newest and most powerful handgun round. There are passages in the book about how powerful and dangerous handloading the round is, how it should only be the province of "experts", and that mere mortals should not tread there. They also talk about how the 357 is about the extreme limit of power for a handgun cartridge. Clearly times have changed.
I'm not sure what the top-end limit is. I assume that there must be one, and also tend to agree that the 500 is pretty darned close to it. But who really knows?