Originally Posted by Ivan the Butcher

Just before Christmas 1991, I bought the first Desert Eagle in 50 AE, 3 extra mags and 700 rounds of ammo. I fired it and played with it. I fired a total of 150-160 round of Factory Sampson 300 grain ammo over the years and 100-200 rounds of Factory Speer/CCI 325 grain, and about 1000 rounds of reloads.

I bought the gun thinking it would never be popular and go out of production. Wishful thinking! after 25 years the used value finally got high enough I got the gun's purchase price back. But I still had 5 sealed factory 100 packs of Sampson 300 grain SP. I put the word out I had it for sale. One day a guy called and wanted to buy it all, He offered me $40/20 since I paid $18/20 I took it. I still have dies, bullets, & brass. I'll just keep them. After all, they aren't eating anything!

Range Report (way after the fact): Never had a misfire, extraction or ejection failure! The 300 grain Sampson ammo shot 2 or so inches at 25 yards, the Speer 325 grain was better by a 1/4 to 1/2 inch. The 350 Sampson SP was hard to find in the US but shot around 1 1/4" The 350 grain was very rare and shot 1" for the only box I ever shot.

Hawk Bullets made as 365 grain bullet for reloading, it only came in Soft point and also shot 1" in my H-110 reloads.

Ivan