The Real Hand Cannons
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The use of the phrase "hand cannon" may have helped to misdirect it, if that is actually what happened.
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I'm a big fan of varmint handguns, I have a couple XP-100s as well as Savage Strikers and a few Lone Eagles.
Fun to shoot and rarely will some one pick one up and shoot it better than I do. Not so with rifles
Fun to shoot and rarely will some one pick one up and shoot it better than I do. Not so with rifles
I only have two (the XP-100 in 7mmBR and the H-S Precision 2000 VP in 7mm-08), but shortly after I got the H-S Precision, I had it out at the range and was shooting at 100yd, and I believe that this was when I was shooting it better than factory guarantee, which I recall was 1/2 inch at 100yd three-shot groups. I did that well or better five-shot groups, both factory (Hornady) and handloads. I let one or two others shoot it, one a young fellow who looked like he was military. He shot it about as well as I did, and I let him finish off the ammo I had with me.
Always nice to see that at least some of the next generation knows what to do with a gun.
Back in the 70's there was a gunsmith named John Towle. He owned a company named TNT Arms in North Conway, NH. He made all of this stuff on Wichita actions. I has him do some custom work for me on a Model 15, and when I went to pick it up I saw some of them. As I recall one was 7mm Rem. Mag, and another was 458 Win. Mag( full size). I remember the day I picked it up, I saw his wrist swollen the size of a hardball from competing using his own creations. I still have the Model 15. Smoothest action I have ever experienced. I have never tried to sell it. Not much demand for a Frankengun.
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Smith357
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My my buddy Bob and his hand cannon. 
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How so? It's not like there's some proper definition for the term "Hand Cannon" which clearly defines that which ought to be considered one, ergo you get a wide variety of guns appearing in the thread.
In fact, if you go by Wikipedia's article on Hand Cannons, pretty much any handgun could be considered a Hand Cannon since they are in essence just a miniturized handheld cannon.
Besides, the thread would be a lot less fun/interesting if everyone in the thread conformed to some arbitrary definition of a "Hand Cannon" and nobody else bothered to post anything at all.
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