.500 S&W Carbine

[gamedic]

I woke up this morning with a crazy thought in my head. Smith and Wesson should build a .500 S&W carbine rifle or an AR style upper. Several companies have built 44 Magnum carbines, so I would think a .500 carbine should be feasable. The thing would be wildly popular in bear country and amoung all the people who love to have the biggest baddest thing on the block. I was just looking at some ballistics charts for the .500, It is more powerful than a lot of rifles that are used to hunt bears. I think it would sell.

 

[Badkarma 1]

I caught a episode of Michael Bane's 'Shooting Gallery' show and he showed a .500 carbine. It's a pump action that resembles a short 870, thing is I can't remember who's making it! I'll Google it and see what turns up. Dale

 

[patvin]

+ 1 .....or a good lever action (i mean accurate and strongly built), in 460 too
R.

 

[38-44HD45]

I caught a episode of Michael Bane's 'Shooting Gallery' show and he showed a .500 carbine. It's a pump action that resembles a short 870, thing is I can't remember who's making it! I'll Google it and see what turns up. Dale

My friend Scot Towner made the slide action .500 carbine, right here in Lubbock, at Towner Manufacturing. I shot one a few times. It was pretty slick, and he sold several here and some in Alaska, but the first iteration had a strange safety inside the trigger guard, at the rear, rather than the front of the guard. In recoil, my middle finger would engage the safety. I was planning on buying one before I discovered the safety glitch. Right before Scot moved to Arizona last year, he had redesigned the safety to use one similar to an AR's, as I recall. Scot has now teamed up with Matt Burkett out in AZ, and when he and I last spoke, right before he moved, he told me that he plans on continuing making the pump .500s.

And then there is the Big Horn Armory lever action: http://gunblast.com/Bighorn89.htm

 

[J. R. WEEMS]

500 CARBINE

Better yet, they should allow us to have a detachable stock. There was a time.

 

[Hobie]

Big Horn Armory - Products

 

[muskrat man]

I'd like to see something in a good bolt action like a ruger 77 or even an auto, something built along the lines of an M1 carbine with a garand style bolt. sorta like the ruger deerfield. I just aint much on levers these days. Pump would be nice. Where might I find further information on one?

 

[mg357]

how about a ruger mini 14 but chambered in the s&w .500 magnum cartridge

 

[muskrat man]

how about a ruger mini 14 but chambered in the s&w .500 magnum cartridge

that'd work!

 

[Cyrano]

I'd REALLY like a shoulder arm for the 500 magnum. I'd prefer an auto over a pump or lever. My dream would be a short carbine, sorta like the old Ruger 44 mag rifle. Perhaps with a box or rotary magazine so it would handle pointed bullets.

 

[jack the toad]

As to a .50 cal. in an AR platform, the .50 Beowolf is out there but I haven't compared ballistics to the 500 S&W.
IMO, a lever action would be nice as would a rolling block or falling block type single shot. The break-open H&R/NEF single shot doesn't really trip my trigger.
I think a really cool combo would be a short barrel SxS. I saw one at the big Tulsa Wannemacher show and liked it.

 

[mac2]

Was just about to post a thread on this myself before I saw this one.

Either a lever action or the revolver with a permanent shoulder stock for the British market.

 

[REP]

H&R Handi-Rifle™ Youth

 

[Titan]

A lever action from Big Horn Armory is at the top of my 'lust list' (guns that I absolutley MUST own, but will never be able to afford).

 

[RobofANC]

There are so many forums with this same exact topic! But no product. I am after the same thing. Does anyone have a competent gunsmith to recomend to build such a critter. I would love to have a short barreled 460 S&W built off a Model 70 action. Push feed or claw.

At the same time I also want the same thing built off a Ruger M77 action to match my Ruger Blackhawk in .357 Maximum.

For that matter, maybe Smith and Wesson should do some market research on offering an 8 shot (would it make 9?) .357 Max off of an X frame.

 

[Titan]

There are so many forums with this same exact topic! But no product. I am after the same thing. Does anyone have a competent gunsmith to recomend to build such a critter. I would love to have a short barreled 460 S&W built off a Model 70 action. Push feed or claw.

At the same time I also want the same thing built off a Ruger M77 action to match my Ruger Blackhawk in .357 Maximum.

For that matter, maybe Smith and Wesson should do some market research on offering an 8 shot (would it make 9?) .357 Max off of an X frame.

Ruger now makes the 77/357 bolt action, with a five round rotary magazine.