Woman killed by 500 magnum

[Joe Kent]

H Richard is correct on the event but the girl was in her early 20's. Dick and I are very familar with the range where it happened. It is a very short way away from our homes. We suspect that there was someone playing what turned out to be a very tragic joke by allowing an untrained amateur to shoot a heavy recoiling handgun. I would not be surprised if it was recorded on a cell phone and if in fact that is the case ,then I would hope that video never sees the light of day.

 

[dingomann]

It is easy to get a hard kicking semi-auto to 'bump-fire' and a revolver is not as easy but still doable. The only video with a decent outcome to one of these double strokes is the one of the bank robber casually holding a powerful revolver when he shot the teller. The gun recoiled and he triggered the second round under his chin. Instant end to this and all future robberies for that bad guy. It happened so fast you only hear one report. The teller survived.

 

[Bumslie]

 

[rwsmith]

Scaring a person......

Scaring a person with a loaded firearm is childish and unsafe. Asking to have bullets flying around uncontrollably is downright stupid. Adrenalin, fear, shock and surprise aren't a good combo to have with a loaded gun. I don't think responsible gun owners would do this.

 

[Oldiron]

I don't know why people think that you need to two arm/hand a heavy recoiling pistol.Some of you may remember me mentioning my T/C Contender in 45-70. That pistol is best shot one handed. Two hands make the pistol twist in your grip and it may wind up hitting you in the chest. With one hand, it starts by recoiling the hand, then the elbow, then the shoulder and then the side of your body. We were playing with my oldest son's video camera at the range a few years ago and took some video of him shooting the 45-70. One shot shows the pistol, at full double handed recoil, pointed directly at him and he is not wimpy at 240 and 6'2". Two handed shooting puts the recoil directly in line with your body and any uncontrolled fingers around the trigger is asking for trouble. .02 Larry

 

[zzzippper]

I don't like food that is painful (like jalapenos) and I don't like to shoot guns that are painful. In fact, I don't like pain.

Call me a wimp, call me a girl, call me a sissy...whatever. I tend to think I'm simply sane. Pain is the body's way of telling you "this is not good for you." If it was good, wouldn't it feel good?

Well, I know that some things that feel/taste good (like chicken fried steak) may not be "good" for you, in your doctor's opinion. But then, what does he know...he wants me to eat more salad.

So, OK, I eat more salad:

I once read this on the bathroom door (a sign, not graffiti) of an F-18 squadron at Cecil Field, FL: "Blood is the first sign that you've done something wrong."

 

[Grayfox]

This has been going on for a long time. I remember back in the 70s during the Dirty Harry .44 mag craze reading a column in one of the gun rags about this. The well know writer (Metcalf maybe?) had witnessed just such an event.
An inexperienced shooter bought himself a Model 29. He was holding the gun with bent elbows and the rear sight mere inches from his face. Several people moved to stop him, but it was already too late.
The first shot planted the rear sight firmly in his forehead. The second shot ripped a rather nasty gash all the way to the tip of his nose.
The image of that has stuck in my mind all these years.

 

[the ringo kid]

FULL AUTO 500 S&W - YouTube

I liked the video of that twenty two cal. steampunk gatling gun someone built out of brass and copper.I had to watch something else after that lady scared me watching her almost lose control of the weapon she fired.

 

[the ringo kid]

Here's one of a girl that comes within inches of doing just that.

CAUTION:
Stupidity in action.
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wFAXO3lIODE#

Stupidity on all accounts. Now ill bet that she is also not only terrified of all guns--but anti-gun too.

 

[the ringo kid]

This has been going on for a long time. I remember back in the 70s during the Dirty Harry .44 mag craze reading a column in one of the gun rags about this. The well know writer (Metcalf maybe?) had witnessed just such an event.
An inexperienced shooter bought himself a Model 29. He was holding the gun with bent elbows and the rear sight mere inches from his face. Several people moved to stop him, but it was already too late.
The first shot planted the rear sight firmly in his forehead. The second shot ripped a rather nasty gash all the way to the tip of his nose.
The image of that has stuck in my mind all these years.

I fired one of my dads fifty cal.Long toms--once--once. I learned my lesson early to shoot only what im comfortable with. Anyone giving a "cannon" toone who clearly shouldnt be within a mile of one--should be taken back behind the outhouse--and given a lesson on pain you get from a switch.

 

[one eye joe]

HERE'S A FILM OF THE MASTER, EMPTYING THE .500 MAGNUM IN THE BLINK OF AN EYE. FILMS LIKE THIS JUST SERVE AS A REMINDER TO ME, THAT AFTER 50 YEARS OF SHOOTING, HOW MUCH I STILL NEED TO PRACTICE……(THE .44 MAG IS MY UPPER LIMIT)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOz...zyqiT1FFA&x-yt-cl=84503534&x-yt-ts=1421914688

 

[glenncal1]

Watching that shockwave travel up Jerry's arm makes me think it cant be good for your joints to shoot these cannons much.

 

[federali]

Morons With Guns

If someone built a single-shot Thompson Center chambered in the .50 BMG, some idiot would buy it and then convince his girlfriend to fire it. The recoil alone would be fatal.

The .44 Magnum is my limit, also. I don't have strong wrists and I know at least two large men at my shooting range who sold the 500 S&Ws because it was too much for them.

If you need a gun that powerful, you really need a rifle.

 

[Qball]

If someone built a single-shot Thompson Center chambered in the .50 BMG, some idiot would buy it and then convince his girlfriend to fire it. The recoil alone would be fatal.

Like this one ?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lzri8dn7p0

 

[LostintheOzone]

The thread title makes it sound like the gun went crazy and killed someone.

Gun violence, happens all the time.

 

[goldenlight]

A lot of people buy a .460 or a .500 or whatever just because its the
biggest caliber commercially available. There will always be these types
who just want to have something to try and impress.
Not knocking those who have these here and use them for hunting or
whatever trips your trigger but you know what i mean.
I also am not into shooting things that cause as much harm to the shooter as the shootee.


Chuck

I have absolutely NO desire whatsoever to shoot any handgun more powerful than a 44 magnum. In my entire 40 years of shooting, 37 of which I owned at least one 44 magnum revolver, I have fired exactly 25 rounds of full power factory loaded 44 magnum.

When I paid WAY too much for a 6 1/2" Model 29-2, the man at the gun shop gave me a box of 20 240gr JSPs. I bought a box of 50 of Remington's now sadly discontinued 240gr. lead flat point 'medium load' ammunition. I found this ammunition VASTLY more pleasant to shoot than the full power ammunition. I shot it MUCH more accurately, as well.

For the next 37 years, I shot my home made cast 250 gr. Keith type semiwadcutters in a 'medium load', at targets. When I got a 4" Model 29, I loaded ammunition for it even lighter than for my 6 1/2".

Now I have 'mild' arthritis at the base of my thumb, on my right hand. I can only imagine how much worse it would be, if I had spent my life shooting full power 44 magnum loads, 700 rounds a week, as I used to, when I was younger.

Thank goodness for common sense.

Oh yeah: those other 5 rounds of 44 magnum. I was at the range one day with my 3" Model 629. A fellow came over with his REALLY nice Performance Center 629. Heavy slab sided barrel with integral muzzle brake. Hand tuned trigger. REALLY nice.

He was curious about my 'snubnose 44 magnum'. He fired 1 round of his factory 240gr JHP. He took the other 5 out. I gave him some of my lighter loads. He liked them a LOT more than his ammunition. I fired some of my ammunition though his PC revolver. it was NICE. REALLY NICE!

He gave me the 5 rounds of factory ammunition. I fired them in my 3" Model 629. Just to see if I could. It was NOT fun, but I got a fairly respectable group out of them.

 

[rwsmith]

I like feeling power......

I don't like food that is painful (like jalapenos) and I don't like to shoot guns that are painful. In fact, I don't like pain.

Call me a wimp, call me a girl, call me a sissy...whatever. I tend to think I'm simply sane. Pain is the body's way of telling you "this is not good for you." If it was good, wouldn't it feel good?

Well, I know that some things that feel/taste good (like chicken fried steak) may not be "good" for you, in your doctor's opinion. But then, what does he know...he wants me to eat more salad.

So, OK, I eat more salad:

I like feeling power, but man, there's a limit. If I really wanted to feel power I'd hold on to a live hand grenade, but I don't think that would be enjoyable. This is fine for those people that like it or have a need, but I don't for all kinds of reasons. Cost being next to breaking my wrists.

PS Scantily clad women shooting big guns are really sexy, though.

 

[the ringo kid]

Like this one ?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lzri8dn7p0

What was it that General McAuliffe said after the Germans demanded his surrender of Bastogne? Ill add the word: Absolutely--before McAuliffes great word.