The most powerful handgun in the world

Truly an insane handgun. Here's the email that was attached when a friend sent this to my dad:"You may have to watch Recoil twice. Try to follow the gun. This video isbasically a "show and tell" custom built on a Thompson Encore (fancyversion of the Thompson Contender). The Caliber... 600 Nitro Express.that's right...an elephant gun round in a handgun. The story goes thatthe guy that built it is some kind of custom gun maker, and built thisas an exhibition piece. He takes it to the range with him just to showit off, and the big guy that shot it (in the video) had been bugging thebuilder to let him shoot it. Now think about this...only until fairlyrecently (early-mid '80's IIRC) the 600 Nitro Express was hands down thebiggest, nastiest, hardest hitting, and heaviest recoiling weapon youcould buy. It was designed for one simple purpose...to knock an elephantflat on his butt. IMO, it was really built as an exhibition piece forguys "compensating"...this cartridge is known for breaking collarbones,arms, shoulders...of the shooter! Think about this, in the gun worldthey use what is termed as a "recoil index" to kind of give prospectivebuyers an idea of what a gun kicks like.A .30-06 gets a rating of a 1.0, which for many people is about thelimit of what they can shoot multiple rounds thru comfortably. A 243 israted at like a .4, a .270 was like a .8, etc. The ..600 Nitro Expressis rated at 9.4...9.4 times more punishing power than a 30-06. Now watchthe video..."

Channel: Sports
Uploaded: November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am
Author: oneatom12

Length: 01:02
Rating: 4.77
Views: 1323826

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