U.S.SFC_RET
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The guy gets his fifteen minutes of fame that he otherwise wouldn't get. Fools are born every minute and are set out to prove it for the rest of their lives.
Recoil video hard to believe
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To tell you the truth, I am a bit suprised by some of the comments here.
This is the USA. Well known for going to the limit and then some in any and almost every thing. Why have a gun that powerful? Why not? Why have a motorcycle with a Viper engine? Why would International Harvester make the CXT SUV? Why have .50BMG rifles and handguns? All about one-upping, how far can you go. If it can be built, build it, no reason needed.
This is the USA. Well known for going to the limit and then some in any and almost every thing. Why have a gun that powerful? Why not? Why have a motorcycle with a Viper engine? Why would International Harvester make the CXT SUV? Why have .50BMG rifles and handguns? All about one-upping, how far can you go. If it can be built, build it, no reason needed.
Pietro Beretta
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I think the limit was reached here.
Yea we go to the "limit" but we know when to stop! Their have been several exotic cars that were made and did not get put into production because they were too fast, and no one could handle them. I believe the Ferrari F50GT was originally designed for formula races, 3 were made, instead of using them for races, they were sold to civilians. I believe that 2 of them are never driven just for show, and the 3rd one has been totaled, and fully re-built 3 times, and the driver was a profeshinal....
We need to know when to say, ok we reached a limit.
If you want to put some practical use to that gun, take off the pistol grip, and somehow put on a stock, if you cant hold on to the damn thing, whats the point?
Yea we go to the "limit" but we know when to stop! Their have been several exotic cars that were made and did not get put into production because they were too fast, and no one could handle them. I believe the Ferrari F50GT was originally designed for formula races, 3 were made, instead of using them for races, they were sold to civilians. I believe that 2 of them are never driven just for show, and the 3rd one has been totaled, and fully re-built 3 times, and the driver was a profeshinal....
We need to know when to say, ok we reached a limit.
If you want to put some practical use to that gun, take off the pistol grip, and somehow put on a stock, if you cant hold on to the damn thing, whats the point?
Carl N. Brown
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"anti-ordinance pistol"
Yeah, an outrageous pistol to make gun laws look silly. maybe.
Make Tom Diaz hyperventilate about assault kopkiller anti-tank bullets
and guns that recoil and take down airliners (the gun itself recoils and
hits an airliner after the bullet penetrates the tank and kills baby seals).
This is the Monster Truck of the pistol world, just for funsy folks.
Like my tennis ball cannon: has no one a sense of fun amymore?
Yeah, an outrageous pistol to make gun laws look silly. maybe.
Make Tom Diaz hyperventilate about assault kopkiller anti-tank bullets
and guns that recoil and take down airliners (the gun itself recoils and
hits an airliner after the bullet penetrates the tank and kills baby seals).
This is the Monster Truck of the pistol world, just for funsy folks.
Like my tennis ball cannon: has no one a sense of fun amymore?
CAnnoneer
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Guys like the idiot in the video make us all gunowners look like a bunch of jackasses. And it's not a hoax - look at the surprise and fear on his face after the gun barely missed his head. I wonder how much protection the safety glasses would have offered...
Giolli Joker
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The guy is John Taffin... he doesn't seem to be an idiot, maybe a recoil addicted shooter.
StrikeEagle
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Are you sure? Can this be confirmed somehow?
I somehow can't believe that's Taffin, but I stand to be correcte, of course.
StrikeEagle
I don't think it's John. The guy who posted it on NitroExpress, Kamikaze, is named Bob. I don't doubt John probably wouldn't mind shooting it.
It's pretty funny in one thread, links to he-men who think the LeadSleds are for wussies, then in this one, 'It's just too powerful! Wooooo.' .44 mag would have never gotten off of the ground.
It's pretty funny in one thread, links to he-men who think the LeadSleds are for wussies, then in this one, 'It's just too powerful! Wooooo.' .44 mag would have never gotten off of the ground.
Giolli Joker
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There are two videos on that forum, the second is called: John_shooting_600_nitro
There are sure lots of Johns in the U.S.A. but he seems to be the Taffin one.
captainkirk
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600 Nitro
If you look at the posting on the other forum, the guy in the video (loosing the pistol) is not the owner, just a bystander who voluteered to shoot it. An idiot I'll grant, but not the owner, and Definitely NOT John Taffin. Secondly, The owner had Two of these beasts built, one in 50-140 Sharps and one in 600 Nitro Express (both were TC Encores-the Contender is too small). Yes-he probably spent a few to several grand on this stunt. The 50 BMG will not fit in the Encore (OK maybe it will fit- but it will be the epitome of a "single shot")
Van Horn and SSK will build some big bbls - the only question becomes what can you hang on to?
captainkirk
PS This post in no way indicates that I am in favor of spending money on said project-this guy is way over the line-accident waiting to happen (oh wait a minute, looks like it already happened...)
If you look at the posting on the other forum, the guy in the video (loosing the pistol) is not the owner, just a bystander who voluteered to shoot it. An idiot I'll grant, but not the owner, and Definitely NOT John Taffin. Secondly, The owner had Two of these beasts built, one in 50-140 Sharps and one in 600 Nitro Express (both were TC Encores-the Contender is too small). Yes-he probably spent a few to several grand on this stunt. The 50 BMG will not fit in the Encore (OK maybe it will fit- but it will be the epitome of a "single shot")
Van Horn and SSK will build some big bbls - the only question becomes what can you hang on to?
captainkirk
PS This post in no way indicates that I am in favor of spending money on said project-this guy is way over the line-accident waiting to happen (oh wait a minute, looks like it already happened...)
BloodyRAzorBlades
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lmao i know it's not right, but i laughed really hard when i watched this, he's got balls i give him that to have the courage to shoot that crazy thing
atblis
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You know what
As long as people are willing to do stupid things that amuse me, I have no problems. Pretty darn amusing if you ask me.
As long as people are willing to do stupid things that amuse me, I have no problems. Pretty darn amusing if you ask me.
MrBigStuff
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I'v seen this guy in another video----same results
I saw this guy on another video about 3-4 months ago. That time he was shooting a 500 S+W, full lengh barrel. Same thing happened. I think he is doing it for attention but got to tip my hat to attempt a 600 N.E handgun.
I saw this guy on another video about 3-4 months ago. That time he was shooting a 500 S+W, full lengh barrel. Same thing happened. I think he is doing it for attention but got to tip my hat to attempt a 600 N.E handgun.
Giolli Joker
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They're not Encores, but:
http://www.shooting-center.de/lw50bmg_e.htm
I don't know if somebody has ever shot 'em...
So he isn't Taffin... well, I was wrong.
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tuckerdog1
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I say
If you want it and can afford it. By all means, go get it.
Tuckerdog1
If you want it and can afford it. By all means, go get it.
Tuckerdog1
I haven't reacted to anything like I did to this video since I was a young boy. First, I gasped in horror. Then, when I saw that the fat man had retained his head (literally) and probably all of his chief senses, I started to laugh hysterically. Nonetheless, it did appear that he sustained a substantial laceration to his right cheek.
GJ (Italy), my first impression also was that this is John Taffin. Not only because it looks astonishingly like him, but because something like this could only happen to a gun writer!
Did you guys all hear how someone behind the camera was spouting off like he was intoxicated?
Be safe, boys! Let your women direct your testosterone-motivated impulses!
D.H.
GJ (Italy), my first impression also was that this is John Taffin. Not only because it looks astonishingly like him, but because something like this could only happen to a gun writer!
Did you guys all hear how someone behind the camera was spouting off like he was intoxicated?
Be safe, boys! Let your women direct your testosterone-motivated impulses!
D.H.
Manedwolf
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Next up is a battleship's deck gun shell fired from a handheld can with a bipod?
(And in tonight's lead story, the shooter of an experimental handgun still cannot be located. In other news, crew aboard the international space station have reported a brief sighting of an unidentified flying object that seemed to have been wearing camouflage pants and a khaki vest.)
mr.trooper
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Looks like a neat little toy...but REAL men shoot 700 Nitro Express in their handguns!
Uncle Jaque
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Machochismo!
Have yet to watch the video, but there was a video going around a while back of some Saudi guys firing a .577 T-Rex off of a bench, with amusing results.
My Pappy used to have an M-1873 "Trapdoor" Springfield cut down to horse-pistol configuration - terribly verbotten even then, and he got rid of it some 45 years ago.
He'd take some of his friends out on the back porch which overlooked a small pond and a river - he'd have one of us toss a couple of beer cans into the pond to see if the fella could hit one of 'em with a 450 gr. cast lead bullet over 65 gr. of black powder from the old beast.
Usually one round was enough.
Pappy used to proudly say of his contraband trapdoor;
"It'll seperate the men from the boys!"
Since I was but a boy at the time, I never got to fire it.
Dang!
Have yet to watch the video, but there was a video going around a while back of some Saudi guys firing a .577 T-Rex off of a bench, with amusing results.
My Pappy used to have an M-1873 "Trapdoor" Springfield cut down to horse-pistol configuration - terribly verbotten even then, and he got rid of it some 45 years ago.
He'd take some of his friends out on the back porch which overlooked a small pond and a river - he'd have one of us toss a couple of beer cans into the pond to see if the fella could hit one of 'em with a 450 gr. cast lead bullet over 65 gr. of black powder from the old beast.
Usually one round was enough.
Pappy used to proudly say of his contraband trapdoor;
"It'll seperate the men from the boys!"
Since I was but a boy at the time, I never got to fire it.
Dang!
Uncle Jaque
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OK - Watched it...
YIKES!!!
That guy took so long to squeeze that round off, I wonder if he hit anything?
...Like the backstop, at the very least, I would hope.
That would get you SO BANNED from my club's range - and rightfully so!
Much like a bazooka, that rig kills at either end.
(I wonder if they could make a "recoilless" .50BMG pistol that works like the 155MM recoilless of WW-II?)
Of course, that would tend to singe your moustache a little, wouldn't it?
YIKES!!!
That guy took so long to squeeze that round off, I wonder if he hit anything?
...Like the backstop, at the very least, I would hope.
That would get you SO BANNED from my club's range - and rightfully so!
Much like a bazooka, that rig kills at either end.
(I wonder if they could make a "recoilless" .50BMG pistol that works like the 155MM recoilless of WW-II?)
Of course, that would tend to singe your moustache a little, wouldn't it?
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Selfdfenz
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Ladies and Gentlemen,
We have an official answer to the unending THR question "What handgun for bears in ......?"
The question now becomes "How do I get the bear to stand behind me when I...?
Or perhaps "What power mirror of my 600 Nito bear pistol?"
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We have an official answer to the unending THR question "What handgun for bears in ......?"
The question now becomes "How do I get the bear to stand behind me when I...?
Or perhaps "What power mirror of my 600 Nito bear pistol?"
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