S&W 500 J Frame April Fool’s Joke

[Pat Riot]

Apparently Smith & Wesson has a funny bone.
I didn’t post this as an April Fool’s joke. It is funny, but can you imagine what shooting something like this would be like?
I can tell you I wouldn’t shoot it even if given one.
A nice guy at the range one day offered to let me shoot his full sized S&W 500. I thanked him and politely declined.

So, would you shoot something like this April Fool’s gag?

 

[ontarget]

Uuuuhhhh.....
No thanks, not today or any other day.

 

[Hooda Thunkit]

I won't shoot it, but I'll watch you shoot it.

Or, I would, if it existed.

 

[THEWELSHM]

Good for fixing flinch,

Thewelshm

 

[ChiefTJS]

Nope!

 

[sparkyv]

Heck, I wouldn't even shoot that J-frame in .357 Mag!

 

[Hooda Thunkit]

Heck, I wouldn't even shoot that J-frame in .357 Mag!

I have a 640-1. I have shot full house 357 Mag in it, but not more than a couple cylinders at a time. I'm getting too old for that sort of fun.

When I carry it, it is stoked with hot 38 Spl.

 

[Pat Riot]

Heck, I wouldn't even shoot that J-frame in .357 Mag!

I owned a S&W model 60 Pro that I fired often with 158 grain .357 magnum when I first bought it.
Stupid, stupid, stupid on my part.

 

[Hartkopf]

I wouldn’t shoot that with your hand and wrist.

 

[bigpower491]

Ouch

 

[fxvr5]

I'll take two. For double-fisted fun!

 

[Pat Riot]

I understand the front sight is rubber to assist in bouncing the barrel off your forehead after firing.

 

[NorthBorder]

It makes you wonder how many fools are lining up to get one.

 

[bigpower491]

The frame and cylinder are forged from an extraterrestrial material known as fictionite, and can handle pressure normally found in a small nuclear device.......

 

[.308 Norma]

It's seems like it would be the perfect answer to the "What gun to carry for bears while backpacking?" question. I mean, it wouldn't weigh much (not counting the ammo) and it would probably be powerful enough to stop a grizzly. Of course, it might do more damage to the backpacker than the grizzly would have, but that's beside the point.

 

[ahutch71]

My Model 69 is as close to that as I’d ever want to get. It’s the only gun of mine that actually made me bleed after one cylinder - tore the webbing next to my thumb right open. Glad the 500J is a gag…although hand surgeons wouldn’t mind seeing it go to market. Good for business!

 

[Jonny2guns]

I have a 640 pro 357mag, now I'm gonna have to go shoot it with 357mag just to see how bad it is. I do have bad arthritis in my dominant hand, but I have to at least try it.
I do have a hand doctor, already had 3 surgerys supposed to have a 4th.

 

[Spats McGee]

Aka “The Wrist-Fuser 500.”

 

[CajunBass]

Heck, I wouldn't even shoot that J-frame in .357 Mag!

I'll do you one better. I don't like shooting 38's in a J-frame. Some are better than others, but I don't like any of them.

To answer the question, not just no, but.....

 

[usaral63]

Brings to mind the video of the middle eastern type shooting an elephant gun! Surely the Smith would've smacked him in the head !

 

[WisBorn]

I want one

 

[WisBorn]

Of course I like one of these also
The Bond Arms does have some weight to dampen the recoil. I doubt that the 500 J frame does.

And I wonder why my hands hurt everyday

 

[Carl N. Brown]

Guy at the outdoor club range had a full sized .500 S&W and offered to let me shoot it. I mentally prepped myself to do what I try to do with my .40 and .45: hold on but don't fight the recoil let it happen then recover. I hit a large rock on the 55yd (50m) bank cut on the hillside. I thought awesome. He said go ahead. I shot again and hit the rock. I told him awesome and returned the gun. I declined his offer to shoot the whole cylinder, saying that ammo must be expensive. Thought to myself if. I tried a third shot I was gonna flinch like crazy and miss the rock. Maybe miss the bank. Or the mountain.

That 500 J frame (if it's real and not April Fool) is easily half the weight of a full sized 500 revolver. Half the weight, roughly twice the recoil velocity. Kinetic energy equals mass times the square of the velocity. That 500 J frame would have recoil energy on the wrist transplant end of the scale. Not quite four times the recoil energy of a proper weight 500 revolver, but too much for me.

 

[WisBorn]

Recoil and Recoil tolerance?

A close friend had a S&W 500 with a 8 3/8" barrel that was factory ported. At something like 72 ounces it was very manageable.
He also had a 480 Ruger Super Redhawk. I shot it before he had it ported. I thought it was manageable, but he didn't like the recoil. After porting he loved it.
The Freedom Arms 454 needed to be ported. It was a painful experience.

My S&W 69 44mag with stout loads is uncomfortable. My ported Taurus 415 41mag is a little more manageable. As my Taurus 605 357mag in a steel frame is ok.

None of the handguns are something that I would want to shoot hundreds of rounds through during a single range session....

 

[1KPerDay]

I have a 640 pro 357mag, now I'm gonna have to go shoot it with 357mag just to see how bad it is. I do have bad arthritis in my dominant hand, but I have to at least try it.
I do have a hand doctor, already had 3 surgerys supposed to have a 4th.

The steel frame J .357s are not fun but they’re nowhere near as nasty as the 340/340PD with aluminum or scandium frames. They are truly painful.