This memory comes to mind..........
It had to been at least 20 years ago.
The Mrs. and I were visiting some friends at their cabin north of Ely, MN.
This guy pulls up to join us.
I knew him but didn't know him.
He sez, "Look what my wife bought me for my birthday."
The biggest (insert cuss word here) revolver I had ever seen in person.
A 500 S & W.
"Ya want to shoot it?" he says to me.
"Well, yeah" I say.
Someone had a half liter? plastic bottle, put some water in it and tossed it into the minnow pond.
My first shot must have launched that target 20+ feet into the air!
The recoil and concussion from that first shot sold me after emptying the revolver.
I gotta get me one!
Well, that was not affordable back then.
Then S&W came out with the 460...
the rest is history............
Yup, there is a S&W 460 in my safe!