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Speaking of rifled shotguns, has anyone seen the Taurus raging Judge in .28 Gauge yet? It might not be a 12 Gauge but its a serious step-up from the smaller Judge in .410. The caliber is *drumroll'' .55! SO if you are using brass cases and a Slug your actually shooting a .55 cal revolver. Screw the S&W .500!
Left to right:
.410, 28 Gauge, 20 Gauge and 12 Gauge
Left to right:
.410, 28 Gauge, 20 Gauge and 12 Gauge
Thanks for the comparison shot of the different gauge shells. 👍
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The 28 gauge magnum shells shoot an ounce of lead at about 420 m/s so its not that impressive, like a low-recoil 12 gauge, the .500S&W can do more than that. However, the 28 uses a huge shell with lots of powder capacity which is loaded to very low pressures. As a hand loader you can probably make slug ammo with much higher pressure and amazing power. The 500S&W can be loaded with 700 grain projectiles, I bet you could go as high as 800 in the .55 28 Gauge. 
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- a6m5zero
Oh, no! Here we go again.You need to reload! Handloading made me realize that 99% of factory spec ammo sucks.
Do many people reload in your (shooting)community, Michael? While it's not that rare to find people who do where I'm at, it's not very popular. Most people just go out & buy.
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- race_emhard
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I'm friends with most people who visit the shooting range regularly (even though most of them are stone-old geezers ) and everyone, I mean absolutely EVERYONE handloads their own ammo.
And I'm talking about at least 35 shooters. You wouldn't stand a chance to win any of the events there without fitting your ammo to your rifle, so even new shooters are more or less forced to start hand loading if they're serious about their hobby. (Unless they have a high tolerance to frustration of course)
I'm currently giving a new young shooter some guidance who is eager to start hand loading even though he just started with his hobby of owning and shooting firearms. I tip my hat to his determination and wish I had started hand loading as early as him.
In other words: Become a member of the most holy and boundlessly powerful handloader supremacy, peasant, or perish under our accuracy like all the other insolent mortals that dared to defile shooting events with their miserable commercial ammo.
Ahem...yes.
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I'm sorry if I gave you the impression that I think that people who don't load their own ammo do not deserve to exist, I tried really hard not to. I tried to be objective about it.
Commercial ammo is absolutely fine for plinking and SHTF storage, but the time WILL come when you start thinking if it wouldn't be much cooler if you could roll your own, make ammo with the bullets you want in the cases you want and with the velocity and pressure you want, all that with 200% more accuracy which is match-worthy. The thought will haunt you whenever you fire your rifle and some time later you'll start hand loading just for the heck of it.
Thats when the time of regret and realization begins as you realize you wasted half of your life with cheap overpriced ammo produced in third world countries never using your rifle to its full potential.
Ah, there it goes again, my objectiveness.
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- a6m5zero
Oh, I got the tongue-in-cheek manner the post was presented in. 👍
I am, and have always been just a recreational shooter(at the most!), but once you start pursuing better & better accuracy, I can totally see your point on this. Only hobby/recreation I ever seriously got into was pickup basketball, and I really worked for any edge I can get to improve my game, and it wasn't even work, because I enjoyed it. It was part of the package!
Maybe someday, but I really doubt it on this one.
I am, and have always been just a recreational shooter(at the most!), but once you start pursuing better & better accuracy, I can totally see your point on this. Only hobby/recreation I ever seriously got into was pickup basketball, and I really worked for any edge I can get to improve my game, and it wasn't even work, because I enjoyed it. It was part of the package!
Maybe someday, but I really doubt it on this one.
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- HamiltonMP427
I thought the majority of you did make your own ammo, I use to have buckets full of casings myself to load 9mm and .40 cal.
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When I was 3, I used a water gun and sprayed freezing cold water up this guy's butthole when I saw him let his dog poo on our driveway
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- a6m5zero
Same.
Nice. You need to post here more by the way.
3 is a good age to do that. If I was the guy, I'd want to punch you, but I can't punch a 3 year old. Good job!
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- race_emhard
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Use cyclopentadienyl nickel nitrosyl next time. That stuff -if you can get it- is pure evil.
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- HamiltonMP427
Same.
Nice. You need to post here more by the way.
Just like the car threads, I will post here more once I have a bigger collection (to me) of guns, sorry a6m5 but thanks for the words of advice. For now I just read and learn from you guys, College saps the life out of everything like a damn harpy so i can't even go to a range with the guns I do have, and I'd love to.
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