re: Ammo cartridges that have no purpose

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It slings very long skinny bullets that penetrate well.

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It also carries an odd amount of energy. It surprised my how much a 150 grain bullet is supposed to have.

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Yea but it's a punk round in a .300 mag culture.

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It's also metric as frick which doesn't help.

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While I'm not a fan of those enormous pistol cartridges like the .500. I have shot the .460 and it's not nearly as bad as I thought it would be. Would be a pretty good pistol to have in brown bear country if you weren't wanting to tote a long gun IMHO. You can actually shoot it without blowing your head off with a second shot on recoil. And good god does it deliver some damage.

Along with the .460

They have a unique place with smith x frames

Gigantic arse rounds that are half-arse portable

I wish marlin would chamber the .460 in a lever gun. I'd buy it in a heartbeat.

The x frames are big.

But you can shoot it with one hand which you cannot do with a lever gun.

Marlin is fricking stupid for not making lever guns in .500 and .460

It should have been the first thing on the drawing board. Those pistol rounds smoke the old school .35-70 loads.

Yea they are fricking huge revolvers.

They have a place though. There isn't much better for shooting a polar bear off your face than a snub nose .500 smith x frame

S&W factory bear protection kit

I agree completely about those needing to be in lever guns. They're WAYYYYYY better than most of the rounds in them nowadays.

The .460 I shot really did surprise me how easy it was to shoot. You want to shoot multiple rounds of something that will kill the frick out of anything on the planet with one hand really fast... it will do it nicely. But like I said, if you are letting a noob shoot it, you have to warn them about how to not blow your own head off the first time because I've seen that 'accidental' second round go off a couple of times now on these high recoil frickers and that's dangerous as hell. You have to get used to shooting it.

And yes they are highly portable compared to a long gun. No comparison. Put it in a shoulder holster and you're fine. Yeah, it's huge in that X frame but it has to be.

Seriously though, if you get the chance to shoot a .460, just do it. You guys know I'm a light and fast kind of guy when it comes to bullets but that thing will make a believer out of you if you are bear country. frick a bear. Knock his dick in the dirt like it ain't shite.

I agree completely. I was always a .35 Rem in those lever actions kinda guy back in the day. If you're gonna go lever action, heavy bullets beat fast simply because of the ranges involved. Not that these are fast. They are. But they're big as hell on top of it.

Truly devastating terminal ballistics.

Plus it answers the mouthbreather 1911 mantra of "I shoot a .45 cuz they don't make a .46" kinda idiot in all caps with a bunch of exclamation points.