My dad sent this to me this morning and I feel comforted to know that if I ever have to stop a speeding train, or maybe an enraged pack of blue whales I now have the ability to possess a hand gun for those exact situations. I totally intend to get one once I save up the $16k and find a holster big enough. I can’t imagine what shooting that thing is like.
Good grief, that looks like ammo for something like a .303. I wonder if it can be fired from a catcher’s mitt?
If you scroll down, there’s a clip of a guy firing a single-shot version.
Well, he gets to pull the trigger, anyway.
*Nitro Express in firearms terms applies to a cartridges charge or powder that in this instance is made by mixing nitroglycerine with the already explosive gunpowder to make a nitrocellulose compound which is then dried and becomes many times more explosive than the original gunpowder.
With a Bullet Weight of 900 grains and a Muzzle Velocity 1950 fps, it produces Muzzle Energy of 7591 ft/lbs or 3½ tons !! the Pfeifer- Zeliska .600 Nitro Express Magnum is 8 times more powerful than a Smith and Wesson.44 magnum and 3 times more powerful than the Smith and Wesson .50 Magnum.*
Gee, all that for only $40 a cartridge!
As handguns are primarily used for self defense, I wonder what one would need a weapon like that to defend against. It looks like it could stop pretty much anything up to and including light trucks.
Actually that’s the same gun. It’s a five shot revolver being fired single action. I’d think that once would be enough.
No, the gun in the video is the Thomson Contender.
Looks almost as big as the one the Joker used in the first Batman flick.
a rogue Transformer?
I guess you could use it to defend against that enraged maneating elephant.
If you pay extra, can you have “Jesus Christ is in Heaven Now” inscribed on the side?
A speeding train, two blue whales, a light truck and an enraged maneating elephant.
Then you could reload.
Let’s not forget that in the USA at least, anything over .50 caliber requires special paperwork from the BATF and all that is involved with that!
As a gun-disliker (not quite a hater, but a strong dislike), all I can say is…I want one!
I would never buy any rounds, but just the sight of that thing would be enough of a threat deterrent against home invasion. And I’m sure it makes an impressive club, if needed.
Me personally, the only practical use I can think of for this thing is self-defense on hikes in bear country. That’s the general use for most large-frame revolvers anymore. That and big game hunting for people who prefer tracking/movement skill to shooting skill (the latter use rifles from longer ranges).
I’d give at least a 30% chance, given the stories I’ve heard from North American big game hunters, that a grizzly or Kodiak bear would still take more than one shot to stop.
If you can afford the gun, you can afford the ammo. Just the thing to have if you need to vaporize an annoying, yapping mutt. 
Has no one figured out that the giant gun IS a transformer? It’s obviously Megatron!!
Slight nitpick, but it’s not everything over 50 cal, historical stuff is excepted.
As long as such things exist, the world is still a wonderful place.
13 pounds? My [DEL]sniper[/DEL] varmint rifle is barely 13 pounds.
That’s child toy. That’s what real men carry 