• ProbablyUnwise@anarchist.nexus
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    13 hours ago

    I am seriously skeptical that that is a real gun that could fire without exploding, let alone you being able to hang on to it if it didn’t. you’re certainly not getting more than a couple shots max out of that before it and your hand is a mangled mess.

    • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      11 minutes ago

      Like I said elsewhere… I think that’s a 50 BMG round.

      … there are reasons why you almost never see break action / top break revolvers and pistols these days.

      Mainly, they do not tend to do well with high chamber pressure.

      A break action 50 BMG pistol?

      That’s an overly expensive hand grenade, with an unreliable arming mechanksm, imo

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        9 hours ago

        Comparing .45-70 to .50 BMG is like comparing .22lr to .223 Remington.

        But this is a 12 gauge pistol with a .50 cal in it.

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      8 hours ago

      Your hand might take a beating, but the gun would be fine. Generally speaking, assuming there are no microfractures from manufacturing defects, if the steel and the design can withstand one shot, it can withstand tens of thousands. Assuming, of course, you perform the required PMCS and don’t fire so quickly as to overheat the steel.