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Truly an insane handgun. Here's the email that was attached when a friend sent this to my dad:
"You may have to watch Recoil twice. Try to follow the gun. This video is
basically a "show and tell" custom built on a Thompson Encore (fancy
version of the Thompson Contender). The Caliber... 600 Nitro Express.
that's right...an elephant gun round in a handgun. The story goes that
the guy that built it is some kind of custom gun maker, and built this
as an exhibition piece. He takes it to the range with him just to show
it off, and the big guy that shot it (in the video) had been bugging the
builder to let him shoot it. Now think about this...only until fairly
recently (early-mid '80's IIRC) the 600 Nitro Express was hands down the
biggest, nastiest, hardest hitting, and heaviest recoiling weapon you
could buy. It was designed for one simple purpose...to knock an elephant
flat on his butt. IMO, it was really built as an exhibition piece for
guys "compensating"...this cartridge is known for breaking collarbones,
arms, shoulders...of the shooter! Think about this, in the gun world
they use what is termed as a "recoil index" to kind of give prospective
buyers an idea of what a gun kicks like.

A .30-06 gets a rating of a 1.0, which for many people is about the
limit of what they can shoot multiple rounds thru comfortably. A 243 is
rated at like a .4, a .270 was like a .8, etc. The ..600 Nitro Express
is rated at 9.4...9.4 times more punishing power than a 30-06. Now watch
the video..."

Channel: Sports
Uploaded: May 25, 2006 at 12:39 pm
Author: oneatom12

Length: 00:01:02
Rating: 4.77
Views: 1325499

Tags: insane most powerful handgun gun

Video Comments:
MIGHTYSAMINYOURFACE (November 18, 2008 at 9:34 am)
useless
notknown (November 18, 2008 at 9:28 am)
It's a good thing he aimed.
20binyon (November 17, 2008 at 8:13 pm)
hahahahahahahahahahaha. lucky he didn't put the scope to his eye. if he was getting mugged he would be better off handing this gun to his mugger!!!!
LewisCeeThatsMe (November 17, 2008 at 7:47 pm)
whats the point in this gun? no-one can use it hahaa :P
viniecp92 (November 17, 2008 at 4:31 pm)
wtf!!?? a hand gun with a scope hahahahahaha LOL
commando545 (November 17, 2008 at 6:23 am)
hahahahahahahahahaahahahahahahahahaahahahahahHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!!

bye bye gun
pachanga777 (November 16, 2008 at 11:19 pm)
hahahahahhahaha
firwehuman44 (November 16, 2008 at 7:33 pm)
lol did he evn aim? lol
DerrickForLife (November 16, 2008 at 1:12 pm)
60 cal
DerrickForLife (November 16, 2008 at 1:11 pm)
check out the description