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Dookieman12@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

I’ve often struggled to determine the use case for these kinds of guns. If you’re hunting, surely a long gun in the same cartridge would be a better choice. If only for emergency defense against large animals while hiking, surely a revolver with a slightly smaller cartridge would be worth having five shots instead of one before having to reload, right?

Besides being a cool conversation piece or range toy, I’m not really sure what I’m supposed to do with something like this.

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sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Quite literally, such a weapon only exists for you to flex with, that you can fire it and remain in control of the weapon, maybe even hit the intended target as well!

Its… this thing only exists because of dares.

There are more practical weapons for every use case that might even possibly qualify as uses this thing could have.

… I guess unless you are an actual WH40K spacemarine.

Yeah, revolvers are the classic ‘deep in the woods - wildlife defense handgun’… but 10mm and 5.7x28 semi autos are gaining popularity there.

A long gun in the same caliber as this would be an anti-materiel rifle… as in, designed to disable jeeps, power transformers, parked helicopters.

You are not going to have a fun time hauling a 30 lb war crime machine with you, into the woods.

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justdaveisfine@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
I think the only advantage these big bore single shot pistols have is that they’re relatively cheap compared to a revolver.

Not a situation I’d cheap out on but I could see someone doing it.

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- Dookieman12@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  I just looked up the Rossi Brawler and it’s only $335, putting it around half the price as your cheapest .44 mag. I didn’t know they were that cheap, but it makes sense given the simple design. You can get it chambered in .300 blackout and it has a threaded barrel, so that’s pretty cool.
  
  That’s still only a little bit cheaper than an AR-15, which is going to be more effective at just about everything, so it’s probably still not something I would go for, but I think I’m seeing the appeal now. If you just gotta be able to put 5.56, .45 colt, or whatever down range, and that’s all you can afford, it sure beats nothing.
  
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