Some of mine are more utilitarian than pretty, but all are beautiful in my eyes; as are all handguns. Some of these have gone down the road since, but I enjoyed their beauty while I had them.















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well not real long range but a couple of hammers, nothing really special to look at but both shoot straight and hit hard.
300 Win Mag SS Cerakote

458 Win Mag, graphite black Cerakote.

Beautiful guns everyone.

Hey Rod, how much more does the Lott kick over the 458 win mag? Gregg, I love those micro 1911's. I carry one all the time.

Well the only lott I've built so far was on the heavy taper Bergara rifle barrel but it still kicked quite a bit harder than the Winchester on the pistol taper barrel. I have another pistol barrel I'll be rechambering in the near future and it will be in the Lott so I'll be able to compare better. The heavier lott would push back way harder than the win but the win has alot more muzzle rise and especially if you relax your grip.

My DA's:

I have several but for looks these two are my favorites.

.500 Linebaugh Long aka .500 Maximum by John Linebaugh



Ruger Old Army .50 cal by Dave Clements

I still feel that this S&W M-27 is one of the finest looking handguns I own. As I said in the original post, it has it all:
deep blue, functional grips and plenty of history....

Hank, have you taken critters with the old army and what kind of performance are you getting out of it? Before I started building my own I thought about having them build one for me now I was thinking of getting one and doing my own conversion on it.

I have taken several whitetails with it.

I get about 1250 Fps with 250 gr bullet and 50 gr Triple 7 fff. Mount Baldy was making bullets, but as I understand he no longer does. It takes special bullets as the bore is .488 to match .50 cal muzzle loader balls. Of course you could do one with a .500 or .510 bore. if you don't plan on also shooting balls.

I have found that if the bullets have lube on the side, that is not just in the grooves, recoil will cause the bullets to move forward since they are not crimped. I alway wipe the sides of my bullet as dry as I can get them and use a wonder wad behind the bullet for some extra lub.

Very cool. I like the idea of a large caliber cap and ball gun. Rod, we may need to do some talking here in the not to distant future!

284 Winchester


MOA "clone" Charger 22lr


Rear Grip BAT with 7mm WSM Barrel (McRee & Wallace Stocks) & 6.5 Leopard Barrel

6.5 Leopard (Pink Panther) XP-100


7mm SAUM XP-100


338AX XP-100


Ruger 22-45 Suppressed

Rear-Grip XP-100 6.5-284


6.5x47L MOA


7mm Rem Mag AI MOA


Seekins AR-15 Handgun


6mmx47L MOA


375 Chey-Tac Improved



Have a couple more MOA's but not good pictures.

Very nice!!

Keep 'em coming!

Here's my .500 JRH BFR:



No longer mine, but a good one nonetheless -- my old SRH in .475 Linebaugh:

Nice guns! Tell me about that BFR! What was done to it?

I've done nothing to it. It is my most accurate revolver. I am planning on performing some grip frame surgery to it (Jack Huntington's grip extension and some custom grips), and that is that. It's a great revolver!

Ernie the 284 and wildcats off that cartridge have always been amazing.Never understood why 284 didn't make it.What is the leopard caliber off of?

Now I need Whits Uberti, Eds 475, Zaco419s model 97, Schunters bisquero, jwps 475, cfishs bishunter,Rio hondos ROA, JFJs 27 and Ernies 284 or duplicates just like them. I knew this thread was going to be expensive for somebody. Almost hated to look.

What about the Max, cottonstalk??

Nope nope nope.Yours and hondos both are amazingly beautiful but I think the jrh will be sufficient.

Come on -- I know they are a bit excessive, but that's the attraction -- LOL!

Norma 270 WSM brass necked down to .264
It runs 130 Berger's between 3030 & 3100 fps (I have two 6.5 Leopard barrels).

Where are all of the FAs?? Let's see 'em!

I think some guy from Jersey named James purchased them all.

Then that guy needs to post 'em up!

Wow,there certainly is some beautiful guns here.

My FA's



Model '97 44 Special




454 Round butt 6"



The "twins". 7 1/2" 454's



My BIG 10"

Dan

Those are beautiful, Dan!! Thanks for sharing!

Any more??

And one of my double actions and the one that gets the most miles on my hip, my .454 Redhawk:

Now THAT is a 454!!! I love it....the 454 Ruger should have made.

Dan

Thanks! I agree completely!

Have posted this one before, but here are 3 generations of Colt SAA's.

Top to bottom, a 45 Colt 3rd Gen, a 44 Special 2nd, and a 38 w.c.f. 1st.



A 3rd Gen 44-40



A pair of 3rd Gen 38-40's. (My CAS guns)




Dan

Awesome Colts! Wow! Thank you for posting!

Thanks! That 44 special is the one that is on my hip these days.

Dan

Here is one that I thought was pretty nice looking but I ended up taking it back apart because it was too nasty on the recoil end to be safe. It had a factory barrel I turned the safety warning off of making it even lighter than original and I put the polished aluminum grip frame on it. This was more of an experiment in how light you could go with a single action. It was chambered in 454 and full house loads were flat out scary as the gun only weighed 2 lbs 5 oz's and with the short plow handle it would try to roll right out of my hand.

I think "scary" would be the right word for that one Rod. Whit would probably like one in each hand shooting "gunfighter" at them piggies.

Dan

Muddy I'm envious, them colts are awesome.

Your probably right, I thought I was a recoil junky until I started reading his post. My wrist are getting tired which is one reason I'm shooting my 454 more than my other bigger calibers now, but this 454 weighs a little more.

This is my personal 3 Screw 44 spcl converted from a 357.


This is my 454 with the Millet red dot.