Peace Brother! I am me and you are you and personal liberty with your guns are yours. I am into what I need and nothing more. But in time I will try full-blown 500 Smith and Wesson MAGNUM with a 525 grain wide-nose gas-check bullet at upwards of 1500 fps at the muzzle.
That is 500 Maximum territory with a straight .500 caliber bullet versus the .511 caliber of the 500 Maximum. But a 440 grain at 1350 fps ought to suffice for a pig.
LOL! I too come in peace, Jeff! I spent a lot of intimate time with a .500 Maximum, and a 525 at 1,500 fps is WAY over pressure, in the 50,000 psi range and not good at all for a Maximum which essentially a stretched Blackhawk. Normal hot loads run right around 38,000 psi. You should be able to handily beat that in your .500 Smith if you so desire! And those revolvers were built with that 62,000 psi ceiling in mind.
