Les Jones: Gun Links #33

February 10, 2005

Guns > Gun Links #33

Late addition: I'm selling a new in box S&W 332 TiSc snubnose .32 revolver on GunBroker. Check it out.

The High Road - Pictures of side by side and over/under shotguns, and one homemade gun that's both. (That's it to the right.) There's also a commercial four barrel shotgun, the Famars Rombo.
No Quarters - Gun sweepstakes for February.
Publicola - A detailed and lavishly-illustrated look at re-stocking an M1 Garand.
Jeff Soyer - Weekly check on the bias, with a profile of gun rights advocate Reginald Jones.
SayUncle - Review of the Seegars case challenging the D.C. gun ban.
Sandcastles and Cubicles - Ronald McDonald machine gun charity shoot in Memphis.
InstaPundit - Good and bad news on the progress in arming airline pilots.

New for 2005

Marlin - New O/U and SxS shotguns and .17 caliber rifles, and the 1894 in .32-20.
Mossberg - Mossberg is now in the bolt action rifle business.
Remington - A little bit of everything, from rifles and shotguns to ammo and accessories.
Smith &Wesson - New 1911s, DA pistols, X frame revolvers, a Jerry Miculek special, and more guns factory-equipped with Crimson Trace Laser Grips. GunBlast reviews the new S&W Model 60 5" barrel kit gun. S&W is doing great these days!
Beretta - New Storm pistol and more. Not listed but apparently shipping: the .45 ACP version of the Storm carbine. There's one for sale at Gunbroker tonight.

Gun Pic of the Week: Zeleska 600 Nitro Express Revolver - True or Not?

Via Freedome Sight, Airborne Combat Engineer has the specs on this bruiser. I'd like to get confirmation that this thing really exists. As ACE points out, there was a picture of a .50 BMG revolver picture floating around that turned out to be bogus. This seems more legitimate, but after I got burned on the German prostitution story, I'm more skeptical than usual.

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Comments

I saw one of the Beretta Storms in .45 ACP at a gun show in NH last weekend, FWIW...

Posted by: Jay G at February 10, 2005

I can't imagine how much that four barrel monster weighs. It looks to be chambered for 12 gauge. I bet all that metal will really do something to the swing as you cross a clay pigeon--what, I have no idea. I looked at the commercial four barrel and it was chambered in 28 gauge and .410. Pretty gun too. You have to request the price, which means too high for my checkbook. Oh well.

Posted by: Denise at February 10, 2005

Thanks for the link, Sir.

I've challenged my regular readers (all five of them) to prove the .600 Nitro Express revolver does, or does not, exist.

I extend that challenge to your readers.

Apparently there was a video of a guy firing it, or at least something purported to be it, but that web link has been deleted.

I'm guessing some rich guy commmissioned it. That's how the .700 nitro came to be, supposedly.

In any case, it probably exceeds a practical and healthy size for a handgun.

Posted by: ACE at February 10, 2005

In a comment at A-C-E, Daniel E. Waters (noted firearm historian) provided a link to an archived pdf article in German about the revolver, which is well illustrated. If it's a hoax, somebody sure went to a LOT of trouble to set it up.

Posted by: ACE at February 10, 2005

A Google search on the Zeliska turns up a couple pages of links. Agree with Ace. I think it's legit.

Posted by: jed at February 10, 2005

I would like to sign up for your sweepstakes.

Posted by: Connie Burton at February 16, 2005

http://www.pfeifer-waffen.at/cms/html/index.php?module=htmlpages&func=display&pid=15

at least the company has a web page

www.pfeifer-waffen.at

Posted by: x458 at April 05, 2005

I shot the .600 Nitro Express pistol (Thompson-Center Encore single shot loaded with a 1040gr bullet) and a muzzle brake.
See this link:
http://forums.nitroexpress.com/showflat.php?Cat=&Board=bigbores&Number=34889&page=0&view=collapsed&sb=5&o=&fpart=1

Kamikaze (Bob Knight)

Posted by: Kamikaze at August 16, 2005

It's most certainly real, but very expensive. Just look at http://www.pfeifer-waffen.at and check it out. Those little buggers are hand-crafted on order! AFAIK, only two are in existence, one chambered in .458 Winchester Magnum.

Posted by: elShoggotho at May 05, 2006