No it isn't trying to be a rifle. It's just trying to be a flat shooting revolver capable of shooting longer distances without aiming it like a mortar. I don't consider the 200 gr load any more than advertising hype and a good varmint load. I prefer 300 grainers doing around 1800 fps.
You miss the point. Lightweight bullets at high velocities is an attempt to attain rifle killing power (small, fast vs big, heavy) out of a handgun. I agree on the 200gr load but others tout it as the best thing since sliced bread. It offers impressive numbers but I'd rather use a heavier bullet.
The trajectory sets it well apart from the .44 mag and the .45 Colt, and less from the .454 and the .480.
And as I already said, out to 125yds, it doesn't matter. A .300Mag might shoot flatter than a .30-30 but if you never shoot beyond 150yds, what does it matter?
You my friend may be deluding yourself into thinking you know what defines a handgun to everyon else in the world.
Not at all. The handgun's sole purpose is to be smaller, lighter and handier than a rifle. More easily carried on one's person and readily available when a longarm may be cumbersome and impractical. A handgun as long and heavy as an X-frame defies the very definition of a handgun. Just like XP-100's and Contenders, they were invested to minimize the disadvantages inherent in all handguns, while still "handguns" only in a technical sense.
I don't feel I need to condescend those that do. Why is it that you feel this need.
That is not what I am doing, nor do I have a 'need' to. I am simply offering a differing perspective and consider this to be valid, legitimate discussion. Like I said, FOR THOSE WHO ARE RESEARCHING THIS SUBJECT, THEY NEED TO HEAR BOTH SIDES. I don't care what anybody uses but lots of people go into a gun shop looking to get into handgun hunting come out believing they need a cannon to kill deer. To be honest, my posts are not for you. They're for the undecided. There's no reason for you to be defensive.
The .460 does this but for some reason you are against it. I just don't understand.
Like I've said a million times, because a standard cartridge will get the job done in a smaller, lighter, more portable and cheaper to feed package. Again, I don't begrudge anyone a choice that differs from mine. I just think decisions should be made with all information available and that is what I am trying to provide but you X-frame fans get defensive whenever that choice is questioned. If you
want to hunt deer with a .460, you won't get an argument from me. Just don't go into it thinking you
need that much for deer.
Maybe it's because I hunt deer bigger than Bambi at ranges farther than 50 yards.
There's not a critter alive that the .460 can take but the .44Mag cannot. Again, range is its only advantage.
I think the problem is buckhorn didn't illustrate that he was talking about two different weight guns very well.
He should've made that stipulation. X-frame vs Freedom Arms, he's probably right.