Desert Eagle

[learn2shoot]

Yeterday I was at the range with a few friends. A guy a few lanes down was firing a small cannon (.50 Desert Eagle). Curosity got the better of me and I walked over and asked if I could fire a shot. After a little gentle remedial reminders to not anticipate and be smooth on the trigger, he let me fire his gun. His gun was ported and I must say the recoil was nothing I compared to what I anticipated. I was thinking I would need to ice my wrist last night. I have a Taurus 605 .357 with a 2 inch barrel and that gun has much more felt recoil than the DE.

I am now considering at some point buying a DE and getting it ported. However, I am restriced to two guns a year, so.... It might be a while.

 

[Reed1911]

We have a like new in box Desert Eagle in .50 AE caliber. This pistol has been shot very little and is in almost perfect condition. The only marks are a small scratch on the scope and a very light scratch on the muzzle of the chrome barrel. This pistol set-up comes with the box, the pistol in brush chrome finish 6” barrel and a polished blue 10” with a mounted and sighted Leupold VX-III 2.5-8x 32mm obj. 1” tube., 4 mags (1 chrome, 1 brushed, and 2 blue). This is an Excellent set-up for anyone thinking about serious handgun hunting, With the ability to launch a .500” 325g bullet at 1450FPS (1517Ft-Lbs) from the 6” barrel and 1620FPS (1894Ft-Lbs) from the 10” barrel, You will be set-up for just about anything in North America. Due to the construction of the pistol, recoil is more of a straight back push than a muzzle jump, it allows you to quickly back on target for a follow-up shot. Due to the way these pistols are made, this one can be converted to .44Mag, .41 Mag, .440 Corbon, and .357/50 (wildcat) with just a barrel swap and mag, adding a bolt for the it can be converted to .357 Mag as well. Magnum Research is very well known for extremely high quality products and the Desert Eagle pistol show this. Both barrels are polygonal rifiled which lasts longer and stays accurate longer than standard land and groove. This package ran 2350.00 to put together, at 2100.00 it is a very good deal. Please do not hesitate to ask any questions or for more and higher res. pictures. S/H will be a flat 25.00 to your FFL

 

[ready4shtf]

It must have been the porting. My .50 recoils like a beast. A double tap is out of the question.

 

[TimboKhan]

Here is a question for you... Why in gods name would you want this gun?
Other than having a big beast of a gun to show off, I just can't wrap my mind around the practicality of a 2000 dollar BBQ gun. If your going to hunt with it or something, it seems like there are better alternatives. Just my opinion, but I have never understood the allure to these beasts...

 

[Deer Hunter]

For the hell of it. I ask people the same question. A friend of mine is about to purchase an S&W 500. I asked her (yes her) "Why would you want that thing?" She replies "Just for the hell of it, and cause I like it."

Good enough for me.

 

[Reed1911]

Here is a question for you... Why in gods name would you want this gun?

Because prior to the .50 GI it was the only auto handgun in 1/2", and it is still the only auto handgun in 1/2" worthy of hunting with.

Is it expensive? Yup. Does that have anything to do with its capabilities? nope. Are they accurate? yup. Do they look nice? to me, yup. do they make sense to you? Appearentally not, but that is all just choice.

Practical? in some ways. No less practical than my 10" .444 Marlin, no I'm not a recoil hog, and yes it is darn accurate.

 

[GrOuNd_ZeRo]

This gun is popularized by games like Counterstrike and the movies like the Matrix.

I do think it's an attractive gun but not something i'd considder for anything but maybe handgun hunting or bear defense.

It might be effective for home-defense, when you stare down the bore of a .50cal I don't think you'd want to mess around...

 

[GregGry]

I have thought about buying a desert eagle, for numerous reasons:

#1 it looks good
#2 Its unique, not to many .50 caliber semi-autos around
#3 its the only pistol I have ever held that had a big enough grip for me
#4 It can be used as a show peice (and come on, what decent gun collection doesn't have a show peice?

 

[Bob R]

My wife has one. She likes it, and that is all that matters. Does it get shot much? Not really, but I have a lot of guns that don't get out as much as they should.

She saw it, she wanted it, she got it.

That is really all the reason I needed.

bob

 

[cracked junior]

another reason why to own one. if your willing to carry it with you. you can do the crocidile dundee line. where he and that lady are about to get mugged with a knife. and he says you call that a knife, this is a knife. well if you get mugged with a 9mm. you can say you call that a pistol, this is a pistol.

 

[TimboKhan]

eh, I can smell what all of you are cooking, and like I said, it was just my opinion. Still, thats a whole lot of money to pay for something just for the hell of it, although Cracked junior seems to have the best idea. I might actually spend the dough to get to run that line on someone...

 

[Captain America]

All that power in one beautiful package. A gun instantly recognizable and if there were any gun to have for the hell of it, that baby would be it! I say go for it!

 

[Onmilo]

We have more people buying the .50 caliber Desert Eagles than the .44s for the last couple of years.
Their reason is basically the same as what has been stated in previous posts.
We can't hunt deer with semi auto hanguns here in Illinois but we can hunt coyote, fox, and groundhogs with them and shooters just love the idea of owning something huge in caliber.
I bet the majority of these hanguns are never sighted on a living game animal and the majority of shooting is done for pleasure of hearing the blast and feeling the recoil more than anything else.

I myself am praying that the lawmakers come to their senses and allow semi auto handguns for deer, even if we have to limit the magazine capacity I am OK with that because I have my eye on a black oxide MK XIX 10" .44 magnum.

 

[EddieCoyle]

Here is a question for you... Why in gods name would you want this gun?

A very similar question was asked of me when I showed up at the range with my brand new S&W 500 4". My answer?

"Because I can."

 

[learn2shoot]

Here is a question for you... Why in gods name would you want this gun?

Because I don't have one yet.

 

[Soybomb]

It would serve absolutely no practical purpose for me, but it seems like it would be alot of fun to shoot. Oddly enough the same reason I'd like to have a s&w 500 one day.