Long range revolver

[Ten Mile Knives]

If I have a revolving rifle, are there any revolve-compatible cartridges that would be capable of hunting deer-sized game out to 300 yds. or less without significant MPBR loss? I am referring to straight-walled cases which do not setback in the chambers of revolvers, but I want one that can be useful beyond a few hundred feet.

 

[Corpral_Agarn]

Hornady Lever-evolution?

300 yards seems like a push for a pistol cartridge?

I'm not expert on hunting. You might find more responses in the hunting forum, IDK

 

[Ten Mile Knives]

Hornady Lever-evolution?

300 yards seems like a push for a pistol cartridge?

I'm not expert on hunting. You might find more responses in the hunting forum, IDK

I was more thinking in terms of some of the longer-cased cartridges that could work in a revolver rifle. maybe something like .460 S&W Magnum.

 

[NeroM]

Long Range Revolver - is an oxymoron.

 

[Walkalong]

Tell that to Jerry

 

[bangswitch]

Even something like .500 S&W Magnum wouldn't be guaranteed lethal at 300 yards; doesn't matter that Jerry M can hit targets 1000 yards away with a revolver, the bullets have a poor BC, a slow MV for their size, and the SD doesn't give as good penetration as a rifle bullet of the same weight. I don't know if you could even get a revolver rifle in anything bigger than .44 Magnum, and they're good out to 100 yards, maybe 125 as a hunting round.
Why in the world do you want a revolving rifle, anyway? About as practical as a screen door on a submarine.

 

[35 Whelen]

It's easy to get wrapped up in the hype of the power of these large revolver cartridges. Yes, they are very powerful, where handgun cartridges are concerned. But to put the power of such cartridges into perspective, the 500 S&W Magnum, for example, is slightly less powerful than the ancient 50-90 Sharps, which would hardly be considered a long range cartridge.

35W

 

[Riomouse911]

That range is TC Contender or bolt action handgun country.

A .460 S&W is a powerful and fast round that will stretch revolver ranges to the extreme, but for ranges around 300 yards I’d be single-shotting it myself.

Stay safe.

 

[Armorer 101]

In our annual feather match, we shot big bore silhouette turkeys out to 300 meters. I used my El Darado 10” gun in 357 Super Mag with 200gr bullets for the revolver entry. Of course in the IHMSA there is now Long Range, which is the rifle course, out to 500 yards, shot with handguns. So there are those that need to and whom do the seeming impossible, daily. The Super Mag guns were made by Dan Wesson, Seville and El Darado, perhaps others. Some call the Super Mag a Max.

However the real problem for a revolving rifle is the cylinder gap and the pressure developed by the most powerful revolver cartridges, like 50 K. The revolving rifle has a forearm designed for a hand hold. The reason the revolving rifle disappeared was gap blow by of unburnt powder granules. Put a protector on and the powder may then glance off and blow back in your face.
The easiest and cheapest solution is a single shot chambered for a super mag. David White does these conversions on the H&R. He has some interesting data on his web site.

 

[JTHunter]

Tell that to Jerry

From where that "POI" was in the 8 o'clock position, I wonder if it wasn't lead "splatter" that popped the balloon. I saw no POI where the balloon was actually placed.
The point remains however that he DID hit the big steel plate at almost 3/4 of a mile with a 9mm. That right there is incredible !

 

[Rexster]

One can search for the Elmer Keith account of hitting a fleeing, wounded elk at a very extended range, and then for articles by such writers as Ross Seyfried and John Taffin, discussing that shot. Of course, MUCH hold-over is required for such shots.

Notably, regarding the ethics of attempting a 600-yard shot, with a revolver, at a game animal, Elmer Keith was the guide, not the hunter, and he was trying to keep an already-wounded elk from being lost, and perhaps wasted, in challenging terrain.

 

[Rexster]

My only desire for a revolving rifle would be in a historic context, or perhaps as a “rule-book” firearm due to some quirky rule or law. I have burned a finger that got too close to a .357 Magnum revolver’s barrel-cylinder gap, and, well, that brings to mind the saying about children and hot stoves.

 

[Rexster]

From where that "POI" was in the 8 o'clock position, I wonder if it wasn't lead "splatter" that popped the balloon. I saw no POI where the balloon was actually placed.
The point remains however that he DID hit the big steel plate at almost 3/4 of a mile with a 9mm. That right there is incredible !

That is how I saw it. His feat was hitting the plate, at that distance. It was flying lead fragments that popped the balloon. Just hitting that plate was amazing; I would not expect that balloon, itself, to be directly pierced by the bullet.