Nice to see 500s coming down in price!!

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Jeffro250

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After the release of the 460, ive noticed an average price drop of 50-100 dollars in our local shops on the 500 mag....looks like high time to pick one of these badboys up. The 460s are selling like hotcakes at 1200 bucks a peice!!! :eek: :eek:
 
Never ceases to amaze e that isolated attempts for a shop to gouge on a new gun indicate a universal price structure.

We are selling all the 460s we can get at $999 or so a pop. Just got two more yesterday. Big ones

WildgimmesomeAlaska
 
500's are about 800 (+/- 50$) around here (have been for a little while) and the 460's are like 1000-1200 depending on where you go...

The bullets for the 500 though... :eek:, saw factory ammo (hornady) for $49! Definately a reloading gun, maybe someday I will buy one, just for the wowness but by then who knows what we will have!
 
I have seen two .460's VERY NICE guns....

One for $930.00 and the other was $1,025. Both in KY... Give them time they will come down.

I picked up a used .454 Casull - Stainless Raging Bull for $350 not to long ago and they were $700-$800 at one time.
 
I would think that after time the people wanting a 500 would diminish.I just can't see this as a high sales gun maybe at first but soon the well would start to dry up.A 500 for me, no thanks 44 mag is about as high as I would like to go :p
 
.444 and .45/70 in BFR, I think might have more boom? I dunno I never fired any of them... I'll still wait on the 500 though, just too much to buy ammo, even a pain for me to reload with not having much time. Call me lazy but I am used to factory ammo in everything except my .44 mag and .22-250 where I roll my own.
 
I got a chance to shoot both a 500 Mag and 460 Mag on Saturday loaded with Corbon ammo! WHOA!!!! is all I need to say. These handgun loads are beasts! The 400gr 500 S&W Mag Corbon loads are a handful, and give around 2500 ft/lbs of energy!!!! The 460 even though I do not remember the energy that it gave, though those Corbon Pro-Hunter loads, seemed rather powerful indeed!

They both make the 44mag's energy of around 940 ft/lbs seem rather weak, something like a 22LR compared to a 44mag... :eek:

Not something I would want unless I was hunting some dangerous game, like rhino, elefant, or grizzly..... But they are fun to shoot atleast once.
 
Agreed,they are beasts. But in a good way. :) I really liked the 460XVR. I like the idea of being able to shoot relatively cheap .454 out of it too for general practice. I gotta get one of those! The 4" 500 wasn`t brutal at all with 500 Specials but the ammo is still big bucks. Marcus
 
The 500 and 460 both really are more for handloaders. I can't imagine owning a 500 and NOT handloading for it. I bought my 500 at a gunshow about 10 months after they came out and paid 825 for it. I just recently sold my SRH 454 and want to buy a 460 when the prices come down a little. I mainly just want it for shooting 454 Casulls. My 454 load that I used in the SRH was a 300 grain Hornady XTP-Mag sitting on top of 31 grains of 296. I'll bet that load fired from a 460 would be pretty tame...it definitely wasn't tame in the SRH! I'll bet within a year the 460s will be down in the mid to upper 700 dollar range. I hope so, at least.
 
im not sure if im intersted in a 460 other than a 4inch model not sure why ..

I prefer the 7.5inch barrel of my SRH vers the 8 3/8ths of a 44 model 29 i just dont like that extra lenght like my 454 SRH in 7.5 bout would like a 6 or a 4 inch
 
We're selling new 460s at $965.

I seem to recall that we've moved a few used plain-Jane 8 3/8" 500s at ~$750.

I hate dusting guns. ;)
 
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