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- Feb 26, 2009
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.50AE, .44 magnum, and .357 magnum with 6” and 10” barrels in all three calibers. Unfired, with mags and paperwork in a heavy duty stainless steel case. This is gonna be fun!
Well that must've been a good chunk of change..50AE, .44 magnum, and .357 magnum with 6” and 10” barrels in all three calibers. Unfired, with mags and paperwork in a heavy duty stainless steel case. This is gonna be fun! View attachment 383524
Me neither, that's very cool indeed.Wow! I had no idea you could change barrels. How cool!
You picked up a Desert Eagle? Was it heavy?
Very nice, my friend.
Very cool.
Can you shoot .44 special and .38 special out of it with the .44 magnum and .357 magnum barrels, or would you need to get and install softer recoil spring(s) for it to cycle the lower powered ammo?
So I guess you'd just need another barrel with appropriately sized chamber and gas port, if they are available...The deagle is gas operated. Which is why a barrel and mag swap is all that is needed to change calibers.... different gas ports. So I doubt you could cycle .38s through it, not enough gas.
Plus I believe it headspaces off the case mouth. So even if it short cycles, you could fire a .38 or a .44spl but you'd start wearing the throat and/or get some weird marks on the breech face.....kind of like putting a .380 through a 9mm or putting a.40 through a 10mm
So I guess you'd just need another barrel with appropriately sized chamber and gas port, if they are available...
I read a write-up years ago on the DE .50. The shooter/writer kept getting nailed in the forehead with the spent brass. The harder he hunkered down on the gun, the more consistently he got nailed. I though, well, I'm gonna pass on that.I picked up a desert eagle once. And I put it right back down, lol.