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Originally Posted by Jim B.
They come from Israel. We used to get them in exchange for all kinds of stuff we sent over there.
Very heavy. 14" barrel, more than a foot and a half long, front to back.
They didn't have any to show me, in Cabela's gun library in Reno, when I asked to see one.
This was the eight-shot .44 version. Takes eight .44 magnum shells. Not what you would call a subtle weapon. The bullet weighs about twice as much as the .38 in a police revolver. It leaves the barrel going way faster than the speed of sound. It hits the target wih more force than anything this side of a train wreck. Not subtle at all.
Ammunition is a problem. You've got a choice. If you load up with a hard-nose bullet, it goes right through the guy you're shooting, and probably right through some other guy a hundred yards away. So you use a soft-nose bullet and it blows a hole out of your guy about the size of a garbage can.
Your choice.
Good for collectors. This would never be a service piece. No police department would authorize the use of a cannon like this on the job.
Way too heavy.
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In the late 1990s I owned a Desert Eagle .357 auto and sold it after a year. Very heavy and jammed periodically using American ammo, had to use the expensive Israeli stuff.
Went back to a Ruger Security-Six wheel gun 
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