The Desert Eagle automatic - PeachParts Mercedes-Benz Forum

Jim B. · #1 08-01-2010, 04:35 AM

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.

strelnik · #2 08-01-2010, 06:38 AM

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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.

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

Skippy · #3 08-01-2010, 06:58 AM

I'm not really sure what they were thinking when they designed them. I'm told they are decent for handgun hunting, but I think they're really more of a novelty piece.

Mike D · #4 08-01-2010, 07:13 AM

To quote a line from "Blazing Saddles" regarding the use of a Desert Eagle, "Land grab - see Snatch" which leads to the movie, "Snatch" in which one of the heavies' weapon of choice is the Desert Eagle. Great scene in the cafe where the hapless "good guys" attempt to apply pressure to the heavy using replica pieces.

aklim · #5 08-01-2010, 08:58 AM

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Originally Posted by strelnik

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

Wierd. I had a MkI 44 mag and it has never jammed. Only problem it had was with one brand of ammo where it wouldn't cycle the next round. If there is one gun I regret selling, that was it. I could leave the 6 in for home defense and switch to the 10 in for hunting. Scope was already mounted on the 10 in and sighted in perfectly. No resight necessary.

aklim · #6 08-01-2010, 09:15 AM

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Originally Posted by Jim B.

Very heavy. 14" barrel, more than a foot and a half long, front to back.

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.

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.

You have a choice of barrel length from 6 in to 10 in IIRC.

Depending on what round you choose, you can have up to a 300gr round.

And that is a problem, how?

I choose door #2. Blow a hole thru the bad guy.

Probably not.

It can be until you get used to it. I am toying with the idea of buying one.

KarTek · #7 08-01-2010, 09:52 AM

I believe the 14" barrel is the one with the extension that looks like it could double as a bayonet.

My friend has both the 44 and the 50. I've held both at the same time and plinked a can across the yard with it. (if you can ever consider anything 50 caliber as "plinking")

They're pretty much a novelty. You'd have to be very big and strong for them to be practical as a duty gun. When it fires, it's a "bang-kachunk" kind of effect because the action is slow like a piece of artillery.

aklim · #8 08-01-2010, 10:23 AM

I've hunted with it and loved it. Very accurate and the barrel change feature is great. OTOH, try a 500 S&W mag at 350 grains and it is a little much after 20 rounds.

Txjake · #9 08-01-2010, 10:55 AM

lovely piece of art, fun to shoot, esp the 44mag, but big for sure. I'd like to get one just to have one.

Fulcrum525 · #10 08-01-2010, 11:07 AM

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Originally Posted by Mike D

To quote a line from "Blazing Saddles" regarding the use of a Desert Eagle, "Land grab - see Snatch" which leads to the movie, "Snatch" in which one of the heavies' weapon of choice is the Desert Eagle. Great scene in the cafe where the hapless "good guys" attempt to apply pressure to the heavy using replica pieces.

Here you go.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTi6GGywBAM

(Warning, bad language.....a lot of it)

Hatterasguy · #11 08-01-2010, 11:43 AM

They are huge pointless toys. I guess you could hunt with them if pistol hunting is legal in your state.

The .50AE is the version you want to get, since you can get all the other calibers offered, in better pistols.

I wouldn't get the long barrel version, way to big and heavy. The standard version is pretty chunky as it is.

http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/ViewItem.aspx?Item=181767176
I'd like to get the nickle one eventualy.

Billybob · #12 08-01-2010, 02:18 PM

Quote:

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.

Was it in the “Bentley’s walnut glove box”, Jim?

Quote:

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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