Re: Desert eagle .44?
I have cycled through two of them, both 44mag. This was before the 50 came out and both were on the old frame/slide. I used them for hunting, sold one then thought I needed one again and bought the next then remembered way I sold the first one...
They are nice. Well-made and run great as long as you use full powered loads. But man are they heavy even more so when you put a scope on them. The trigger may have been updated by now but the pull was 2 stage and heavy. I purchased a 10" barrel for one of them and was shooting 200 grain xtp's in the mid 1800fps that put whitetail down on impact, be they 25 yards or 75. When benched my two would knock your sock off accuracy wise. That hunting load above would group around 3" at 100 yards, out shooting my muzzleloader and shotgun at the time. (this was before the sabot's really started showing up and inline black powder was the newest craze, pre 209 primer days)
They are a hoot to shot near dark and the muzzle blast made a cool flaming donut. Recoil isn’t bad at all due to the weight and gas piston action.