Revolvers have a small gap between the cylinder and barrel, so there
will be a small loss of energy there also. There are also some more
powerful pistols such as the .454 Casull.

Norris

Robert B. wrote:

>The Automag and Dirty Harry's revolver fire the same cartridge, no?   A
>revolver uses none of the cartridge energy for loading the next one, while
>the AutoMag most certainly uses a small fraction of the energy to load a new
>cartridge.  How, then, is the AutoMag more powerful?  A longer barrel?
>Secret energy storage? Just curious, things don't seem to add up from over
>here.
>;)
>R.
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Howard Winter" <HDRW@H2ORG.DEMON.CO.UK>
>snip
>
>
>>Actually you can't - Russell was exaggerating a bit - the "most powerful
>>
>>
>handgun in the World" is a *44*
>
>
>>Magnum... :-)  In fact that's a handgun *round* - the most powerful gun is
>>
>>
>probably the AutoMag - uses that
>
>
>>round but it's semi-auto, rather than Dirty Harry's S&W revolver.
>>
>>
>snip
>
>--
>http://www.piclist.com hint: The PICList is archived three different
>ways.  See http://www.piclist.com/#archives for details.
>
>
>

--
http://www.piclist.com hint: The PICList is archived three different
ways.  See http://www.piclist.com/#archives for details.