It was a funny clip, but I wish they hadn't put a S&W .500 magnum in what was obviously a begginers hand. That woman may not ever want to shoot a handgun again after that.
That being said:
When I was a 17 year old smartmouth kid, I thought I had mastered the .44 magnum revolver in every way. My standard load at that time was a 240 grain Hornady hollowpoint over 22.5 grains of Hercules 2400 powder with a CCI standard Large Pistol primer. I shot that load in my S&W model 29 so much, the load details are engraved on my soul. Anyway, I was at my usual spot in a large prairie dog town with my dad when I thought it would be fun to outshoot him with his own .44 magnum. So, I grabbed his Ruger Super Blackhawk and let fly with a certain flourish, gripping his Ruger in the same fashion I gripped my S&W. At he first shot I recall a brief instant where the Ruger was coming back at my head (I always gripped my S&W high so as to minimize muzzle flip for quicker followup shots), then a burst of comets and flashes and spots of lights. I felt my knees hit the prairie and managed to blindly stick my hand in front of me to keep me from falling face first into the pincushion cactus that covered the ground. The fireworks soon stopped and I could see again. I looked at my dad and when he saw I was alright, he laughed long and hard then said "Now show me how to do that fancy shot again!". That
had to have been funny, me being such an arrogant, know-it-all, smartbutt goober! My favorite all round handgun now is a Ruger Super Blackhawk with the barrel reduced to 5 inches and the Super Blackhawk grip frame replaced with regular a BlackHawk grip frame. I would and have trusted my life with this handgun.
BTW, that load I used back then is above the maximum listed for that bullet, powder, primer combination in todays loading manuals. Luckily I used (and still use) my beloved
and legendary Speer No. 8 manual. It contained "the most intrepid loads ever published" according to Handloader magazines editors. That manual has the recipe for driving a 110 grain spirepoint at over 4100 feet per second in a .300 Weatherby! ZING!!
