I've shot the X-frame in the Model 500 before and really liked the revolver, but I don't care for the .500 S&W cartridge. It's just too much gun for my needs (deer hunting), and more expensive to shoot, both for factory ammo and reloads. But I've long said that if they chambered the X-Frame in .454 Casull I'd love to have one. Well, it looks like there are others who feel the same way and the boys over an S&W finally fulfilled our wish and then some by designing the Model 460XVR and the new .460 S&W cartridge to go with it (talk about a screaming fast revolver round!). The beauty of it is that it will shoot .454 Casull and .45 Colt interchangably, which is what I wanted from the start.

Anyway, I talked to one of my local (and better) dealers, and he said that he could get me one for in the $800 range when they come out, but that during the final testing phase of developement S&W decided that the steel the cylender was made of wasn't up to their quality control standard and the guns weren't meeting S&W's longevity requirements, so the release had been delayed until they get it straightened out. Probably late summer, at the earliest. []

I'd really like to get the 460XVR, but I'm not sure I want to wait for it because it might be cutting it really close to deer season, and I've considered getting another Ruger SRH in .454 Casull instead.

Thoughts?

Mike