Talk me into it or out of it. Gimme all the details. I have the money for one, for the ammo, I think it’s cool, and my hands are on the bigger side.
I want one
Talk me into it or out of it. Gimme all the details. I have the money for one, for the ammo, I think it’s cool, and my hands are on the bigger side.
You have the money for it, why not? What else are you going to use that cash for that will bring you the same enjoyment?
Yes. It's a meme gun and if you got meme money lying around it's a fine purchase.
consoomer mindset
yeah, it's best to leave extra money sitting and devaluating.
I'm sold, just cashed out all my index funds and am going for a 100% deagle portfolio
Poor
Have you seen / held one in real life? you might change your mind.
if you dont have the physique to back one up dont bother
I'm small and soft looking, I don't think it makes me tougher but I just like how it contrasts and am a bit of a recoil prostitute
Other than the rather high bore axis i can't say anything bad about my deagle
get the 357 one, you'll shoot it more
What the hell is the point of a deagle that's not in .50 AE? That's like buying a muscle car with a 4-cyl.
More like a turbo V6 as opposed to a V8.
A .22 conversion would be more in line with a 4 banger.
Regardless 357 deagles frick and if you actually want to shoot the thing instead of a paperweight that is.
Get the barrel, mag and bolt for 357, 44 mag, and 50 AE…. It’s a for fun hand cannon.. why the frick not spend the extra for all the extra bits..
> Glock 21 gen 3 SF frame, Glock brand or generic frame
> .460 Rowland conversion
> 26 round factory magazines
Do you reload?
>He went with a fricking glock over a FNX for a rowland conversion
>NGMI gloccel
>police trade in GbG 21.
>.50 GI conversion
.50 is bigger than .460 I win.
Go rent one at the range. Then you can enjoy this moronic thing all you want without having the $2,000+ commitment and buyer’s remorse.
This.
2 more rounds of way cheaper ammo that recoils like a 9mm.
>2 more rounds of way cheaper ammo that recoils like a 9mm.
I can see the appeal of cheaper, but "recoils like a 9mm" defeats the whole fricking point of a giant meme handcannon.
Turbo V6 is the .440 Cor-Bon. And if you handload, which you should if you're shooting .357 anyway, it's not bad.
If you want a giant meme handcannon, why aren’t you going after a .45/70 or .500S&W?
I'd agree with you, but some people don't care for revolvers. Or they want both.
Thr 45 70 ha dguns are literal memes.
They comeout at like 800FPS.
I mean, a lot of people that shoot 45-70 reload it like me, I suspect you can do significantly better than 800fps without much hassle.
>Go rent one at the range
This. Local indoor has one and almost every time I go someone is renting it. People love it but no one is dumb enough to buy one.
no range near me does rentals
I have the smallest hands of any 6-footer I know, yet had no problems shooting spicy .44mag one-handed out of my uncomped 1st gen. Why the frick not go for it unless you don’t already have something more practical for CCing.
>Making car gun analogies
>Not reloading
Get out you absolute homosexual.
1. They are expensive
2. The ammo is expensive
3. They jam, all the fricking time
4. They are israeliteshit
>. They jam, all the fricking time
In my experience they're highly reliable, except when morons buy the ones in revolver calibers and don't RTFM regarding what loads to use.
The 50 AR is the most Jammy one.
The 429 DE might be the most reliable, bit good luck finding ammo, and I don't even know if they produce guns in it anymore.
>The 50 AR is the most Jammy one.
.50AE, and that’s not the most jammy one in my experience, the .44 mag barrel I have is, the .357 mag and .50AE barrels have been great, probably have almost 1,200 rounds combined. And the recoil spring is going strong for those talking about a 1,000 round change. I think that would depend on what you’re firing, as 1,000 rounds of .50AE is going to be harder on the gun than .357 mag. The great thing on the Desert Eagle that no one has really talked about yet is the modularity of it, the frame slide and barrel are ridiculously overbuilt, and all the small parts are in assemblies that can be broken down further or replaced entirely, just a great feature in a magnum firing handgun.
>ported .357 deagle barrels
Did you get a deal on them or something?
Actually yeah, they were a couple hundred off, they’re nice but suck if you’re shooting in a stall or indoors, incredibly loud and you also get bombarded with jacket fragments since they effectively act like an apple peeler as the bullets go through, zero recoil though, it’s a favorite of almost everyone to shoot.
I feel like 44 mag has a wider range of weights and power than 50ae….
.50 ain't the jammy one, anon.
>50 and 44 use the same recoil spring
>not sure what genius thought that was a good idea
>not sure what genius thought the deagle was a good idea for that matter
>not sure what genius thought the deagle was a good idea for that matter
in 1982 chaim liebowitz was forced to wall-bang a palastinian nursery, in claustrophobic, close confines, where hamas had set up scud-missile complex via clandestine tunnel.
As chaim mag-dumped through the door and the mud-brick adobe walls he thought
>"you know what? I would have been able to cleanse er... uhh i mean *clear* the room behind it too, if I had an automatic magnum handgun to do it. .50ae even"
minutes later after returning to the kibbutz, bravely using pen and paper he had liberated from hamas'ian doctors lab-coats, he expertly sketched out the first blue-print of what would become the famous "DESERT EAGLE", which he handed over to his rav shamal-rishon who then removed his name from the blueprint, put his own on it and sold it to IMI for $6gorllion shekels and exclusive movie, vidya and gangsta-rap rights
we have serendipity and the martial know-how of the idf to thank for greatest handgun ever made (not made by Colt™)
I love mine. love it so much I got the 50AE barrel to add to the 44 it came with. it's simply condensed shooting joy for only the reason of enjoying shooting.
What's ge rifle in the background? Not the wooden stocked one with the bipod; the one blelow it
If you can afford one go for it. I suggest getting into reloading though, if you arent already.
Why did you put IWI grips on your US made Deagle?
I didn't, that's how it came when I bought it (used)
...then change them.
They're grips, anon. Relax.
OP here
I’ve seen some people asking why I am asking for other’s opinions
My reasoning is I’d like to hear some opinions from people who own them on what the maintenance is like.
For example: I saw a comment on YouTube saying you must replace the recoil springs every 1000 rounds. These are the kinds of things I’d like to hear about, because every gun needs maintenance and replacement parts, but 1000 rounds is a pretty low count for needing replacement parts.
For example you could run an AR or 9mm without replacing springs or bolt parts for thousands of rounds no issue.
Thoughts from owners or people who know?
>change spring every $7500 of ammo
not a big deal.
You either want or you don't. Its a BBQ gun or you've watched a movie/tv show/video game with one in it and you like it. Its a dirty gun due to the gas system so it takes a little more effort to clean after a range session than most semi-auto handguns. You only really to replace springs if the gun is failing to go into battery often.
>Only 1000 rounds
This is probably .50AE
357 wouldn't have these issues.
I'm about 500 rounds into my 44magnum one and it's happy as a clam. it is ammo sensitive, but they give you a list of ammo that it likes in the box. pretty much all 50AE is made for the Deagle, and some places sell DE specific 44mag. they like the hotter loaded ammo, because it's a gas operated gun that takes (typically) revolver ammo.
other than that, mines been very good, maybe there was about 100 rounds of break in, where it didn't always cycle, but after that it has been very good.
>it is ammo sensitive
True. The 1st gen .44mag I had stopped jamming altogether as soon as I switched to reasonably spicy fully jacketed hollowpoints with no soft lead to catch anywhere.
>357 deagle
Fricking this.
.50AE is understandable because that's the special cal the thing was made for.
.44 makes sense because it's more common and has a bit less kick.
.357 is the equivalent of ordering a salad from a pizza place, you look stupid doing it, you're not convincing anyone of whatever you're trying to pull off, and you'd be better off doing something entirely different.
>it's ammo sensitive
What is even the point then?
8+1 44 magnum and it's only sensitive in that it likes hotter ammo. also the trigger is genuinely nice.
You can't physically fit what I posted.
It's picky.
We get it you own a one trick pony, go suck Bill Ruger’s wiener some more.
>NOOOO IT'S NOT PICKY
>can't feed it longer than 1.600
>sucks Israeli dick instead
Any exposed lead is genuinely picky, please heed this anon.
>it only fits 6 shots
seems kinda picky to me.
>picky about ammo
44 mag in a revolver is nice and all, but really if we’re talking big bore stuff it’s kinda the starting point.
I’d give the deagle brand deagle a pass simply because firing a frickhuge semi auto with a slide the size of a remote control has a charm of its own..
I’d love to get the 3 barrel kit eventually, but I’m currently enjoying my trip through “absurdly big revolver land”
Op. Buy the deagle. Shoot the big gun. Smile. … learn to reload to do it more.. also save all brass even if you don’t reload..
That’s cute
Excepting the diameter difference, those aren't doing anything terminally different. They'll both hit the dirt on the otherside of whatever game you shoot at.
It’s the difference between “hit the plate and swing it” and “hit the plate and it wraps itself around the sawhorse”
I don't just shoot steel.
Until they start armoring the deer around me I have better options for hunting….
More about the season, I'd take a handgun over a muzzleloader.
My brother in Ohio hunts with a 500 magnum encore.. silly straight wall cartridge rules.. he got a doe out at 100 yards with one of those 600 grain aria rounds.. just dropped and apparently had a significant amount of goo for internal organs.. we were joking that if the deer hid behind a tree he could just blow through it..
Magnum pistol rounds of all kinds are massively underrated killers.
Pic was a very hot 45 Colt.
Couldn't you kill a deer with 9mm out of a 92FS?
Sure.
Yup It kills stuff dead good, and has been for a long time.
>500 magnum
I might just save up for one to celebrate eliminating most of my debt
I got mine as a “paid off all my student loans” gun
I wish they made factory threaded barrels. Or at least barrels with just a little extra length that could then be turned and threaded to whatever size you needed. I'd feel awful chopping one of those cool 10" barrels in half. They were somewhat hard to find and pretty expensive last time I checked too.
My old man has a 44 mag deagle, it's pretty sick and a lot nicer to shoot than you'd think
>Can't conceal carry it.
>Look like an autistic open carrying it.
>Way better Home Defense options.
>Awful for a SHTF situation.
The only plus side is to look cool for instagram pics and in front of your friends with it.
You do remember what “fun” is right anon?
What’s it like being wrong about everything you just said?
he's actually right on all counts
>he doesn't own multiple guns already
Black person I pretty much have my designated HD and SHTF guns, I'm now in a phase of buying fun guns + the occasional practical gun here and there
Nobody that buys a deagle brand deagle is using it for their HD/carry gun. You buy it as a range queen or if you want to do handgun hunting.
You can easily CC a deagle, if you aren’t a pathetic manlet or lardass that is.
Anyone got knowledge of up and coming companies working on magnum autoloaders? Dislike the deagle's aesthetics and not a fan of the automag's low capacity. It's ridiculous that in current year i can get a revolver chambered in 45-70 but can't get a doublestack autoloader in AT LEAST 357mag.
Isn’t automag (current new owners) relaunching the automag 4?
Technically yes but 5 grand and there's a waiting list
Not super surprising.. I’m at 3k and a 4 month total time period for a 500 bushwacker.. not including buying any actual ammo.. the big fun shit is just like that…
oof, the pain of being a big bore enthusiast
Honestly. I’m too curious to see just how it feels to shoot to mind spending that much. I do want to eventually get a deagle though.
seems moronic when some probably now dead guy out big-bored you 9 years ago on YouTube for less money.
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Hadn’t seen that before, that’s actually pretty awesome.. guess I need to get a second BFR.. wonder if you can put a 458 Lott in the cylinder or if it’s too short.
Also for what it’s worth technically I suspect 500 bushwacker outperforms 458 winmag. He’s getting 1600 + fps out of 500 grain solids with that 10 inch barrel. TII generally gets their 510 grain solids up to 2100 fps out of the same..
Good luck figuring out how to make rimmed cartridges work in a doublestack.
Yeah at this point it sounds like you’d be better served by 7.5 FK, which gives you 16 rounds with nuclear .357 mag energy.
Has anyone successfully reloaded this frickspensive round yet?
7.5 does literally nothing better while having everything worse than a 9x25 dillon. Weird caliber, impossible to find dies, only one gun chambered in it, mediocre energy compared to 9x25 and literally any 10mm gun can be made into 9x25 if you know a good machinist for about 400 bucks.
2 guns chambered in it now (field pistol and PSD) and better extreme-range performance like 6.5CM vs .308, but otherwise you’re correct.
Is the psd steel frame? Or poly?…. I’d love a field pistol but I don’t have field pistol money… if the psd is all metal it would be cool.
The PSD is polymer, but it seems insane to pay 4x as much and lose multi-caliber capability just to have all steel.
At that price range I’d be getting purely as a fun luxury.. not gonna spend field pistol, or psd money on something I actively dislike the feel of.. realistically none of us are buying one of these for a practical purpose.. and for a fraction of the psd cost you could get something that fills whatever practical purpose you’d want other than “that seems like an awesome gun and I want it”
I can't really talk you out of it because I'm in the same boat with you
I know it's a meme, and I want one anyway
You'll be cleaning it constantly and ordering expensive spare parts every 1000-1500 rounds
Unless you just want it as a paperweight like 99% of people
But it's fun. Go for it
Get the gold tiger stripped one. Thats best. Also get it in .50. Anything else is pointless.
Pillager isnt too far from me. And before Magnum Research was bought by Kahr, or the Israelis or whomever owns them now they were based in Fridley MN which right by some of my family.
Just buy the damn thing and get it in 50 African Eliminator and buy a .357 barrel too
I haven't been able to shoot for months myself
>Talk me out of it
Former owner of one, I'll vomit my two scents
1. If you're gonna get one avoid the Mk VIIs and get one of the new one. The VII's at this point are getting old and falling apart
2.The .44 had trouble cycling certain loads so consider just going all in and grabbing the .50
3. If you're left handed, it's gonna hate you and send brass into your forehead
That all said, I miss it and have debated more than once buying another
>3. If you're left handed, it's gonna hate you and send brass into your forehead
As a lefty that owns one, that’s not a handedness problem, that a limpwristing problem, I’ve seen right handed friend smack himself in the forehead with brass as well.
>peak nafo cringe, .jpg
disgusting gun-tuber gay
I truly enjoy mine. No issues. Get one. I only shoot .50ae, so can't speak for others. At some point I may get a .357 kit, but cost brings you close to a separate gun
I wish they made a version without rails. I get why they do but it lacks the soul
They do. I bought mine specifically for the rail. Take a look at certain l5's too. I think they don't have rails on some models. If you're talking barrel, is nice to have so you can mount giant optics like a pro on it for shits n giggles
I really need to save up for a good rifle and a giant toy I need to spend like a dollar a round to reload is utterly stupid but the Deagle has a siren call. Kicking myself for not getting them when they went for like 900 bucks used.
It's worth every penny. I'm in too deep with .458 socom and .50ae to where I'm even now considering .500s&w. Buy a proper rifle first with a better cpr first.
Take one in the stomach daily to build up resistance.
has anyone ever spotted the 14 inch barrel in the wild?
I have 2, I recommend to note the following:
>The Mk 7 versions made by IMI are the best
>The 50 is a hand cannon but pails to even a 454 Casull
>The 44 is better for hunting due to bullet options
>Learn to reload and by a metric ton of H110
>454, 460, 500 are more fun and you won't cry when you lose your unicorn brass
>DEs are a b***h to clean sometimes
>Don't use lead bullets, DO NOT USE LEAD BULLETS
>Buy one used, I try to buy all my guns used and this is a great gun to buy used
I got a .44 Deagle in a trade and really like it, but the .50AE one is the most reliable variant and the one I'd buy if I was buying one. Also by far the most expensive to shoot, but go big or go home IMO.
The coolest Desert Eagle was the one prototype they chambered in 357 Bain and Davis.
Soooo .357, or .50AE?
Can't find the non watermarked version or the mag itself, but find this one.
Both, the best feature of the Desert Eagle is the caliber swapping.
Gold tiger stripe or you're a homosexual
Doesn't the gold crack from the gas pressure after a point?
He's going to shoot it once and then return to his 9mm like everyone who buys a meme caliber.
That’s why you buy a BRNO. Just pull out the bits and you’re good to go.
BRNO is cooler (and has a longer shelf life)
Anybody got any recommendations about trigger tuning? Mine's a bit scratchy
I've also been on the fence about getting a deagle brand deagle for the following reasons:
1.) It's a meme I'd probably take out twice a year to shoot with friends
2.) The guys I know who have owned deagles have all sold them
3.) I fell in love with 357 mag and took the step up to 44. I barely shoot my 44 mag revolver just because I don't control the recoil well. I don't control it well so I don't want to practice with it,0 I don't practice with it so I don't control it well; it's a dumb cycle and I have to image 50AE is harder to control.
The whole ammo price and conversions are just part of the desert eagle so I don't think anyone should hold that against the gun. Otherwise you can buy any other used magnum caliber and have a better carry piece, hunting gun, or self defense. You have to want it for the action, the caliber, or the memes.
Just buy one in .357 mag and get a .44 mag barrel, bolt and magazine to shoot .44, it completely tames .357 mag and does take some sting out of .44, you’ll only shoot the .50AE very rarely and it doesn’t do anything that .44 mag doesn’t.
I had one, after a week its nothing but a big piece of shit. The lustre wears off rather quickly.
> heavy
> impractical
> jams
bitches leave
Is that a custom-made thing, or does someone actually make tubes for Desert Eagles?
It's a custom job. IIRC someone had a 10" factory .357 barrel turned down, threaded, and ported to MP5SD specs. I don't remember where I found the pic, probably a random arfcom thread.
I'm working on getting something similar done, but without the destruction of a cool long barrel. will definitely post it when I can find a machine shop that'll actually do it.
on a related note, what would people pay for a 5/8-24 threaded desert eagle barrel?
I simply don't care for its aesthetics, if you like how it looks don't let my subjective opinion influence your choice.
Get it, it can one-shot to not only the head but even the torso! Very strong gun.
Didnt read the thread. There is no point Op. Just read this comment and dismiss all others. The only DE you should buy is the .50. Its nearly perfect. If youre correct handed, the recoil might push your hand up enough to engage the slide stop. Especially if your hands are large. Dont worry about it if you're a filthy rightie (Its not an insult, its just how see you). Besides, its not your fault. Its your parents'. Get it in any color that you desire. If you pack it let us know. I heard there is one lurking around.
It’ll look great on the table at your trial.