05-30-2010, 09:22 AM
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Quote from "Guns of the Matrix" by Mad Ogre, emphasis mine.
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Accompanied by the street cops is an Agent. They are the movie's super villains. They of course are armed with a much more sinister pistol than the Glock. The Desert Eagle is perhaps one of the most over played handguns in Hollywood. I'm not sure why that is exactly, but I guess it's because the D.E. looks good on film in the mind of a gun ignorant Director. It is a very large and heavy pistol designed to fire some of the most powerful cartridges available. From a scene later in the film we see a cartridge being fed into the chamber and it looks like the relatively new .50AE cartridge. Given unlimited resources of these Agents, I guess the .50AE would be the caliber of choice for your Desert Eagle. However I doubt the D.E. would be the gun of choice. These guns have a number of good points... Weight perhaps is number one. They are so heavy that they absorb so much recoil energy as to tame even the hottest loads. This makes firing powerful .44 magnum loads actually enjoyable instead of just painful. The design also uses a fixed barrel giving the pistol enhanced accuracy. This makes it popular among folks who like the challenge of handgun hunting. The downsides of the D.E. is that the pistol is ammo sensitive and has questionable reliability. Accuracy and power are both good, but reliability is a much more critical for a fighting gun. This is why the Desert Eagle pistols are actually rare on the firing ranges, and are never used by any fighting force... police, military or special ops. Yet you'll see it in movies about all the above. Go figure. Some folks have them and think highly of them, but I'm not one who does. At best the D.E. is a curiosity... an interesting pistol to play with, but impractical in any real world setting.
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THE GUNS OF THE MATRIX
Credentials of author:
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About Ogre.
I am a gun owner. I am also a NRA Certified Pistol and Personal Protection instructor. I am an American....I served my Country in the US Army as an 11B Light Infantryman.]
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Also, here's an "Ask a Rabbi" article about whether a Desert Eagle is a good purchase:
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QUESTION: Dear Rabbi Mermelstein:
[....]I'm thinking about stepping up to the Desert Eagle .50AE, but several colleagues have advised me to resist the temptation, mainly because its muzzle flash, noise, weight etc. make it "impractical." I would use the Desert Eagle on the range and store it in a Gun Vault in my bedroom.
Presently, I use the same Colt Defender as my CCW and home-defense weapon. What's your opinion of the Desert Eagle?
Glenn Goodhart
30 Oct 1999
ANSWER: Dear Glen,
The Desert Eagle, being gas operated, is an extremely finicky handgun. The slow burning Ball powders that the cartridge requires necessitate frequent cleanings to remove the unburnt powder residue as often as every 50 rounds. Failure to adhere to a rigorous cleaning schedule will render the piece useless. Cast bullets are out of the question. Only FMJ or 3/4 jacket bullets will keep the gas port in the barrel from becoming fouled with lead. The removal of this clogging is a job for a gunsmith. A bronze phosphor bore brush will not do the job.
The pistol, itself, has all the ergonomics of a cinder block. It is heavy, and not at all suitable to concealed carry. Opinions are like belly buttons: everybody has one. The Desert Eagle has never appealed to me. If I needed a repeating handgun with more power than the .44 Magnum, I would buy the new Ruger Redhawk in .454 Cassul.
A public indoor shooting range that I used to frequent had a Desert Eagle for rental purposes. It was out of commission most of the time, though it was fired with .44 Magnum 240 gr. FMJ ammunition that was sold to them by my commercial ammunition factory at that time. W-W 296, H110, and AAC #9 were the only propellants suitable. All this was to no avail. That indoor range had to purchase a long-tem warranty from Action Arms to keep the contraption in working order. Turn around time was slow, and the firearm saw more time at the repair depot than in service. Pass it by. Any weapon that requires that degree of maintenence would never rate space in my gun safe.
Sincerely,
R. Mermelstein
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GunOwnersAlliance.com - Ask the Rabbi: Desert Eagle .50 AE
Rabbi Mermelstein's qualifications:
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Rabbi Mermelstein has agreed to answer a limited amount of firearms-related questions for readers of the Gun Owners Alliance Web Pages. A life long gun owner, Rabbi Mermelstein had served in the US Army Infantry for three years during the closing years of the Vietnam era, attended rabbinical academies for nine years to earn his rabbinical ordination, and started his own company manufacturing ammunition for wholesale distribution throughout the country. He was the Handloading Editor for Petersen's HANDGUNS, featured on the masthead of that publication for 3 ½ years. He is of course, an avid shooter and handloader. Additionally, Rabbi Mermelstein is has published a book on the history and evolution of small arms cartridges entitled, "Mermelstein's Guide to Metallic Cartridge Evolution".
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