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Originally Posted by Strange Famous
I cannot imagine that anybody uses a gun for any other purpose than to go "bang" or carry the threat of doing so.
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Then why are you even engaging in this discussion?
Reasons people need a gun other than going 'bang' (also known as plinking):
IPSC competitions
Home/business defense
Self Defense
Military use
Law enforcement use
Professional personal protection
Hunting
The Desert Eagle is ill-suited to all of these with the possible exception of the last, and that only because hunters enjoy a challenge. People will try hunting with anything (crossbows? bows? Absurd revolvers? 22 pistols?), particularly if it adds to the difficulty!
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I am stating that the Desert E is the best gun of its type in terms of design.
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What does that mean? What is it designed to do, that it is the best at?
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That in material terms it more powerful or as powerful as any other gun
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Measurably false. 500 S&W Magnum, .454 Casull and the .460 S&W Magnum are all more powerful. In 50AE, it might have the dubious niche title of "highest ft/lbs of force produced by a large-run production semiautomatic handgun when loaded with handloaded hot ammunition". It's not even the only gun in that caliber, though.
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That because it is made by one of the best manufacturers of small arms, it is of the highest quality
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OK. It's made by a good manufacture. Does that make it a "good gun" (meaningless without a context of something it is 'good at'), or counteract its known unreliability or pickiness about ammunition? An unreliable design manufactured with high-quality processes doesn't magically become more reliable.
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Yes, because it is such a big beast there is some trade off in terms of its accuracy and the level of care needed for it, but this is the same for any very powerful gun.
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Again, a lack of accuracy is ironically the one this pistol is not accused it of--Because of the fixed barrel, it can be very accurate. Statements like this show you are just talking out of your ass, rather than relaying any kind of actual knowledge. Unless you can you outline WHY exactly we are accusing it of being unreliable, your assertions that these factors are invalid don't carry much weight (there are specific reasons inherent to the design that make it unreliable). Your apologies for its lack of accuracy show you do not understand its design. I'm not sure what else to add here.
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For the peanut gallery, and Strange Famous, a quick lesson in the Desert Eagle's action:
The tealish barrel assembly is fixed to the brown frame. There is a thin passage through the barrel assembly all the way to the end, which allows gases produced by a cartridge's ignition to push back a piston, green. What's not totally clear from this cutaway view is that the green piston is attached to the green bolt/slide assembly outside the frame, and those two parts are the only bits of the pistol that recoil. Here is a picture of it in its 'cocked' condition (pardon the watermark) which shows how the piston is attached to the bolt and slide:
Here's a picture from the patent that makes it more clear:
The advantage to this mechanism is the barrel remains fixed at all times, improving accuracy, and you can use high power rounds which would overpower a more traditional cycling method. The disadvantage is that you have a thin gas inlet to a tiny gas pathway right next to your feed ramp, and if your ammunition has a particularly 'dirty' burn, or if the projectile is soft enough that small fragments might be scraped off as the bullets are chambered, this passage can become blocked, and the pistol will stop feeding new rounds.
Edit: I forgot, a second disadvantage is your pistol needs to be large and heavy to accommodate the gas piston mechanism.