Craig Boddington was the senior contributing editor of our modern gun and ammunition caliber dictionary. Craig was involved in the development and testing of many of these and writes from first hand experience. This dictionary was written exclusively for Wholesale Hunter with unique information found nowhere else.
GUN CALIBER DICTIONARY
Handgun
500 Wyoming Express
The .500 Wyoming Express (.500 WE) is a powerful revolver cartridge introduced in 2005 by Freedom Arms for their Model 83 single-action revolver. Uniquely, the .500 WE is an original belted case not based on any existing case; the belt allows use of a smaller rim to better fit the Model 83. Bullet diameter of .500-inch is the same as the .500 S&W, but with a shorter 1.37-inch case it is not as powerful as the .500 S&W. It is still an extremely powerful handgun cartridge, similar in performance to the .50 Action Express. It propels a 440-grain bullet at 1200 fps, rendering it adequately powerful for almost any game on Earth! Recoil is of course very significant, but the .500 WE is extremely accurate for those who can hang onto it! — Craig Boddington