The gunman was able to inflict such extensive damage from across a baseball field because he was using a semiautomatic rifle that may have qualified as an assault weapon, akin to a standard infantry combat weapon. Scalise, a Republican from Louisiana whose condition has been upgraded to “serious,” suffered broken bones, ruptured blood vessels, and shredded internal organs. That meant that the tip didn’t just bore straight through him, but rather that the whole length of the projectile rotated over and over through Scalise’s body, ripping a wider hole and distributing a bigger shock wave throughout his bones and tissue. The rifle round, which is longer than a pistol projectile, likely also began tumbling after its point collided with his hip. The projectile, a 7.62 x 39 bullet, hit the House majority whip with between 370 and 1,550 foot-pounds of force. Representative Steve Scalise last week was traveling at somewhere between 1,100 and 2,600 feet per second. 38 Special - still serves as a classic, capable example of the same-caliber rifle/handgun combo.The bullet that struck U.S. 357 Magnum, which also accepts and safely shoots the mild. Together the two - now chambered in the versatile. Even today it is the six-shooter the revolver that all cowboys worth their salt carried. Likewise, the Single Action Army revolver - epitomized here by this "Cattleman" reproduction model by Uberti - was the first hugely successful cartridge handgun. Characterized by it's reliability, ergonomics and firepower, it's still much loved by serious lever-action shooters, especially the cowboy action competitive crowd. Known variously as 'the rifle that won the West ' and 'the rifle you load on Sunday and shoot all week, ' the Model 1873 was the AR-15 of the 19th century. 44 WCF - westerners and sportsmen alike loved the fact they could carry one type of ammo to serve both guns.
This is without doubt the most archetypical rifle/handgun same-caliber combo - originally chambered in.
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