How far will a gun throw itself from the recoil?

[kevm14]

It's like an extra-dangerous Myth Busters.

This is pretty entertaining anyway, and you don't have to be a gun enthusiast (I'm not).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqcrmfKp-lk

He takes his Smith & Wesson .500 Magnum and stuffs it with 700 grain rounds (research revealed the grain is the mass of the round, not how much gunpowder it has).

From the wiki:

Its primary design purpose was as a hunting handgun cartridge capable of taking all North American game species.

Ha, crazy.

So, first, he demonstrates how painful and unpleasant it is to shoot. There is a brief montage of prior antics "proving" that this isn't the most unsafe and irresponsible thing he's ever done. Then he conducts the experiment. This thing is nasty and ridiculous.