The Desert Eagle's sturdy appearance and firing power cannot be controlled by anyone. This cannot be replaced by any small and exquisite combat pistol. This feature attracted the attention of Hollywood. In 1984, it starred Mickey Rourke.
In the action film "The Year of the Dragon", the Desert Eagle made its first appearance in a movie. Since then, the Desert Eagle has appeared in nearly 500 movies and TV shows. The statistics here do not include movies and TV shows outside the United States.
In many works, when the "powerful deterrent pistol" is mentioned in the script, the Desert Eagle is almost always chosen as a prop. The most impressive thing for domestic movie audiences is probably Arnold Schwarzenegger's movie "Phantom Hero" (
The image in LastActionHero of driving a convertible while beating the gangsters with one hand with a Desert Eagle. In 1985, the rifling of the Desert Eagle was changed to polygonal to improve accuracy. In 1986, MRI launched a
.44 caliber Desert Eagle; this is simply a perfect pistol and the first .44 caliber semi-automatic large-caliber pistol. In 1987, the .41 caliber Desert Eagle was put into production to fill the market gap. In 1989, the Desert Eagle
It has been standardized and finalized, called the "Mark VII" standard, and its content is:
Large safety lock, two-stage trigger, etc.
Although the Desert Eagle is MRI's most famous product, it is not the only one. MRI has launched many "Eagle" series guns in recent years, but none of them have achieved the same success as the Desert Eagle. The current Desert Eagle is divided into MarkⅦ
and MarkXⅨ series; the current MarkⅦ series are all 0.44 caliber, with 6-inch and 10-inch barrels;
inch barrel
In 1979, three people at Magnum Research wanted to develop a semi-automatic pistol firing .357 Magnum revolver ammunition. At that time, their development project was named "Magnum Eagle". These three people
It was J.Lindig, J.Skildam and H.Z.Skildam, while B.White, the founder of Magnum Research, was responsible for the technical details and development. The Magnum Eagle was designed as a target gun and hunting pistol. Chapter
A prototype gun was completed in 1981 and announced in 1982. It caused a great response at the time. The huge power and beautiful appearance of this .357 Magnum-caliber semi-automatic pistol aroused great interest among many shooters. Then,
Magnum Research needed to find a large company to produce this type of pistol, and soon found IMI. Why IMI? There is currently a lack of information in this regard. In short, this type of pistol began to be produced by IMI in 1983 as the "Desert"
It began to be produced and sold in the form of "Eagle", but it was not until 1985 that the .357-caliber Desert Eagle officially appeared on the shelves of the American pistol market. In order to pursue greater power than the .357 Magnum, in 1987
The 0.41 Magnum was launched in 2008, followed shortly by the 0.44 Magnum, the 0.50AE caliber in 1994, and the less promising 0.440 Cor-Bon caliber in 1998.
The polygonal barrel of the Desert Eagle is precision forged. The standard gun is 6 inches long (152.4mm), and a 10-inch (254mm) long barrel is also available. Because the barrel is fixed and has a sight on the top
The scope mounting guide rail allows you to easily add various types of sights. There are safety handles on both sides of the sleeve, which can be operated by left and right hands. The magazine is single-row, and different caliber models have different ammunition capacities. The grip is made of hard rubber.
, but other grips can also be specially customized at Magnum.
One of the biggest features of the Desert Eagle compared to other automatic pistols is the use of gas-operated unlocking principles and bolt-turn locking. This is because the Magnum revolver bullets it fires are too powerful and are generally used in high-power automatic pistols.
The rigid locking principle simply cannot withstand its recoil force.
Structural features
1.
gun
The structure of the Desert Eagle 0.50in pistol is basically the same as that of the 9mm pistol, using the gas-operated working principle. It has an adjustable trigger mechanism. The plastic grip is an integral structure, shaped like a U, and is fixed by a spring pin.
Behind the bullet receiving port, the grip angle is 75° and the distance from the trigger is 70mm. This grip is suitable for medium-sized hands.
The polygonal barrel is precision forged. The standard barrel length is 152mm. It can also be replaced with other barrels of the same caliber. There is no need to remove the sleeve when removing the barrel. However, when changing the barrel caliber, the barrel needs to be completely replaced.
Locking parts, magazines, etc. Compared with the 0.357in caliber pistol, the barrel mass of the 0.50in pistol has increased by 137g, the sleeve has increased by 94g, and the barrel axis has also increased by 1.5mm.
2.
aiming device
The sighting device of the gun consists of a notch rear sight and a flake front sight. The front sight is embedded in a dovetail groove and is 3.3mm high. The notch can be moved laterally and can be easily replaced with an adjustable sight.
3.
ammunition
The gun fires .357magnum, 41magnum, 44magnum and 440.50in fast bullets (AE is the name of an ammunition company).
Performance data
Caliber----0.50in(12.7mm)
Muzzle velocity----402m/s
Muzzle kinetic energy----1570J
Automatic mode----air guide type
Locking method----barrel rotary type
Ammunition supply method----magazine
Ammunition capacity----7 rounds
Full gun length----267mm Barrel length----152.4mm
Empty gun mass----2050g
Effective range----200m
Aiming device----
Front sight----flake
Rear sight----notch type
Aiming baseline length----217mm
Equipped with ammunition types----0.50in fast rifle bullets
Basic performance
accuracy
10 meters is a fairly short distance. The most advantageous thing about the Desert Eagle is that it is very accurate, but what important role does this advantage play in shooting a human-sized target instead of a coin at this distance? Of course you may
Want a more accurate pistol, but such a pistol cannot provide more accurate damage and is very expensive. At this range, an ordinary cheap pistol can achieve the required accuracy.
weight
If you look at the data of the Desert Eagle, you will find that the .50AE caliber of the Desert Eagle weighs 2 kilograms. This weight helps control the recoil when shooting at the range, but the larger weight means it is more difficult to shoot.
Operation, even if you hold the gun with both hands, it is difficult to aim and shoot for a long time, and there is still a gun action. Obviously, if the weight of this pistol is reduced by half, it will be easier to operate, especially under the psychological pressure of self-defense situations.
size
The Desert Eagle is much larger than the average handgun, making it a very large pistol and difficult to carry concealed. While this is not important in a home defense situation, the large size also means it is difficult to operate, and due to the grip
It is difficult for shooters to hold the gun steadily with one hand due to their thick and small palms.
muzzle flash
The muzzle flash of .440Cor-Bon and .50AE is very large. Anyone with a little common sense knows that if a strong flash is suddenly encountered in a dim environment, a residual image will be produced on the retina, so in dim conditions
If you are shooting in self-defense, you need to take some time to recover your vision after firing a shot. I believe no one will object that "time is very important in close firefights", but goggles can withstand some of it.
reliability
This is a very important point. Assuming that you are as strong as Arnold and can easily handle this large, heavy and powerful recoil weapon, and you do not care about the impact of the large muzzle flash, but if your gun jams
What? You will find yourself in a very disadvantageous position. Every self-defense shooting training class will teach you how to quickly troubleshoot gun malfunctions, but in a close combat situation such as a pistol versus a pistol, the reliability of the weapon in hand
It is still quite important. Of course, malfunctions may occur on any kind of pistol, but the operation of troubleshooting the Desert Eagle is not so convenient because the bullet fired by the Desert Eagle is relatively long, so its slide stroke is also longer than that of other pistols.
It is long, and its grip is large. People with slightly shorter fingers cannot press the magazine catch quickly (you can make up for this by pressing it with the middle finger of the gun holder). In addition, its size is too large.
It's also not that agile to operate.
recoil
This is a well-known shortcoming of the Desert Eagle. Of course, it does not mean that the recoil of the Desert Eagle cannot be controlled. Everyone can do it after some practice and paying attention to some details. These shooting techniques can be heard
It's very simple: don't let your wrists be too soft, keep them tight, straighten your elbows, use your shoulders to absorb the recoil, and don't hold the bottom of the magazine. Of course, most people only need to spend a little time on the shooting range.
You can successfully fight the Desert Eagle if you are well prepared, but what if you are in a situation of psychological pressure? For example, in self-defense, I am afraid that most people will forget certain details under intense psychological pressure. I heard an extreme example recently.
——A man who shot .44 Magnum AUTOMAG for the first time broke his right wrist on the first shot because he didn’t pay attention to how he held the gun (it is said that he didn’t have much shooting experience). However, this example is too extreme, and it is not true or false.
It cannot be confirmed, but the recoil of .44 Magnum cannot be underestimated. Therefore, for ordinary people, a pistol that is not so picky about shooting action will be more suitable. If it is the recoil of .357 Magnum
It is relatively gentle, but it is said that the performance of the .357 Magnum bullet on the Desert Eagle is not very good (many foreign Desert Eagle fans say this), so most people buy the .44 Magnum bullet.
Glam type. In addition, the large recoil of the Desert Eagle will cause another problem - recovery time. It is also very important to be able to shoot quickly in extreme situations. In other words, it is necessary to use less fire after firing a shot.
time to aim at the target and fire the second shot, or aim at the next target.
elastic capacity
This is a huge shortcoming of the Desert Eagle, which will put you in danger. Compared with the 17-round ammunition capacity of the Glock 17, 7 rounds are pitiful, and the continuous firepower is insufficient, which often leaves you passive. For a self-defense pistol,