( 5 out of 5) Awesome range toy

by James from Albany, OR on June 4, 2020

I picked this up a while ago but didn’t want to review it until I had fired it as both a .44 and a .50 AE. I also picked up a .357 barrel and bolt, so it’s basically like having three Desert Eagles. My single biggest gripe is that when I went to pick it up from my FFL, the action was jammed because there was an orange zip tie stuck in in the action I’m assuming it had been sitting on a table at a gun show at some point, so the first thing I had to do was take a rubber mallet and wooden dowel and force the slide open. That was irritating, but I got over it. Now for the good. As the other reviewer said, it’s a freakin’ Desert Eagle! I’ve been wanting one of these since the first time I saw one in a movie in the 80s. This thing gets five stars for cool factor alone.



If you want to get attention at the range, buy one of these. And the price for the pistol with both the .44 and .50 AE barrels and mags was the deal of the century. Is it a practical gun Hell no! It is ridiculously huge and heavy. Is it reliable Not really. I had always heard that people have problems with .50 AE jamming, although I have the most problems with it jamming when I fire it as a .357 about every other magazine and I have never had a feed jam firing it as a .50. .44 is off and on. All of that being said, as one of my dream guns it doesn’t disappoint. I knew these things weren’t noted for their reliability, so I knew what I was getting into. I wouldn’t care if it jammed after every shot because it’s just a lot of fun to shoot.