In article , Jim Yanik
wrote:

(Harry Andreas) wrote in
:



Titanium would be hideously expensive for a survival weapon,
especially as applied to moving parts in a gun.
And the light weight would create eye-tearing recoil.
Any bear defense load would generate too much recoil.

Smith & Wesson makes a titanium/scandium .357 Magnum revolver,and the
recoil I'm told is hard,but still useable.
They may also make a .44Mag model,I'm not sure.

I'm familiar with the S&W Titanium.

He was talking about a shotgun though, and a 12 Ga slug load
generates about 10X the specific impulse of a .357 load.
Ouch.

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Harry Andreas
Engineering raconteur