…the most powerful production revolver in the world anyway, and that’s just according to the manufacturer. For whatever reason, Russian designers took to creating a revolver to fire their 12.7x55mm cartridge (speculated to be a cut-down .338 Lapua case…), it has been suggested for the purpose of destroying locks and other objects.
https://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2014/09/17/meet-rsh-12-powerful-revolver-world-russian/
A true “hand cannon”, to make a Destiny reference. I never knew low-bore handguns could/would be a thing and always thought that was sci-fi magic in video game guns that didnt have to make sense. Destiny had a lot of low-bore hand guns…guess the devs werent that crazy!
It’s actually funny you say that it seemed like a sci-fi fantasy thing. Mainly because people have tried to develop mainstream low bore pistols for a long time.
The idea is that the more inline the barrel is to the center of the hand the less recoil impacts accuracy.
Recoil only pulls the barrel up because the barrel is above the centerline of the hand creating a lever that pulls the hand up.
An inline barrel would push all that recoil straight back into the hand causing minimal rising with repeated firing.
There’s a few of them like the Chiappa Rhino or the Matebas but it’s definitely not the standard.
Fun fact, mateba turned into chiappa. Same guy behind the Unica 6 made the rhino