Image credit
- Title
- File:Raging Hornet.jpg
- Author
- Noahsachs(attribution required)
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Source
- https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Raging_Hornet.jpg
How Muzzle energy is calculated
E = ½ · m · v²
Not calculated: v has no sourced figure yet. Nothing is substituted for a missing input.
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How Muzzle velocity is calculated
no sourced velocity for this load
Not calculated: muzzle velocity has no sourced figure yet. Nothing is substituted for a missing input.
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How Loaded mass is calculated
m_loaded = m_empty + m_magazine + n · m_cartridge
Not calculated: m_empty has no sourced figure yet. Nothing is substituted for a missing input.
Assumptions
- One magazine, filled to the stated capacity. Spare magazines, optics, slings and lights are the owner’s, not the arm’s.
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How Free recoil is calculated
E_recoil = ½ · m_firearm · v_recoil²
Not calculated: m_firearm has no sourced figure yet. Nothing is substituted for a missing input.
Assumptions
- Propellant gas momentum is excluded: ARMAG does not record charge weights. This is therefore a lower bound on the real free recoil, consistent between entries but smaller than a figure that includes the gas term.
- Free recoil: the arm is unrestrained. Stock design, muzzle devices, stance and shooter mass are not modelled, because none of them is a property of the arm.
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How Capacity is calculated
as published for the primary chambering
Inputs
- capacity6estimatedFrom the Wikipedia infobox, uncited there.
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Derived figures
Computed from the sourced values above. Open ƒ on any figure for the formula, its inputs, and the assumptions it makes.
How Momentum is calculated
p = m · v
Not calculated: v has no sourced figure yet. Nothing is substituted for a missing input.
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How Sectional density is calculated
SD = mass(gr) / (7000 · diameter(in)²)
Inputs
- mass15.55 g240.0 grverifiedsourcePublished as 240 gr; 1 gr = 0.06479891 g exactly.
- diameter10.97 mm0.4319 inverifiedsourceC.I.P. G1, maximum bullet diameter.
Assumptions
- Reported in the conventional lb/in² so it is directly comparable with published figures.
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How Power factor is calculated
PF = mass(gr) · velocity(fps) / 1000
Not calculated: velocity has no sourced figure yet. Nothing is substituted for a missing input.
Assumptions
- A competition classification defined by the IPSC and USPSA rulebooks, stated in their units. It describes a scoring category, not an effect.
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How Magazine dump is calculated
t = (n − 1) / (rpm / 60)
Not calculated: rpm has no sourced figure yet. Nothing is substituted for a missing input.
Assumptions
- Cyclic rate held for the whole magazine, no stoppages, trigger held down. A theoretical figure for comparing mechanisms, not a measured one.
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How Sight error at 1 mm is calculated
θ = atan(misalignment / sight radius)
Not calculated: sight radius has no sourced figure yet. Nothing is substituted for a missing input.
Assumptions
- Shows what a stated aiming error costs. The misalignment is the reader’s figure; the site does not claim how well anyone aims.
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Specifications
Every row here is generated from the schema, so a figure recorded on this entry cannot be missing from the table, and the same rows, read the same way, are what the comparison shows.
Identity
- Type
- Revolver
- Action
- Revolver action
- Fire modes
- Single shot
- Operating system
- Manually operated
- Feed
- Roles
- Designed in
- Brazil
- Produced in
- Introduced
- 1997
- Production
- 1997–present
Dimensions and mass
- Mass, empty
- not recorded
- Magazine, empty
- not recorded
- Length
- not recorded
- Length, folded
- not recorded
- Width
- not recorded
- Height
- not recorded
- Barrel length
- not recorded
Sights and rifling
- Sight radius
- not recorded
- Sight height over bore
- not recorded
- Rifling twist
- not recorded
- Twist direction
- not recorded
- Grooves
- not recorded
- Sight graduation
- not recorded
Operation
- Cyclic rate
- not recorded
- Trigger pull
- not recorded
- Effective range
- not recorded
- Units produced
- not recorded
- Launch price
- not recorded
Chamberings
- .44 Magnumprimary6 rounds
- .357 Magnum7 rounds
- .45 Colt6 rounds
- .38 Special7 rounds
- .218 Bee8 rounds
- .22 Hornet8 rounds
- .30 Carbine8 rounds
- .41 Remington Magnum6 rounds
- .454 Casull5 rounds
- .480 Ruger5 rounds
- .500 S&W Magnum5 rounds
- .460 S&W Magnum5 rounds
Scale
A to-scale outline against family siblings. The dimensions are sourced; the shape is a representative outline for the type, and says so.
Representative outline: the dimensions are sourced, the shape is not. Overall length, and barrel length where recorded, are drawn from this entry's own figures; the profile is a generic one for the firearm type and says nothing about this arm's actual contours.
Not drawn: Taurus Raging Bull (no sourced overall length).
Gallery
Image credit
- Title
- File:Taurus Raging Bull revolvers (.44 Mag and .454 Casull).jpg
- Author
- Vrsooo(attribution required)
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Source
- https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Taurus_Raging_Bull_revolvers_(.44_Mag_and_.454_Casull).jpg
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Detail
The Raging Bull is a large-frame, double-action/single-action revolver Taurus began building in 1997 around a dual-locking cylinder mechanism designed to handle heavy magnum cartridges on a single heavy frame. A manually operated front cylinder latch on the crane, similar in principle to a Dan Wesson revolver, gives the lockup strength comparable to the rear-latch systems used on rivals such as the Ruger Super Redhawk and the Smith & Wesson Model 500, at lower manufacturing cost, though it requires both hands to open the cylinder. Ported barrels and a cushioned rubber grip with a distinctive red backstrap insert are standard across most of the line, intended to make the heavier chamberings more manageable to shoot.
The name plays on both the Taurus company’s namesake constellation and boxer Jake LaMotta’s “Raging Bull” nickname, marketing the line explicitly toward hunters. Taurus discontinued the Raging Bull name in 2019 in favour of the Raging Hunter series, a lighter revolver with the same dual-locking cylinder concept but adding a built-in Picatinny rail for mounting a scope; the Raging Hunter won American Hunter’s handgun of the year award for 2019.
This entry covers the platform generically across both the Raging Bull and Raging Hunter lines. Its principal chambering has been .44 Magnum, and Taurus has also offered it in .357 Magnum and .38 Special +P (Raging Hunter only), .45 Colt, and three lighter varmint-rifle-cartridge chamberings marketed as the Raging Hornet, Raging Bee and Raging Thirty: .22 Hornet, .218 Bee and .30 Carbine respectively, all since discontinued, and a six-shot .41 Magnum, also discontinued. The heaviest chamberings are five-shot: .454 Casull and .500 S&W Magnum, the discontinued .480 Ruger, and .460 S&W Magnum, added to the Raging Hunter only in 2021. The Raging Judge, a related but distinct product combining .45 Colt, .454 Casull and .410 bore shotshell capability in one cylinder, is a separate product and not part of this entry.
No maker specification sheet independent of Wikipedia’s own uncited figures was found. Mass, overall length and barrel length are not recorded on this page at all: Wikipedia states them only as ranges spanning the platform’s full run of barrel lengths from 2 to 10 inches and calibres from .22 Hornet to .500 S&W Magnum, and no single figure in that range describes any one configuration honestly.
References
This entry's own bibliography. Every citation key on this page resolves into this list.
- Taurus Raging Bull · Wikipedia · 1373787857 · read 2026-09-24 · CC BY-SA 4.0
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