Sadly not as much as I should.
Started with an 8 inch x frame after a friend brought one home and it was more fun than I'd expected. At the time rainier 335s were very reasonable and we found a load that shot well at the velocity limit rainier suggested. Wasn't full kilt but still thumped harder than just about everything else. Was the first pistol that showed me what could be done with a revolver at what to me was long range (100 yard berm, I'm not exactly a crack pistol shot but consistently hitting notebook paper at the berm was always fun)
Friend who got me into the x frames had a fascination with shooting soup bones suspended in whatever water vessel we could find at the recycle center. Two bullets really stood out in his tests, the 400 grain platinum dual jacket from winchester and handloaded 350 grain speers that I think were bonded. The factory loaded platinums were the meanest thing I've ever pulled the trigger on, and the speers are seemingly available once a decade. Don't know how good shooting ham bones in totes is for a test of a bullet.... but for a couple guys in early 20s it sure was a lot of fun.
We took them on a ground squirrel hunt with a combination of hard cast and the rainiers, once again absolutely pointless but might have been the most fun I've ever had shooting sage rats. Shot it so fast that the hogue grips got gummy and you moved quick handling reloads.
Probably 15 years ago one of my guys shot a island black tail with it off shooting sticks. Used one of the aforementioned speers, it worked. But a small bodied deer was likely to succumb to any and all available 500 bullets.
Regrettably traded it off for a 4 inch for ease of carry, but it gives up a lot of sight radius and velocity. It's been shot very little compared to the workout I gave the 8 inch.
Probably time to get another longer barrel pistol, and find a new substitute for the now gone rainiers. X frames are inexplicably fun to shoot, one of those guns that doesn't really make sense how big a smile it induces.
Would think for some of the pistol only hunts a 500 with a little practice could be deadly.
