Most powerful rifle caliber

[alpha6164]

Who said the 50BMG cant be shoulder fired and needs a bipod? This is my M82QC and i am pretty accurate with it at a 100yards. I can dump 10 rounds into about a 10-12" area in about ~ 6seconds





http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAdjdHdVQsE

 

[dirtyjim]

[QUOTEThey are working on 1,600 grain bullets in a 4 bore. God Bless these guys. http://www.shootingworld.com/bbs/vie...b3d165aca65870 http://www.shootersforum.com/showthread.htm?t=26647
][/QUOTE]
ken ownes already loads 2000 grain bullets in his 4 bore doubles.
i would actually like a jones 4 bore single barrel underlever. the doubles are just way heavy but the weight helps out with the recoil, i think a 18-20 pound single barrel would be managable.
when i shot the ownes 4 bore double the recoil wasn't bad but the gun weights 26 pounds. i'm 6'1" & 260 pounds & the recoil might have pushed me back about a foot. one of the other guys who shot it was about the same height but only about 180 pounds & it pushed him back about 4 or 5 steps.

 

[saturno_v]

Who said the 50BMG cant be shoulder fired and needs a bipod? This is my M82QC and i am pretty accurate with it at a 100yards. I can dump 10 rounds into about a 10-12" area in about ~ 6seconds

I wonder how your arms felt after that...yes it can be done...for very brief periods...

 

[alpha6164]

^^^Not bad at all actually. I try to get a few rounds off shoulder every time i take that bad boy out just to keep it fresh

 

[gunsandreligion]

you could probably get a 16 inch or two from pearl harbor but if you'll take japanese the yamato wreck got 18 inchers.

 

[sig220mw]

Read about a 515 Nyati or Nyata several years ago in G&A. Ross Seyfried did an article about it and shot it. Hell of a thumper he said. The pictures of it in recoil were plumb scary. Still not as big as that 950 jdj though.

 

[dirtyjim]

its a 585 nyati not a 515 & it is a thumper but its not all that scary unless the rifle is under 10 pounds or the stock isn't designed right. i think a lot of the pictures of big bores being shot are exaggerated for the magazines.
i might do a 550 express on a mauser action this year. if i can get about 4 or 5 more people to go in on the barrels its a lot cheaper.

 

[elmerfudd]

There was a company about 15 years ago or so that made a 16" barreled .50 BMG that I believe was called the Desert Rhino. It was supposed to have weighed about 16 lbs. and was made to be fired from the shoulder.

I remember reading a review of it in a gun rag where they said that firing it was akin to being at ground zero at a nuclear blast and that the muzzle blast ended up cracking the lens on the camera they were using to photograph it.

Found some photos here,
http://www.sportingadvertising.com/gun_details/harris_bmg_rhino.htm

 

[Jaws]

This puppy is not too bad either:

14.5x114mm
64 g (990 gr) B-32 API 1,000 m/s (3,300 ft/s) 32,000 J (24,000 ft·lbf)

 

[mrjohnston]

I've always wanted a 18" barrelled barret M82. I think it'd be one helluva brush buster...

I will own a .458 lott one day, that's the biggest I think I need in Oklahoma. Maybe a .450 SOCOM SBR upper for the AR, but that's a only 45-70 league, so it doesn't fit in this thread.