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Hello again guys:
I have a really exciting idea that I want to share here.
First of all, I was very unhappy with the banning of the .50 BMG round in California. I started to think about ways around the ban and I think I now have a worthwhile idea.
The .50 BMG is a great round, but it might be too much of a good thing. The round has too much recoil and it uses too much powder. It also requires specialized reloading presses and other equipment. The .50 BMG is also very expensive.
I was checking out the Hornady 750 grain A Max slug and this round has a ballistic coefficient of 1.050!! With such a ballistic coefficient, you certainly do not need the high launch speed of the .50 BMG. It would be easy to launch such a wonderful bullet at about 2200 fps from a smaller cartridge.
And the really exciting thing is that a bullet with such a ballistic coefficient would retain at least half of its muzzle energy at a range of 1500 meters. Let's put it this way: A 750 grain Hornady A Max launched at 2200 fps would have a muzzle energy of about 8100 foot pounds. And this bullet would deliver over 4000 foot pounds of kinetic energy at 1500 meters. That's almost the same power that a .338 Lapua has at the muzzle!!!
I started looking through Cartridges of the World and J.D. Jones of SSK Industries has already developed a short .50 cal round that will work through a long magnum action. The round is called the .50 Peacekeeper. This round will send the 750 grain Hornady bullet at 2200 fps. The .50 Peacekeeper is based upon the .460 Weatherby Magnum.
The .50 Peacekeeper really excites me, but I think an even better round would be to load the .505 Gibbs with the 750 grain Hornady bullet. The .505 Gibbs does not have a belt and it would feed nicely from a magazine given the proper action. The lack of a belt would also lead to better headspacing. And .505 Gibbs brass is available from Huntingdon's.
The really exciting part is that one could build a very powerful single shot long range rifle around a standard magnum rifle action. You could use a standard loading press and dies are available from RCBS. The resulting rifle would be more portable than a .50 BMG and it would appear similar to any other long range target rifle. It would not trouble the "rabbit people"
A 20 pound .505-750 would be easier to shoot than a 30 pound .50 BMG rifle. In fact a 20 pound .505-750 would have a recoil energy of about 55 foot pounds. A .30-06 has a recoil energy of about 20 foot pounds.
So what do you guys think? Am I mad? I think so, but in a nice way.
I would also propose a name for the .505-750. I say we should call the round, the ".50 Hathcock" in honor of the late Wimbledon Cup champion.
Mad.
I have a really exciting idea that I want to share here.
First of all, I was very unhappy with the banning of the .50 BMG round in California. I started to think about ways around the ban and I think I now have a worthwhile idea.
The .50 BMG is a great round, but it might be too much of a good thing. The round has too much recoil and it uses too much powder. It also requires specialized reloading presses and other equipment. The .50 BMG is also very expensive.
I was checking out the Hornady 750 grain A Max slug and this round has a ballistic coefficient of 1.050!! With such a ballistic coefficient, you certainly do not need the high launch speed of the .50 BMG. It would be easy to launch such a wonderful bullet at about 2200 fps from a smaller cartridge.
And the really exciting thing is that a bullet with such a ballistic coefficient would retain at least half of its muzzle energy at a range of 1500 meters. Let's put it this way: A 750 grain Hornady A Max launched at 2200 fps would have a muzzle energy of about 8100 foot pounds. And this bullet would deliver over 4000 foot pounds of kinetic energy at 1500 meters. That's almost the same power that a .338 Lapua has at the muzzle!!!
I started looking through Cartridges of the World and J.D. Jones of SSK Industries has already developed a short .50 cal round that will work through a long magnum action. The round is called the .50 Peacekeeper. This round will send the 750 grain Hornady bullet at 2200 fps. The .50 Peacekeeper is based upon the .460 Weatherby Magnum.
The .50 Peacekeeper really excites me, but I think an even better round would be to load the .505 Gibbs with the 750 grain Hornady bullet. The .505 Gibbs does not have a belt and it would feed nicely from a magazine given the proper action. The lack of a belt would also lead to better headspacing. And .505 Gibbs brass is available from Huntingdon's.
The really exciting part is that one could build a very powerful single shot long range rifle around a standard magnum rifle action. You could use a standard loading press and dies are available from RCBS. The resulting rifle would be more portable than a .50 BMG and it would appear similar to any other long range target rifle. It would not trouble the "rabbit people"
A 20 pound .505-750 would be easier to shoot than a 30 pound .50 BMG rifle. In fact a 20 pound .505-750 would have a recoil energy of about 55 foot pounds. A .30-06 has a recoil energy of about 20 foot pounds.
So what do you guys think? Am I mad? I think so, but in a nice way.
I would also propose a name for the .505-750. I say we should call the round, the ".50 Hathcock" in honor of the late Wimbledon Cup champion.
Mad.
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