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AAC .50 Suppressor photo

The below photo comes from an article about the AAC Cyclops suppressor that Andy posted on the official AAC blog. The photo illustrates the size really well.

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Looks similar in size to a massive custom 12 gauge suppressor I saw on a Remington 870 recently.

Posted by Steve on Dec 30th 2008 | Filed in Suppressors, photos, rifles | Comments (3)

Homemade .50 BMG rifle

The .50-Caliber Rifle Construction Manual written by Bill Holmes was published in 2002. The Amazon customer reviews have criticized the book for its poor drawings and complex construction techniques.

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A guy names “mxwelch” on YouTube has build a working .50 BMG rifle based on Bill’s book. To simplify construction he used an M2 maching gun barrel which he cut it down and re-chambered, instead of building his own, and made the rifle single shot instead of a magazine fed repeater.

The total monetary cost was $400 which includes the M2 barrel and chamber reamer rental. It took over 25 hours of shop time to build!

It weights 34 lbs and can shoot 1.5 MOA.

Posted by Steve on Dec 8th 2008 | Filed in rifles | Comments (11)

Custom .50 BMG rifle confiscated from Mexican gang

This interesting .50 BMG rifle was discovered on a raid by Mexican police and army:

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My take on the rifle is that it is a McMillian TAC-50 action with an AR-50 barrel and muzzlebreak and a homemade unfinished (no recoil pad) stock.

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McMillian TAC-50

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Armalite AR-50

More photo of the captured weapons at MP.net.

Posted by Steve on Dec 4th 2008 | Filed in military, rifles | Comments (5)

Slow motion video of scope and barrel flexing

This is a snippet of the future weapons episode about the .50 BMG Accuracy International AS50. It is amazing footage, you can see the scope, scope rail and barrel flexing during the recoil.

Watching that scope move around really made me wince.

Posted by Steve on Oct 14th 2008 | Filed in optics, rifles, video | Comments (5)

Lots of .50 Barretts

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This photo is of members of the Mexican army on parade during the Independence Day celebrations on 16 September 2008.

Hat Tip: MP.net

Posted by Steve on Sep 23rd 2008 | Filed in photos, rifles | Comments (9)

.50 Beowulf AR Pistol

Very cool.

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Hat Tip: SayUncle

Posted by Steve on Aug 19th 2008 | Filed in handguns, photos | Comments (0)

Suppressed .50 photo

What is cooler than a .50 BMG? A suppressed .50 BMG :)

I found this photo on the Advanced Armament website. Click to expand

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The Cyclops Suppressor

Posted by Steve on Jun 26th 2008 | Filed in Suppressors, photos, rifles | Comments (5)

.50 Glock

Guncrafter Industries are selling a .50 GI conversion kit for the the Glock 20/21.

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The .50 GI round should not be compared to the Desert Eagle’s .50 Action Express or the .500 S&W. It is slightly more powerful than the .45 ACP.

Wikipedia information on the .50 GI:

.50 GI
Type Handgun
Place of origin Flag of the United States United States
Production history
Designer Vic Tibbets / Alex Zimmermann
Designed 2004
Manufacturer Guncrafter Industries
Specifications
Case type Rebated, straight
Bullet diameter .515 in (13.1 mm)
Neck diameter .526 in (13.4 mm)
Base diameter .526 in (13.4 mm)
Rim diameter .480 in (12.2 mm)
Case length .899 in (22.8 mm)
Overall length 1.221 in (31.0 mm)
Ballistic performance
Bullet weight/type Velocity Energy
275 gr (17.8 g) JHP 900 ft/s (270 m/s) 492 ft·lbf (667 J)
300 gr (19 g) JHP 860 ft/s (260 m/s) 493 ft·lbf (668 J)

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The kit will retail for $595.

Hat Tip: Foodpounds

Posted by Steve on Mar 27th 2008 | Filed in ammunition, handguns | Comments (19)

US Army looking for lighter .50 machine gun

The U.S. Army and Special Operations Command are stepping up efforts to procure a lighter, modernized .50-caliber machine gun more easily transported than the standard 85-pound M2.

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The goal is not to replace the M2, a combat fixture for 70 years, but to augment the inventory with a .50-caliber weapon that brings the same firepower at less than half the weight, Army officials said here at the Feb. 27-29 winter convention of the Association of the U.S. Army. Early models of the Light Weight .50-caliber (LW50) are expected to be delivered this year.

More info at Murdoc Online

Posted by Steve on Mar 3rd 2008 | Filed in machine guns, military | Comments (8)

Shooting Clays … with bigger guns and bigger clays

Hat Tip Traction Control

Posted by Steve on Mar 3rd 2008 | Filed in machine guns, shotguns | Comments (0)

Serbu BFG-50A will be in production later this year

Serbu, makers of the BFB-50 single shot .50 BMG rifle and the Super-Shorty shotgun, announced that their semi-automatic .50 BMG rifle will be available sometime after July. I think they had it on display at SHOT.

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The BFG-50A is a magazine-fed, gas-operated .50 BMG rifle. It takes standard 10-round M-82 magazines. It has a 3-lug rotating bolt, dual plunger ejectors, sliding plate extractor, hydraulic recoil buffer. The bolt locks into a barrel extension which is threaded to the barrel. The bolt lug and barrel extension locking surfaces are helical. The gas system is similar to that used on a Ljungman AG-42 or MAS 49/56.

As with our BFG-50 single-shot rifle, all our barrels are chambered with our own reamer design which allows surplus ammunition to be fired but gives far greater accuracy than can be achieved with barrels using a machine gun chamber. Barrel length: 26.0″, overall length: 52.5″. Rifle weighs 25 lbs unloaded. The BFG-50A uses a highly efficient 8-port “Shark Brake” muzzle brake. Barrel/barrel extension and handguard are removable to allow different barrel and handguard lengths and configurations.

In early July we’ll be delivering a small number of rifles to a very high priority customer and will be moving to full production shortly after that. Price is still expected to be right around $5000.

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An early prototype

More here.

Posted by Steve on Feb 13th 2008 | Filed in rifles | Comments (3)

Black Powder AR-15

CMMG have announced an .50 Black Powder AR-15 Upper!

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To fire, the powder charge and bullet are loaded via a ramrod. Using a standard magazine with a single shot follower, an unloaded 5.56 case is loaded into the mag, inserted in magazine well and loaded just like a standard rifle.

Once the rifle is fired, the empty brass is ejected manually and then reloaded.

It is a modified .223 case that uses a 209 primer. Currently .50 cal. Should have pricing and other specs tomorrow.

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Interesting! As one commenter said

Can you imagine the face of an unsuspecting
game warden the first time he runs across these..

They have yet to announce pricing.

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UPDATE

This isn’t a loaded case, it is a 209 primer in a piece of .223 brass. There is no way a live round or a blank will load into the “chamber”.

UPDATE

A video of it in action. Actually, it looks pretty good.

More at AR15.com

Hat Tip: Freedom Sight

Posted by Steve on Jan 8th 2008 | Filed in rifles, strange guns | Comments (10)

Gangsta Desert Eagle

This is just ridiculous! It is a tiger striped .50AE Desert Eagle

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Anyone buying such a gun is trying to send a clear message. That message is “I am the greasiest and most tasteless pimp that ever graced the streets!”

To read more about it, and how much it costs, click over to James’s blog.

Posted by Steve on Dec 19th 2007 | Filed in handguns, photos | Comments (6)

The Chinese .50 BMG sniper rifle

The Chinese have two types of gas operated semi-automatic .50/12.7mm caliber rifles. Both only shoot at 2 MOA with standard ammunition.

This is enough for anti-material work but well below western sniper rifle standards. For comparison, the Barrett M82 is supposed to shoot sub MOA (less than 1 MOA).
It is available in either 12.7×108mm or .50BMG.

It comes in two versions.

The M99

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and the bullpup M99B / M06


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More info here.

Posted by Steve on Dec 19th 2007 | Filed in military, rifles | Comments (4)

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