my DREAM project has started.

I understand now why distributors in canada can't get anything right now.... all you guys are hording! Night force is popular up here for a high end tactical scope's. Personaly I would go with a .338 lapua magnum... mostly cause .50 components are scarce up here, and can't be reloaded with standard equipment.

Anyway good luck with the project!
 
i have been wanting to try and design a bushing that will alow the use of a CCI #250 (Large rifle mag primer) in a BMG casing. they are so much cheaper then the bmg primers.
 
I'd not go that path. The new tech that has allowed the latest and greatest load data (safe load pressures) won't have anything that you can rely on SAFELY if you alter the primer. Do what you want to do, but you won't succeed in creating an accurate load. Let alone being safe. Best of Luck!
 
What a deer rifle. No need to field dress the deer. All that will be left is the tail and the antlers. <grin> Just jealous. Wish I had one. I am going after a water buffalo hopefully next fall. I am going to use a 45/70. Now don't judge too fast. I will be shooting a 300 grain Nosler partition with a muzzle velocity of over 2400 feet per second.
 
With a pre-made barrel you gonna miss all the fun of barrel making :) . Drilling, fluting, chambering, heat treating . Well, I am kidding - these are impossible w/o special tools,
especially for .50.

Make sure to stay safe and fire the first rounds via a remote release. What steel did u
use for the recvr and the bolt ?
 
Let us all know when are you going to fire that thing for the first time... i want to make sure to take cover just in case something blows up. :D :D Damn... squirrels beware!!!!
Mikel
 
JTknives said:
It is 100 percent legal as long as i don't live in California :rolleyes:, the muzzle break is a brand new cast blank that one of my bosses gave to me. he designed it for 50 cals and had a bunch cast a long while ago before this style was seen on other 50 cal rifles. the idea kinda got snatched from him. long story but in the end he got no credit for his design. but he has 2 left and he gave me one. its just a blank and needs to be drilled and taped and ground and polished. man I'm excited. i will have to wait for a scope as they are kinda price for a good one that can handle the recoil for this bad boy.
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You can still build .50 in Cali. it just is cambered in a .510 hybrid not .50 BMG.
 
The anti gun nuts have a serious problem with the 50bmg They have no idea what a 577 T rex can do compared to the 50.
 
JTknives said:
i have been wanting to try and design a bushing that will alow the use of a CCI #250 (Large rifle mag primer) in a BMG casing. they are so much cheaper then the bmg primers.
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I missed that part before I posted earlier. I might have to look, but I believe that LRM primers do not have enough heat to safely ignite that much powder. The BMG primers put out a lot more heat to ignite a 200+ grain powder load. But hey I could be wrong. Hodgdon shows 233gr for the 750gr and 248 for the 650.
 
fastcamo said:
and the 416 whips em both
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Although the 416 Barrett carrys more energy downrange, the 577 is a DG stopping round that carrys way more kinetic energy out of the muzzle for its intended purpose. I would love to shoot a 50 and the 416, but you would have to pay me a lot of money to shoot a T Rex. You know it's bad when the trigger guard smacks the trigger finger so hard it bruises.:eek: Sorry, I'll pass.
 
gixxer said:
I missed that part before I posted earlier. I might have to look, but I believe that LRM primers do not have enough heat to safely ignite that much powder. The BMG primers put out a lot more heat to ignite a 200+ grain powder load. But hey I could be wrong. Hodgdon shows 233gr for the 750gr and 248 for the 650.
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from what i have read it seams like i would expect about 2 hundred feet per sec decrease in speed.
 
I've got to relate two stories.

First,
My old friend Marvin, while was in the Navy back in the 1960's, could order any gun he wanted through the ships stores at Gvmt. cost when the ship was at sea ( that was the old days). .... and they would deliver it to the ship. He got it into his head he wanted a Winchester model 70 chambered in Win. .458 magnum. The rifle came and as soon as he was back from the cruise, he went out to the local gun shop for ammo. He bought a box of 5 rounds for $30 (about 10% of what the gun cost him) and drove way out into the country to try it out. He stopped by a big field with woods behind it and put a target on a tree about 200 yards away. He stood up and was preparing to shoot when it occurred to him that the gun might have a bit more recoil than his old 30-06. So, for his first shot, he went over to his beat up Monte Carlo, set the rifle on the roof , took aim and fired. He ended up about eight feet away from the car ,on his back, and with a dislocated shoulder. He got into the car, tossed the rifle in the back , and drove himself one handed to Portsmouth Naval Hospital, where they fix his shoulder. When he was leaving the hospital and walking to his car, the next morning, he realized he had neither rolled up the windows or locked his car. The rifle was still on the back seat and the ammo was still on the front passenger seat (That was the good old days.). Then he looked up and saw that the Landau top was peeled back about half way across. Seems the muzzle blast was as bad as the recoil.He sold the rifle a couple years ago, and tossed in a box of ammo with the other four rounds still in it. The car sits out behind his garage, it hasn't run in ten years....and the roof is still split.

Second,
An idiot that I know, but would not call a friend, had a body shop in an industrial district. Up against the back wall he had a sand box bullet trap about a foot thick made out of 3/4" plywood.Late at night he and his buddies would sit in the back and shoot .22 rifles and pistols for hours ,usually while drinking beer ( Here's your sign - stupid). One night a guy brought in a 30-06 to set the scope. They fixed up a jerry rig bench rest on a car hood and proceeded to shoot up a couple boxes of cheap surplus ammo.
A couple days later he was out behind the shop in the alleyway between his shop and the next building, and noticed that the cinder block had a big hole in the back wall....then he looked at the adjacent building (about 6 feet away) and saw little holes in its cinder blocks,too. As far as he could tell, the bullets never penetrated the inside of the next building. He quickly and quietly replaced his blocks, and patched the other wall's holes. Turned out the ammo was tungsten tipped armor piercing rounds.

Stacy

BTW,JT, I send your box out Wednesday.
 
bladsmth said:
I've got to relate two stories.

First,
My old friend Marvin, while was in the Navy back in the 1960's, could order any gun he wanted through the ships stores at Gvmt. cost when the ship was at sea ( that was the old days). .... and they would deliver it to the ship. He got it into his head he wanted a Winchester model 70 chambered in Win. .458 magnum.

Second,
Turned out the ammo was tungsten tipped armor piercing rounds.

Stacy

BTW,JT, I send your box out Wednesday.
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WOW, a pre 64 Mod 70 in 458? I would LOVE to have one of those for sure!

AP rounds? just goes to show that bad things can happen when you just randomly buy surplus ammo and shoot it where youre not supposed to!!
 
50 cal BMG. I used to shoot that. I built a Maadi Griffin and a custom bolt action what looks like the same plans you have. Make sure you double check that firing pin length before you test fire. I used to me a member of the 50 cal Shooters Association. PM me and I will send you my old issues. Careful with that thing!!
 
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