Ben589,

A 416 Rigby chambered Marlin 336 would make a nice little walking varminter to go with that 20 mm Lahti Marlin 336 for the DG.

ASS_CLOWN

Yeah, the folks around here would think I'd really lost it then if I showed that pair to 'em as my deer rifle and my squirrel gun.

Folks used to rag me bad enough when I wanted a 50 BMG ... with stuff like "man, what the **** do you need with that?"

I'd tell 'em it was because I was tired of always losing my brass down at the range.

Geesh, and here I was daydreaming about rechambering a Marlin 336 in .416 Rigby and then I get to this thread ...

Makes my own daydream look pretty humble.

The Barrett XM-109 and the 25x29 Spin Stabilized Grenade are spin offs from the Objective Crew Served Weapon (OCSW) program. Barrett made some relatively minor modifications to its existing platform to accommodate this larger round but testing revealed that the recoil level still exceeded the max limit set by the military. Interestingly, there is nothing new under the sun, as this round (albeit in 25mm) seems quite similar to the old 20mm x 72 RB Oerlikon SSG or the 30x86B Aden LV (almost identical to the 30x85B for the Mauser MK 213) **credit to Anthony Williams and his outstanding website http://www.quarry.nildram.co.uk/**

As to obtaining one of these in the US, the paperwork is no worse than for a suppressor or fully automatic weapon and not that big of a deal. I would venture a guess that this 25 mm variant cannot be purchased in the civilian market even as a DD due to its status as an implement of warfare (just like importation of Russian 13.7 ammo is not ^supposed^ to be feasible )

For the 50BMG, you can get them even easier, a number of companies now build "upper conversion" kits that mate to existing AR-15 lower receivers, and now the only paper work associated with purchasing a 50BMG rifle is a sales slip, provided you already own an AR-15.

Ya gotta love this country (that's why I moved here )

For big game, perhaps a little overbore ... nah, you can never have too much gun ... it would make field dressing a bull elephant quicker, one shot and just bring the tupperware

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Alf-Your right and it can be had in 14.5 x 114mm Russian or
20 x 83.5mm MG151 cartridge,We got some 14.5 cases and
named a whole bunch of wildcat cases the HBE series for those wanting bottlenecked cases with big shoulders, and some power in 50 cal
,550, 585, 620, 700, and 12 ga.Just got to find big berdan primers for them.You got any there in SA? Ed.

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Is that a 20mm Kurtz?

Yes Alf

It is the 20mm x 83,5mm
Very impresive "gun"

Cheers,

Andr�