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Here is a picture of the biggest rifle i have ever seen! it is supposedly used to fire high velocity 50 BMG rounds with very little kick!
 
Posts: 121 | Location: Elmira, NY, USA | Registered: 20 February 2002Reply With Quote
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I think the gunbearer just quit...

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I've seen that pic before. It's allegedly a 20mm Vulcan.
 
Posts: 7658 | Location: near Austin, Texas, USA | Registered: 15 December 2000Reply With Quote
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Nah ... that's 500Grains' plainsgame rig.
 
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How come the amish guy isn't wearing a hat?
 
Posts: 457 | Location: Kentucky | Registered: 25 February 2002Reply With Quote
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You guys are crazy. That is the new Marlin in .17 Magnum Rimfire! :-)

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Posts: 487 | Location: Central Texas | Registered: 07 December 2001Reply With Quote
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In the words of Homer Simpson..."Yeah, I guess that's kinda big."

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Posts: 7123 | Location: The Rock (southern V.I.) | Registered: 27 February 2001Reply With Quote
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If you buy one of these, does it include a tracked vehicle and a turret?

 
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It was called 'The Warlock' and fired a .510" BMG bullet from a necked down 20mm Vulcan round and had a velocity of 3900fps or so. The army originally wanted to test the effects of a hit from 'regular' BMG round fired from two planes going head to head (thus the 1000fps increase needed). The barrels would show EXTREMELY heavy erosion after 100 or so rounds.

Other people have made them also. If I remember correctly, a guy named Skip Talbot (who holds the current .50BMG world records in both light 4" & heavy gun 2.6" at 1000yds with 5 shots) made one, but since the barrel would wear out so quickly, it couldn't hold a competative edge for even one match. They were built on McMillan's 'Fat Mac' action which is no longer in production.

 
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Bmg,
Any estimates of the weight of that thing?

Karl.

 
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I bet the guy in the picture is a midget or something
 
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Bmg,
Any estimates of the weight of that thing?

Karl.


Loaded or unloaded?

 
Posts: 1946 | Location: Michigun | Registered: 23 May 2002Reply With Quote
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Sure looks like a rifle but when does a rifle become an artillery piece?
 
Posts: 787 | Location: Melbourne, Australia | Registered: 15 January 2002Reply With Quote
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http://www.biggerhammer.net/barrett/wwwboard/barrettarchive.cgi?read=24406

Here is the info I have on it. I only read a quick blurb on it over a year ago and was going from memory. They don't show the weight, but I'm guessing 100# or so.

 
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You call that peashooters gun? HAHAHA!
 
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