Hi

GOt an itch to get a 50MBG

any advice
Any thing definitely dont do?

Any advise would be appreciated

I have just started down this route - the main requirement by my FEO was to join the appropriate club, i.e. the FCSA and be approved as a full shooting member. I'm off to Sennybridge next weekend to shoot with them and have a look at a few rifles before writing my shopping list.

I have also been in contact with someone who has their .50BMG cleared for use on private ground, having managed to satisfy the requirements for military-level safety areas. I have access to 17,000 hectares of Scottish hill, so I'm hoping this makes the grade. If not, I am only an hour or so from WMS (3000 metres+) and Sennybridge (1800 metres) in mid-Wales - the number of ranges with the distance and approval for .50BMGs is so limited in the UK, with the next nearest being Warcop. I'm hoping that one day they re-open the Radnor field firing range to private shooting clubs, as this is only 10 miles down the road and practically in my elderly mother's back garden - it would be handy to have a 2,500m range just down the road, rated up to 40mm...

The guy to speak to about UK-based .50BMG ownership is John Masefield, secretary of the UK Fifty Calibre Shooting Association.

As for rifles, the Rolls Royce option in the UK seems to be the Accuracy International, given the challenge of importing more exotic items from the USA to a pro-terror pro-Islamic socialist republic like Great Britain , but I'm told that the favourite club gun is currently the TTRS modular rifle with the option of interchangeable .50BMG, .338 Lapua Magnum and .308 barrels. The scope of choice is the Zeiss Hensoldt fixed x24, built for these rifles, I think.

Adam.

Thanks adam

I am the first paid up member with Andrew when he opened up

I am really planning to shoot it big time when I retire in a few years time in Canada

They have just scrapped the registry so I have booked a container to ship everything there

50 just miss the requirement for an explosive licence

Basically the most difficult element is time I think

I might see you one day at wms

Adam

I think I am going to get a 408 cheytac

Spoke to my friends in Canada they have all switched in the last few years

Unbelievable ballistics

They are plinking rocks out to 2000 + metres

I thought all the .408 C'tac users across the pond were rushing out to trade them for the newer, faster, flatter Barret .416 ? I just want the biggest, most brutal and loudest...so .50BMG it is for me, although I think I'm going to splash out on the Accuracy International as everything else is either unavailable or overly agricultural (having seen them in the flesh now, the Steyr and the older Armalite both look like they've been made from Meccano and scaffolding tubes).

I am told they would lov the Barrett but in Canada cheytac seems to be in vogue at the moment

I agree ai seems to be the best made out of the lot

Unfortunately, we will never have the opportunit in Germany, to shoot often on more than 300m. I've still not managed, to go there. Plane is but the last 3 years.
http://www.mszu.de/schiessbahnen?content=s8300
But the .408Chey Tac would have anything..... Ohh God, lead me not into temptation .....


http://www.webshop.roedale.de/...al---408CheyTac.html

Yesterday, I got some empty brass, after nearly two years delivery time. With the bullets, I have had, the round looks impressive.


And "yes" I´m a little bit cracy.

Martin

AR50 is the best accuracy for the dollar, with mild recoil.

The LEE 50bmg reloading kit will pay for itself VERY quickly if you shoot much at all.

Bulk plinking ammo can be loaded CHEAP. Lookup WC872, I think its $39 for 8lbs. Stock up. South African FMJ bullets can be had cheap. Find some 750 AMAX bullets for match shooting.

HAVE FUN!

Never asked the FEO when I was there, but would the .416 version be "easier" for them OK?