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 Just received my 8mm X 50BMG , IMP and will post range results later today.  rogerOld age is a high price to pay for maturity!!! Some never pay and some pay and never reap the reward. Wisdom comes with age! Sometimes age comes alone.. | ||
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I guess everyone thought this to be an April fools joke!--------------------------------------------- You're right  rogerOld age is a high price to pay for maturity!!! Some never pay and some pay and never reap the reward. Wisdom comes with age! Sometimes age comes alone.. | |||
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Well dang it Roger, I was standing by waiting to see the results. Your little Gremlins gave it away. But, you know what, I'll bet you'll get guys to thinking, hmmmmm, 8mm/50BMG, maybe that would work. Ray Arizona Mountains | |||
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It sure would let us use up a bunch of cheap 5010 and 5020! rogerOld age is a high price to pay for maturity!!! Some never pay and some pay and never reap the reward. Wisdom comes with age! Sometimes age comes alone.. | |||
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Make it 338 to use the 300 and 350 grainers with insano BC's! Love shooting precision and long range. Big bores too! Recent college grad, started a company called MK Machining where I'm developing a bullpup rifle chassis system.  | |||
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 300 grain capacity and a 8mm bore damn bart that really sounds fun!  Sic Semper Tyrannis | |||
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Already been done a multitude of times.....have to come up with something more outlandish to fool us. | |||
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I think you are right and look it only took you 27 days. I think prior to WW II the poles came up with a similar anti tank rifle. Either it didn't work very good or they didn't have enough of them!  rogerOld age is a high price to pay for maturity!!! Some never pay and some pay and never reap the reward. Wisdom comes with age! Sometimes age comes alone.. | |||
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How about necking a .375 or .400 into that BMG case? You know what I think? I think the fox among all them dogs is there for the pre-hunt safety briefing... | |||
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It took me 27 days to stuble over your post and another 13 days to trip over it again!!  | |||
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It's been done. State Arms used to offer a rifle chambered in that round, called it the Mach V. Here is a comparative pic of the .375/50BMG round. Jacketed lead in .375 could be sent down the tube @3700 fps. Barnes copper solids @4400fps and Klaus sold bronze solids that would withstand 5200+fps! Since the previous owner, Klaus Horstkamp, was killed in a truck rollover, State Arms was bought out by an employee and renamed East Ridge Gun Company. The Mach V is no longer listed on their website, but I'm sure they still have the reamer. "The irony is, if you're willing to kill a perpetrator, you probably won't have to." Massad Ayoob | |||
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"The irony is, if you're willing to kill a perpetrator, you probably won't have to." Massad Ayoob | |||
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What would barrel life be like? Anywhere similar to something like a 204 or 220 Swift? Or more extreme yet? Love shooting precision and long range. Big bores too! Recent college grad, started a company called MK Machining where I'm developing a bullpup rifle chassis system. | |||
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I have no personal experience here, and not many Mach Vs were sold, so there's not much out there about them, but I'm guessing barrel life would be similar to a .220 Swift...back in the '30s. Maybe worse. "The irony is, if you're willing to kill a perpetrator, you probably won't have to." Massad Ayoob | |||
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You could do a case capacity to bore ratio on both comparison and come up with a pretty educated guess.  rogerOld age is a high price to pay for maturity!!! Some never pay and some pay and never reap the reward. Wisdom comes with age! Sometimes age comes alone.. | |||
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You would need to come up with 3 guesses. One for the jacketed (Sierras?), one for the Barnes bullets, another for those bronze bullets. The jacketed and copper bullets just can't hold up to the rpm of a fully stoked load. There would most likely be a big difference in the rate of erosion, from one load to another. I have an internal/external ballistic program that will calculate expansion ratios, I could figure in the dimensions of a .50 BMG case necked down to .375 and even come up with some loads, if there is a slow enough powder in the database. Ahh, maybe one rainy day. "The irony is, if you're willing to kill a perpetrator, you probably won't have to." Massad Ayoob | |||
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Is 5010 or 5020 in your data base? fishing is nice  rogerOld age is a high price to pay for maturity!!! Some never pay and some pay and never reap the reward. Wisdom comes with age! Sometimes age comes alone.. | |||
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Hey guys did I mention that y'all boys are reinventing the square wheel again?? The cartridge already exists and is in use. It's on Ammoguide, Pac-Nor does the chamber and barrel, etc., etc.,......about the only thingthat hasn't been done on the BMG case is a 10 Bore short auto pistol.  | |||
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I knew you were kidding, you have a 50 BMG necked down to a phonograph needle, but thats just between us, none of these baby boomers know what a phonograph needle is! Ray Atkinson Atkinson Hunting Adventures 10 Ward Lane, Filer, Idaho, 83328 208-731-4120 rayatkinsonhunting@gmail.com | |||
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