50 BMG bottle opener

[nick425]

I would've rather had them as live rounds to fire.

Plus real men can open bottles with the edge of a table.

Lighter or knife for me.

 

[raftman]

I've heard that claims from folks that've served in Afghanistan that the Russian 12.7mm rounds make the best bottle openers. There's gotta be a joke in there somewhere.

 

[PinkhamR]

Yep, they use them to break off the top of the bottles .....

 

[SonicBlue03]

I've heard that claims from folks that've served in Afghanistan that the Russian 12.7mm rounds make the best bottle openers. There's gotta be a joke in there somewhere.

"In Soviet Union, bottle open YOU!"

 

[ridurall]

Well Randy and I have plenty of 50 BMG ammo to feed our Bohica pets but finding the time to shoot them up where we can really turn them lose at a mile is the hard part. If it's not to hot, cold, windy or whatever else you can think of it can be tough to find the time. I just purchased my wife a bulldozer so we can build horse trails on our land and I'm going to use it to build a longer safe rifle range.

 

[MA Duce]

Gee...I hope you dug the thermite out of the base of the projectile.......

 

[Chameleon]

I feel like I should order one of these if you are still building and selling them. Let me know and I'll make something happen.

 

[ridurall]

I've cut those open with my Dremil tool and cut off wheel and there is only a little bit of Thermite inbetween the steel penetrator and the copper jacket. It's really got to hit something hard and fast to set it off. Even hitting dirt at 2000' per second won't do the trick. It's also less then a teaspoon in quanty. Not enough to burn through the spoon. I can make them with regular ball ammo but the API rounds look cooler and for some reason I can get them for a better price in quanty. In the long run I wouldn't worry about it one bit. I've got a house full of loaded ammo with those bullets. If someone wants something different it's no problem, just tell me but the API is more cool.

 

[ridurall]

I feel like I should order one of these if you are still building and selling them. Let me know and I'll make something happen.

Just let me know, I made 4 last evening and only have 2 of them sold so far. I take PayPal or check or money order.

 

[Chameleon]

Will do rid. I don't get paid until next wednesday though so if you sell them by then I won't be upset lol.

 

[ridurall]

Don't worry I can always make more.

 

[Chameleon]

Good to know.

 

[ridurall]

Pinkhamr just talked me into posting a thread in the part-accessory-classifieds portion of this forum.

http://www.northwestfirearms.com/fo...m-50-bmg-inert-bottle-openers.html#post330621

 

[PinkhamR]

Ron has started a thread for these in Parts and Accessories:

http://www.northwestfirearms.com/fo...46059-custom-50-bmg-inert-bottle-openers.html

 

[MA Duce]

I've cut those open with my Dremil tool and cut off wheel and there is only a little bit of Thermite inbetween the steel penetrator and the copper jacket. It's really got to hit something hard and fast to set it off. Even hitting dirt at 2000' per second won't do the trick. It's also less then a teaspoon in quanty. Not enough to burn through the spoon. I can make them with regular ball ammo but the API rounds look cooler and for some reason I can get them for a better price in quanty. In the long run I wouldn't worry about it one bit. I've got a house full of loaded ammo with those bullets. If someone wants something different it's no problem, just tell me but the API is more cool.

Yeah...I'm kinda familiar with that round.
We used to get judged in anti-mine exercises by the number of rounds taken to sink a 55 gal barrel weighted to float with just the top third sticking out of the water. If you added five gallons of gas and a double handful of soap powder to the water used for ballast, a hit with a single round in the standard 4API1T belt loading would produce spectacular results...and lower the rounds required!!!

 

[ridurall]

As a GI I had lots of fun with explosives and shooting stuff the typical Air Force Guy didn't get a chance to mess with. I was friends with the commander of 7th Group Special Forces and he would envite me out to their "range days" when they would shoot everything from suppressed .22 LR up to their 106 recoilless rifle. I was in gun lovers heaven. Then we got to blow up what they didn't want to turn back in.

 

[salmonriverjohn]

Funny, in my younger days I made em into pipes with a 30-06 for a bowel.

Boy but didnt that brass heat up quickly though

 

[MA Duce]

Funny, in my younger days I made em into pipes with a 30-06 for a bowel.

Yeah, I READ about guys using a barrel lug out of a 1911 and sweating it to a .50 brass for a bowl. But then who knows???

 

[PinkhamR]

Just spoke with Ron today and he has sold over 100 of these so far ..... listed on AR15.Com too ....

 

[ridurall]

While Randy was at my house showing me his new 460 Rowland and I was using a 50 BMG chamber hone on his Bohica chamber I got my Foredom tool in. Wow what an improvement over using a Dremel tool that I wore out making the bottle openers. This 1/6 HP should make a big difference in making these. The chuck is a much better chuck then the aftermarket on on my Dremel tool. The Foredom is an amazing tool that should help me get these out without staying up until 2 or 3 am like last night.