You got a .50BMG? That's cute...

[IronMonster]

My dad has one of the 16" rounds test fired out of the Navel ordinance factory in Pocatello Idaho. The 16" guns where designated 50 caliber/16" meaning 16" bore and the barrel is 50 times the length of the bore. The bullet weighs 2700 lbs. 96 lands each about 3/16 deep, it twists twice in its 66 foot long barrel launching the ton and a half projectile up to 42,000 yards

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[edslhead]

Good gravy!! Ya got a picture of the mag for that?

 

[ZA_Survivalist]

What ammo tax% would seattle put on that beast?

 

[clearconscience]

Because shooting twice is just silly!

 

[Certaindeaf]

Riflemen fight their way to that. that's actually a joke because.. explaining a joke is..

 

[Certaindeaf]

The interesting thing is, concerning pistol-rifle-artillery, our pistol man Elmer Keith graduated (no pun) to artillery, pioneering duplex loads and tube ignition that are used to this day.
Sure carried a handgun though.

 

[Velzey]

Now that right there is a family heirloom if I've ever seen one!

 

[Member 5605]

Oh the stories they would tell if they could talk... well besides "boom"...

 

[IronMonster]

So how do you get one of these? Well it was pretty simple back in the day. You looked for the 20 foot crater in the foot hills outside of town and you dug till you hit metal. They guy my dad got this one from dug up three, the other two are the posts for his front gate.

 

[v0lcom13sn0w]

does it shoot sub MOA?

 

[IronMonster]

So... MOA at 42,000 yards is a bit bigger than a half mile circle? Around 3500 feet if I did my math right.

 

[v0lcom13sn0w]

give or take

 

[IronMonster]

You know it's a big gun when a exceptional group is around a half mile across.

 

[v0lcom13sn0w]

You know it's a big gun when a exceptional group is around a half mile across.

im trying to verify your calculations. how are you getting a half mile?

 

[v0lcom13sn0w]

1 MOA at 42000 yrd is 420yrd which is 1260 feet which is about 1/4mile. maybe im wrong idk.

 

[Who The F R U]

Not as cool as a Naval gun but you can actually shoot it with us !!
76mm pushing a 12lbs AP bullet out of a 18 ' barrel @4200fps

 

[Member 5605]

Not as cool as a Naval gun but you can actually shoot it with us !!
76mm pushing a 12lbs AP bullet out of a 18 ' barrel @4200fps

Now that I can stand behind. No way in hell I want to be standing in FRONT of that.

 

[IronMonster]

1 MOA at 42000 yrd is 420yrd which is 1260 feet which is about 1/4mile. maybe im wrong idk.

I think we are both wrong.

1"@ 100 yards so 4200" @ 42,000 yards so 350 feet, I had one too many zeros in my head

 

[U201491]

You know it's a big gun when a exceptional group is around a half mile across.

The shockwave from the blast is also big.

 

[pdrake]

I think we are both wrong.

1"@ 100 yards so 4200" @ 42,000 yards so 350 feet, I had one too many zeros in my head