50bmg-.17

[protheroe]

Anyone seen this before.Coming up to nearly 5,900fps.Why would you even bother.

 

[HMM]

That's for shooting Rabbits,
On the moon.

Ps, won't fit in an Airgun

 

[ESpy]

Well that would take some annealing... *Just* necked down? Given the wall thickness of the neck at full size, isn't the final wall thickness a bit thin?

 

[protheroe]

Don't think there would be much left of any smaller game after being hit by that.17 hmr makes enough mess.

 

[Storcky]

Well it was first shown on April 1st 2017….

 

[protheroe]

just looked at that one.Doing mach 5.5

 

[AdrianP]

I think Mat over on Demolition Ranch needs to give one a go… lol

 

[Dubman]

Well it was first shown on April 1st 2017….

And there's the clue, April 1st.

 

[ThermionicValveTech]

Imagine how long the barrel would need to be to burn all that powder fully.

5100 FPS you're getting into the kind of speeds where stability becomes an issue because you can't spin the bullet fast enough to gyroscopically stabilise it without fear of it breaking up.

I mean if they've solved all those problems which I'm sure any good engineer can do then you're probably looking at a 5-600 yard bunny calibre.

I mean why not?

 

[metalman]

Would it register on my cheap chinese chrono i wonder

 

[Lukeypoodle]

Barrel life measurable in magazines I reckon.

 

[Rich79]

Barrel life measurable in magazines I reckon.

One shot zero, then one shot in use, then rebarrel.

 

[Neil123]

That is the most American thing I have ever seen
I know it's an April Fools joke but I bet somewhere in Texas there is a bloke going that would work.
The bullet would make Star Trek going to warp noises as you fired it