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Posted by Terry Hunter (Member # 58) on December 14, 2003, 11:25 AM:
Today I got to shoot the gun.My cousin bought one to hunt boar with.The recoil is bad to the bone.It makes my 44 mag seem like a 22 rimfire.My hand and wrist is sore.
Posted by Leonard (Member # 2) on December 14, 2003, 12:38 PM:
Well, I suppose there is always an interest in powerful firearms? Has almost no appeal for me, but you deserve credit for pulling the trigger, amigo.
Good hunting. LB
Posted by Jack Roberts (Member # 13) on December 14, 2003, 05:40 PM:
How does the recoil compare to a 308 pistol?
Jack
Posted by Terry Hunter (Member # 58) on December 19, 2003, 11:39 AM:
I have a 308 in a pistol.The recoil from the 50 caliber is much higher.The bullets we were using were heavier than the 308.
Posted by Barndog (Member # 255) on January 06, 2004, 05:14 PM:
I've shot a .50 cal pistol, recoil is a little hard, but what impressed me was when I stood behind someone shooting it and still felt the boom. I just shoot a .50 cal bolt rifle. We were shooting apples at 500 yards with a 20 mile cross wind. Held right on with the cross hairs, what I couldn't believe is that there wasn't anything left of the apple not even apple juice. I wish I had that rifle on a few stands when you can see em out there at a 1000 yards and won't come in. Any one shoot a coyote with a .50?
Posted by Jack Roberts (Member # 13) on January 06, 2004, 08:35 PM:
If you held right on at 500 yards in a 20 mph crosswind and hit it, you were not sighted in correctly to start with. The BC of the 50BMG is about 1.000 not 10.000.
Jack
Posted by Leonard (Member # 2) on January 07, 2004, 03:27 PM:
Well, Jack. It seems to me that it is perfectly plausable that these guys could have been zeroed at 500 yards. It also seems that when he is talking about holding right on, he probably is refering to windage, without allowing for a 20MPH crosswind. I see nothing exceptionally odd with that statement.
Of course, that accuracy, hitting an apple at 500, considering the sub MOA, in wind; not every 50BMG is capable of that, you know?
Good hunting. LB
Posted by Jack Roberts (Member # 13) on January 07, 2004, 08:46 PM:
We seem to have a communication problem here.
I was not questioning the accuracy, or the ability to be exactly sighted in at 500 yards.
What I was trying to point out is that the POI at 500 yards will change enough with a 20mph wind to not be able to hit an apple.
I have to interpolate because my ballistics programs don't go that high. But a 1.000 BC bullet at 3000 fps will deflect about 11-14 inches in a 20 mph crosswind at 500 yards. So if you are perfectly accurate and sight on the exact center of the apple, you will need an apple somewhere from 22 to 28 inches in diameter to hit it.
I am interpolating so could be off 25% or so, but even then, I haven't seen many 15 inch diameter apples.
Jack
Posted by Barndog (Member # 255) on January 08, 2004, 04:48 PM:
I wouldn't believe it if I'd heard either but I was there. We didn't hit the apples every single time, I got a friend in Iraq on a .50 cal machine gun. He tells me that he's seen the flesh tear on guys faces when a round comes close enough, without any contact. Now that is hard to believe. But it is an impressive round the .50 cal rifle assosiation competitions begin with a 10 inch plate at a 1000 yards and go out from there. One thing about shoting that rifle is double ear protection is a must, and a box of tissues is handy when the blast trains your sinus. When it was the other guys turn to shoot the rest of us sat in a pick up about 20 yards behind the shooter. The blast would vibrate the rearview mirror on the windshield, it would also kick up about 2 inches of dust at about 30-60 degrees from the end of the muzzle with a distance of about 20 feet, but it felt like a .308 round as far as kick.
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