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416 Barrett vs. 375/408 SOE
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<blockquote data-quote="James Jones" data-source="post: 115883" data-attributes="member: 8843"><p>Hey Dave their was some discussion about the pressure limitations with the 50BMG cases. I've heard that they won't go past about 50,000psi , it would seem to me that if you could find a way to get cases to handle pressures like the WSM's do (60,000+psi) that it would realy unlock the hidden beast in the big 50's case.</p><p>Like wise if the Chy-Tac case if able to handle pressures in the 60,000psi range how do you think a 408 case necked up to 50 cal would do?</p><p></p><p>I read an artical once about a 50bmg that Robar made , it was called a Desert Rhino , it only had a 18" barrel and they reported that their was only a 200fps velocity loss over the big Barret that the Marines use. If this is the case it seems that the 50BMG is a pretty effecient round and if a guy were able to get good brass he could build a 50 with a 24-26" barrel and not realy be loosing anything to the 36" barreld guns in production now</p><p></p><p>I don't know maybe I've been hanging around the NASA engeniers to much</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="James Jones, post: 115883, member: 8843"] Hey Dave their was some discussion about the pressure limitations with the 50BMG cases. I've heard that they won't go past about 50,000psi , it would seem to me that if you could find a way to get cases to handle pressures like the WSM's do (60,000+psi) that it would realy unlock the hidden beast in the big 50's case. Like wise if the Chy-Tac case if able to handle pressures in the 60,000psi range how do you think a 408 case necked up to 50 cal would do? I read an artical once about a 50bmg that Robar made , it was called a Desert Rhino , it only had a 18" barrel and they reported that their was only a 200fps velocity loss over the big Barret that the Marines use. If this is the case it seems that the 50BMG is a pretty effecient round and if a guy were able to get good brass he could build a 50 with a 24-26" barrel and not realy be loosing anything to the 36" barreld guns in production now I don't know maybe I've been hanging around the NASA engeniers to much [/QUOTE]
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