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Silly 50 BMG Question
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<blockquote data-quote="John Klingenberg" data-source="post: 2051955" data-attributes="member: 107749"><p>It's because it takes a lot of metal to contain that much inertia not so much the pressures. Theres two to three times the amount of metal in a .50 versus a "regular" rifle. The price of premium certified steels is high. Then factor in skilled labor to machine it. It takes longer the bigger it is. It also takes more tooling to machine that much metal. If you havent bought carbide inserts lately you would be amazed what it costs to tool and replace quality machine tooling. It costs me 27.00 a piece for one triangular insert. There may be a dozen of them on a facing tool. Add in any kind of shape such as round or trap and they're more. Custom grinds are over a 100.00 apiece and I live 6 miles from the grinding shop. If you call a service guy out to work on your Haas CNC machine which you may have dozens of you're talking thousands. I worked at LaRue awhile (not a fan) they have a literal warehouse size shop with lines of CNC machinery. What they spend on tooling a month would fuel several families for a year. That's why it's expensive. You pay for the company as well as the product. You also get to deal with a premium company. It costs money to offer the customer service Barrett does.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="John Klingenberg, post: 2051955, member: 107749"] It's because it takes a lot of metal to contain that much inertia not so much the pressures. Theres two to three times the amount of metal in a .50 versus a "regular" rifle. The price of premium certified steels is high. Then factor in skilled labor to machine it. It takes longer the bigger it is. It also takes more tooling to machine that much metal. If you havent bought carbide inserts lately you would be amazed what it costs to tool and replace quality machine tooling. It costs me 27.00 a piece for one triangular insert. There may be a dozen of them on a facing tool. Add in any kind of shape such as round or trap and they're more. Custom grinds are over a 100.00 apiece and I live 6 miles from the grinding shop. If you call a service guy out to work on your Haas CNC machine which you may have dozens of you're talking thousands. I worked at LaRue awhile (not a fan) they have a literal warehouse size shop with lines of CNC machinery. What they spend on tooling a month would fuel several families for a year. That's why it's expensive. You pay for the company as well as the product. You also get to deal with a premium company. It costs money to offer the customer service Barrett does. [/QUOTE]
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