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<blockquote data-quote="budlight" data-source="post: 456166" data-attributes="member: 2939"><p>Not your common rifle, But you can read about it in German infantry guns of WW2. A family friend was a officer left in Germany for the rebuilding after the war. He had brought home one of these light anti-tank weapons. When I was a young lad back it the 60's. he pulled it out of the gun collection for several shots at dead tracked catapillar on somebodies farm. It blew clear through some monster desiel motor block with ease at 200 some yards </p><p></p><p>It had a 42 0r 46 inch barrel and a case as big as a american 50 cal. The bullet was a soft copper 9mm around a tungston core of less than 8mm. What made this gun unique was the barrel started out at 9mm and constricted down to the 8mm size at the muzzle. It was tested right at the 5000+ fps and was supposed to go through a couple inches of armor at 400 meters.</p><p></p><p>He was a total speed freak and aquired one of Mr. PO Ackleys 270AI's necked to .22 with a 28 inch barrel. I remember going out after reloading with something like 62 grains of H870 with some kind of 50 ish grain bullets and it put pin holes in the paper at 100 yards. So he eventually went to heavier bullet weights and less powder. Back then nobody had Chronos, but it was right at the end of mr. ackleys life</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="budlight, post: 456166, member: 2939"] Not your common rifle, But you can read about it in German infantry guns of WW2. A family friend was a officer left in Germany for the rebuilding after the war. He had brought home one of these light anti-tank weapons. When I was a young lad back it the 60's. he pulled it out of the gun collection for several shots at dead tracked catapillar on somebodies farm. It blew clear through some monster desiel motor block with ease at 200 some yards It had a 42 0r 46 inch barrel and a case as big as a american 50 cal. The bullet was a soft copper 9mm around a tungston core of less than 8mm. What made this gun unique was the barrel started out at 9mm and constricted down to the 8mm size at the muzzle. It was tested right at the 5000+ fps and was supposed to go through a couple inches of armor at 400 meters. He was a total speed freak and aquired one of Mr. PO Ackleys 270AI's necked to .22 with a 28 inch barrel. I remember going out after reloading with something like 62 grains of H870 with some kind of 50 ish grain bullets and it put pin holes in the paper at 100 yards. So he eventually went to heavier bullet weights and less powder. Back then nobody had Chronos, but it was right at the end of mr. ackleys life [/QUOTE]
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