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<blockquote data-quote="44-40" data-source="post: 2877521" data-attributes="member: 126985"><p>Shoot a 50BMG off the ground, the first time is a learning experience...seems like a dump truck of dirt, sticks, leaves, and dust, falling all over you and filling your eyes with dust. Won't do that again...gotta cover the ground for the brake.</p><p>What's really fun load up a 10 rd mag of 50BMG, get back 100 yds from a rock pile. Empty the mag as fast as you can, right port, left bolt, finger is always on the trigger so you can shoot fast...huge chunks of rock flying through the air, with a giant cloud of rock dust, and a cloud gunpowder smoke. </p><p>This 50BMG shot 51 caliber 5 shot .6" group at a hundred once with APIT and RL 25. The 50BMG shoots garbage powder, like IRECO 85, IMR 5010, H870, pretty well ...as well as H50 BMG, US86 and Trail Boss and Red Dot. Recoil ain't bad but there is a difference in 647 and 750 & 800 gr. bullrts. </p><p>It has 1500 rds on it, it is usually dead on cold bore...it will hit a half inch square 1st shot.</p><p>You can actually shoot the back of another bullet stuck in thick steel and drive it on through. Subs are accurate too, and APITs detonate on plywood at subsonic speeds...it is a factory rifle, with a 3 shot MOA guarantee, and, it does that alot, 5 shots, the barrel heats up and 1 1/4," to 1 1/2" are more common but that is with military 647 gr FMJ...not a match bullet. I have shot 70 rds of 50 BMG in one setting... the unbraked 416 Rigby only 18 rds, but it has shot close to half MOA with 400 barns and 3 shots ...solids go 1" to the right same height...plenty good for what it would be used for. The factory 338 Win Mag was hard to get 5 into an inch but it did and had to be bedded to accomplish that, but it's all factory after that. A hunting friend tried to buy the 338 off me for 20 yrs, saw me shoot squirrels and heads off grouse with it off hand, at close range..so it was accurate enough, and a good hunting tool for many years, for my type of hunting... never shoot from a bench. like once in 40 yrs as a guest ..quit the rifle club cause it was boring, and busy ...anything under 800 yds wasn't even considered a challenge, like shooting a tuna can and a 1/4" thick yogurt lid laying in the dirt on a log landing left by a logger at 820 yds 3 shots both hit once, one close miss over... for 20 yrs. LR shooting is as old as gunpowder, all the new calibers and gagets make it easier.</p><p>I shoot prone, sitting, off hand,... field accuracy is pretty darn good if ya practice. Old age and failing eyesight, just recovering from an eye injection, for ARMD, basically almost blind in my shooting eye, can not read with it...but in the Sunlight with a good scope I see crooked wavy reticle with a large dark spot, barely make out the target. I can still shoot a pretty good group, from the prone... it's just harder getting up. That's why the 70 rds of 50BMG on my 70th birthday...from the prone, of coares. Shoot what pleases ya, if the accuracy up to your ability and standards, it's most likely, good enough.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="44-40, post: 2877521, member: 126985"] Shoot a 50BMG off the ground, the first time is a learning experience...seems like a dump truck of dirt, sticks, leaves, and dust, falling all over you and filling your eyes with dust. Won't do that again...gotta cover the ground for the brake. What's really fun load up a 10 rd mag of 50BMG, get back 100 yds from a rock pile. Empty the mag as fast as you can, right port, left bolt, finger is always on the trigger so you can shoot fast...huge chunks of rock flying through the air, with a giant cloud of rock dust, and a cloud gunpowder smoke. This 50BMG shot 51 caliber 5 shot .6" group at a hundred once with APIT and RL 25. The 50BMG shoots garbage powder, like IRECO 85, IMR 5010, H870, pretty well ...as well as H50 BMG, US86 and Trail Boss and Red Dot. Recoil ain't bad but there is a difference in 647 and 750 & 800 gr. bullrts. It has 1500 rds on it, it is usually dead on cold bore...it will hit a half inch square 1st shot. You can actually shoot the back of another bullet stuck in thick steel and drive it on through. Subs are accurate too, and APITs detonate on plywood at subsonic speeds...it is a factory rifle, with a 3 shot MOA guarantee, and, it does that alot, 5 shots, the barrel heats up and 1 1/4," to 1 1/2" are more common but that is with military 647 gr FMJ...not a match bullet. I have shot 70 rds of 50 BMG in one setting... the unbraked 416 Rigby only 18 rds, but it has shot close to half MOA with 400 barns and 3 shots ...solids go 1" to the right same height...plenty good for what it would be used for. The factory 338 Win Mag was hard to get 5 into an inch but it did and had to be bedded to accomplish that, but it's all factory after that. A hunting friend tried to buy the 338 off me for 20 yrs, saw me shoot squirrels and heads off grouse with it off hand, at close range..so it was accurate enough, and a good hunting tool for many years, for my type of hunting... never shoot from a bench. like once in 40 yrs as a guest ..quit the rifle club cause it was boring, and busy ...anything under 800 yds wasn't even considered a challenge, like shooting a tuna can and a 1/4" thick yogurt lid laying in the dirt on a log landing left by a logger at 820 yds 3 shots both hit once, one close miss over... for 20 yrs. LR shooting is as old as gunpowder, all the new calibers and gagets make it easier. I shoot prone, sitting, off hand,... field accuracy is pretty darn good if ya practice. Old age and failing eyesight, just recovering from an eye injection, for ARMD, basically almost blind in my shooting eye, can not read with it...but in the Sunlight with a good scope I see crooked wavy reticle with a large dark spot, barely make out the target. I can still shoot a pretty good group, from the prone... it's just harder getting up. That's why the 70 rds of 50BMG on my 70th birthday...from the prone, of coares. Shoot what pleases ya, if the accuracy up to your ability and standards, it's most likely, good enough. [/QUOTE]
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