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To: radar101
the idiots in the MSM should do a little research

the .50 5caliber Beowulf is a .223 or heavy steroids not a heavy .50caliber MG round....what a bunch of maroons..


5 posted on 05/04/2009 5:01:09 AM PDT by Vaquero ("an armed society is a polite society" Robert A. Heinlein)
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To: Vaquero

It uses a true .500 caliber bullet, loaded ammunition can be had from the factory in either a 400-grain soft point or a 325-grain hollow point.
Velocities run around 1800 and 1950 feet-per-second.


11 posted on 05/04/2009 5:05:47 AM PDT by Leisler ("It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged."~G.K. Chesterton)
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To: Vaquero
.223 on steroids? Why do you say that? I was under the impression that the 6.5 Grendel was the .223 replacement from Alexander Arms and the .50 Beowulf was done as an intellectual exercise to push the limits of the ar-16/15 platform.
46 posted on 05/04/2009 8:00:53 AM PDT by Durus (The People have abdicated our duties and anxiously hopes for just two things, "Bread and Circuses")
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To: Vaquero

Jeez, anytime any idiot in the LSM sees .50 caliber, they think it means a .50 BMG. A .50 BMG would have a hell of a recoil in a 30” long rifle that weighs 6 lbs.

But that 50 Beowulf would kick butt against large game.


72 posted on 05/04/2009 4:44:15 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Socialism is the belief that most people are better off if everyone was equally poor and miserable.)
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