Many have been converted over to 50 cal for the civilian market.
Posted on 08/02/2013 8:43:43 AM PDT by NotYourAverageDhimmi
f you want to squeeze off a few rounds from a .905-caliber rifle, you'll need two things: muscles and cash.
An Ohio-based gun company has developed the world's first .905-caliber rifle that - at .905 - is the highest-caliber rifle in the world.
And with bullets that cost more than $40 a piece, you'll probably think twice before pulling the trigger.
'It's a little scary,' one user said of the gun in a Youtube video that demonstrates just how powerful the weapon can be.
The rifle is the creation of SSK Industries and is essentially a shoulder-mounted cannon, with rounds that look like mini mortar shells.
The rifle fires rounds about 2,100 feet per second with roughly 254,000 foot-pounds of muzzle energy. The gun also has 2,777 foot-pounds of recoil energy, which essentially makes it as powerful - and has about as much 'kick' - as firing 10 .30-6 rifles at the same time.
Bullet grain - the measurement used to essentially weigh ammunition - for a typical sniper rifle is usually about 200. For the .905-caliber rifle, it can be up to 2,500.
The gun featured in several Youtube videos is one of only three that the gun manufacturer has produced - and is the smallest of the three.
The prototype used in the videos weighs only 50 pounds. The other two weigh about 110 pounds each.
So, if you want to fire a .905-caliber rifle, you might have to drain your bank account - and go to the gym.
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Yep...definately a DD...(esp. to your shoulder)
How long before Feinswine and Bloomturd claim terrorists are getting these at gun shows?
Even bigger than an .88 magnum.
“It shoots through schools.”
I saw an earlier incarnation of this story that mentioned they can shoot it without an NFA permit as long as they use black powder (i.e.., not smokeless). One guy in an earlier video ended up fracturing his clavicle after shooting it.
I saw one of those converted 55 cal. once.
At ~24mm, it is a larger bore diameter than any shoulder fired anti-tank rifle created, but then some black powder rifles exceeded 30mm.
It is obviously much more powerful than the black powder guns, but then those 20mm anti-tank rifles are more powerful than this.
Thanks for posting this.
“And with bullets that cost more than $40 a piece, you’ll probably think twice before pulling the trigger.”
I am certain that the brass is reusable and the low velocities mentioned along with high projectile weight would make this ammunition a perfect casting and reloading project. I am sure that “practice” rounds could be reloaded for just a couple of dollars a piece that way.
Wait no longer, the Russians have had them for decades ZSU-23
I’ll take “things I don’t want within 50 yards of my shoulder,” for 100, Alex.
Weiner Bullets.
Oh, it’s .905, I thought they were .09.
Never mind.
I wonder if Slide Fire makes a bump-fire stock for this bad boy.
Other than possible military applications of what use is it?
And with bullets that cost more than $40 a piece, you'll probably think twice before pulling the trigger.”
With a 905 cal rifle The cost of the cartridge wouldn't be what made me think twice before firing it!
I will have to view the vid from home, cant from work...
Whale hunting?
Those woodcocks have very sharp beaks.
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