I recently read that the 50mm Barrett has the same impact at maximum range as a 9mm fired point blank. Holy crap.

 

I'm gonna be in Texas around the Denton area in late May so maybe I'll just drive out to the edge of town and start shouting at things?

 

You can shout all you want. Hell, they'll let you do that in the city. You might want to go a bit further out if you actually want to fire a gun.

 

I'd prefer you did it in Austin, nothing there that will be missed.

 

Ok, for clarity's sake, it's the .50 BMG (which stands for Browning Machine Gun, the Ma-Deuce, the M2 you see mounted on Hummers in movies), as in half-inch, not 50mm. It's metric equivalent is a 12.7mm round, something used in eastern european rifles and machine guns (think USSR). A 50mm round is about 2 inches wide. They shoot those out of cannons attached to trailers, guys.

Are they talking maximum range or maximum *effective* range? I can shoot a .50 BMG across a valley to a point five miles away if I really want to, but I doubt I'm going to hit what I aim at unless it's a pretty big area. Then again, I could throw a .50 caliber bullet at you and have the same force impact as a 9mm.

Kidding, kidding. Don't you 9mm fans get your ******* in a twist.

 

Yep about $6.50 a shell...very expensive habit!

 

 

It's not the most expensive, believe it or not. You can get match-grade, hand-loaded .50 BMG rounds for upwards of $20/round, and that's not even the high end of custom loads. A lot of competition shooters sell their loading services to others and make a pretty penny off of it. You either have to have enough money to buy a Ferrari sitting in your bank account to afford some of them, or be a professional shooter who works with the loader personally. Most of them won't load for someone who will not allow access to the weapon they're loading for. It's pretty much essential to get the load as precise as necessary for competitions. Store-bought loads are not nearly so precise regardless what gun they're pushed out of, but some loads (the .30-.378 that I shoot with my Wby for example) are quite expensive on their own because of their rarity. The .30-.378 is considered (or was) a wildcat round and not a lot of people shoot it or buy the ammo. Thus the high price. I'm actually looking to sell mine specifically because of that. I can shoot a .338 Lapua for about half the price it costs me to take my Wby to the range.

 

Dude, I have to come shooting with you sometime. Here I am thinking how cool it is for me and my friends to hit a target 300 yds away...

 

It's just a matter of the right equipment (rifle/scope/caliber/load/etc) and some practice. These days you can take someone off the street and in a day have them hitting 1000 yd targets; the technology has come a long way since vietnam.

 

I soo want to do that someday!

 

I thought we were friends Matt

 

Only if you're his target!

 

We need to go shooting sometime. You know, when you're not at volleyball/softball/work.

 

If Gary has free time to go shooting, I think it is time he has another kid. Unless of course he is "shooting blanks"

 

I'll be in H town for the last club volleyball tournament of Zoe's career...yay

And the last club tournament for the year for Paige who still has 4 more years of club play if she keeps playing

 

Then I definitely need to make it to that one.

 

Well there's always high school playoffs next fall

Last year we played the first round game in Gonzales against South San

 

Yeah but I'd hate to miss the last time she's playing club ball. Besides I need to get down to Houston to look at some trucks anyway.

 

Regan and the wife should be there at some point