6mm-50BMG

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Is there any wildcats from the 50 BMG that shoot a 6mm or anything at all really



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A 17-300 Ultra Mag or a 17-BMG Improved 40.



they look like they would burn a barrel out in two shots rp
 
There is no way they would make it down range, the bullets would dissenegrate. I think?
There is a gun smith from Montana here that made a .22AM which is a .270WSM case necked to the 22 caliber bullet, and everything he shot out of it dissenegrated.
 
You guys are forgetting one thing. Pressure, this would be the undoing on any cartridge. The action that neded to be built for that crazy 17-50bmg cartridge would need to be rather large, trying to force all the fire and brimstone down a 17 cal tube would cteate so much pressure it would be crazy.
 
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You guys are forgetting one thing. Pressure, this would be the undoing on any cartridge. The action that neded to be built for that crazy 17-50bmg cartridge would need to be rather large, trying to force all the fire and brimstone down a 17 cal tube would cteate so much pressure it would be crazy.



I think you're right. You'd have what is called a bomb insead of a superfast bullet.
 
They might get a machined bronze slug to stay together. The other downsides are obvious, barrel life would be zip, probably burn the barrel out by the time you worked a load up and the muzzle blast would be unbelievable, probably set dry brush on fire from prone.

This is an exercise in absurdity, just proving something can be done. Don
 
exactly, and besides that at that kind of velocity, the bullet would never stay intact. even a solid bullet. shear friction from the atmosphere would melt it.
 
Gotta have that 17 BMG. However, I suspect I'll need a fire truck to handle the grass fires in PD country.

Should be easy to load, a pound of H335 per round.

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From what I can tell from my reloading manuals, necking down is moving in the direction of inefficiency (defined by me as moving a given bullet mass more slowly in a smaller caliber than the same mass in a larger caliber, over the same size powder charge). The higher velocity everyone is after only comes from using a much lighter bullet.
 
"A 17-300 Ultra Mag or a 17-BMG Improved 40."

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What you guys don't realize is that these two cases are made up as a joke - neither has even been chambered in a rifle.


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I think you're right. You'd have what is called a bomb insead of a superfast bullet

Yip. Think about the calibers that are available and how easily it is to reach pressures that are dangerous. There would be too much pressure and not enough hole/barrel dia. to releave the pressure quickly enough without blowing something up.
 
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