50 beowulf
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Ive got one, had it for about a year and a half now. It's a really good gun. I mostly use mine for hog hunting. It's very accurate out to around the 300 yd mark. It's a little expensive if your going to shoot it a alot. It's around $2 a round depending on where and what rounds you get. Cabelas has boxes for around $26. Unless you order from Alexander arms you can order bulk packs or you can try to reload them your self. It is a very loud gun. I took it to an indoor range one day and after about 15 rounds the range master asked me if I could hold off on shooting it until the range some what emptied out. People were Apperently complaining because of how loud it was and the concussion wave was rattling people. Also the concussion wave kept knocking the paper targets out of the hangers 2 isles over.The riffle is def a show stopper. If yours doesn't have it i would put the aftermarket .50 cal buffer they make on it. It helps a little with the recoil. I've read poeples comments about it only kicks like a 12g birdshot round... Apperently they've not this riffle before. Need any more info let me know.
Yes, the upper is designed to for any AR platform. Mine is on a rock river platform. Just pop the pins out and slap it on. You can also use the 223/556 mags as well. I use them and they work just fine. Haven't had any issues and didn't have to mess with any of the mags for them to work.
I don't know the exact physics between the two, but I took my 12g out one day and shot random stuff with both of them. The .50 actually did significantly more damage than the 12g both are devastating rounds but the .50 was designed to punch engine blocks and stop cars for the soldiers in the middle east. If you go on YouTube and type in .50 Beowulf future weapons you'll see a little demonstration of it. I had 2 old golf cart engine blocks both of them identical. I shot one with the 12ga slug and it did a little bit of damage and then the other one with the 435 grain .50 and it split the block in half. Pretty nasty round if you ask me.
Lloyd Smale
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I love mine. its accounted for a number of pigs and one bear in my hands and my wife shot a 1600lb cow water buffalo with it. it hits like the hammer of thor
my buddy got one a couple months ago for $200!
It was fun on the range (although with the rounds costing upwards of $1.75 a pop, we didn't have enough to zero the sights)
It's big it's loud, everyone wants to come over and either shoot it or watch.
The thing kicks like a friggin donkey. I doubt their claims that it can take out a car engine. The round is SUPER powerful, but I dont see the .50AE JHP or the blunt nosed FMJ round puncturing a steel engine block like .50BMG. (if anyone can prove me wrong, please do so and i will cheer because an M4 that can kill cars is awesome)... yes I know the video exists, I'm just hoping someone did trials.
The big problem we found with it was the dud rate of the rounds. In his box of 20, we found 2 duds. Complete deep primer strikes, no bang. Those are some pretty expensive rounds to have a 10% dud rate on. Hopefully this was a fluke, because there is something that satisfies the child inside when you're hurling huge projectiles downrage. That and this would be a very potent hog round, and I wouldn't want to have one of these rounds fail with a ****** off hog in front of me.
It was fun on the range (although with the rounds costing upwards of $1.75 a pop, we didn't have enough to zero the sights)
It's big it's loud, everyone wants to come over and either shoot it or watch.
The thing kicks like a friggin donkey. I doubt their claims that it can take out a car engine. The round is SUPER powerful, but I dont see the .50AE JHP or the blunt nosed FMJ round puncturing a steel engine block like .50BMG. (if anyone can prove me wrong, please do so and i will cheer because an M4 that can kill cars is awesome)... yes I know the video exists, I'm just hoping someone did trials.
The big problem we found with it was the dud rate of the rounds. In his box of 20, we found 2 duds. Complete deep primer strikes, no bang. Those are some pretty expensive rounds to have a 10% dud rate on. Hopefully this was a fluke, because there is something that satisfies the child inside when you're hurling huge projectiles downrage. That and this would be a very potent hog round, and I wouldn't want to have one of these rounds fail with a ****** off hog in front of me.
I would imagine the 12ga slug would do more damage. This isn't .50BMG we're talking about here.
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BPowderkeg
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i do not have a .50 Beo yet, i plan getting one soon, so that i do not have to trash my .499LWR brass, which gets neck splits after about 15 reloads, i have already trimmed about 100 .499LWR brass to .50 Beo. specs, 1.665".
the AA tank break is the one i will be getting, it just looks "nasty", as for loudness, no one wants to take a bench within 3 or 4 lanes when i shoot my .499LWR, i too have been asked to hold off shooting it till few shooters are present,
so i get to the range early before opening so that i can practice with it when the range opens when there are only 2 or 3 shooters present. i usually fire 50 rounds then switch to my "Mouse Gun". 
the AA tank break is the one i will be getting, it just looks "nasty", as for loudness, no one wants to take a bench within 3 or 4 lanes when i shoot my .499LWR, i too have been asked to hold off shooting it till few shooters are present,
so i get to the range early before opening so that i can practice with it when the range opens when there are only 2 or 3 shooters present. i usually fire 50 rounds then switch to my "Mouse Gun". Insomni,
I'll see if I can find another engine block at my buddy's scrap yard and make a video of it. I got to unload 7 rounds into a Honda civic motor with my Beowulf and it completely destroyed the block. Had about a quarter inch crack that was about 4 inches long above the oil pan when I was finished. I was standing about 20 yards away and put all 7 rounds with in 2 inches of each other and it ate that block up. As far as a single shot to an "American made car block like a 350 small block" I'm still waiting to try. But when I do I will post the vid of its damage whether of not it punches it or not.
I'll see if I can find another engine block at my buddy's scrap yard and make a video of it. I got to unload 7 rounds into a Honda civic motor with my Beowulf and it completely destroyed the block. Had about a quarter inch crack that was about 4 inches long above the oil pan when I was finished. I was standing about 20 yards away and put all 7 rounds with in 2 inches of each other and it ate that block up. As far as a single shot to an "American made car block like a 350 small block" I'm still waiting to try. But when I do I will post the vid of its damage whether of not it punches it or not.
Lloyd Smale
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Funny, i have brass thats been fired over 15 times. Some of my old alexander arms brass gave up the ghost at around 10 shootings but thats still better then most rifle brass. I dont load right up to the limit though. I learned long ago with big bore pistols that an extra hundred or two feet per second doesnt amount to much on game.