Talk me out of this.

[Bobster]

I've seen armor piercing rounds in 50 BMG but not 50 AE. Unnecessary for my purposes but it's out there.

What if you chucked up a 50AE bullet in a lathe and drilled a 1/8" hole in the center. Then took a small segment of 1/8" W TIG electrode and pressed it into the drilled hole? For research purposes, of course...

 

[Bongo Lewi]

What if you chucked up a 50AE bullet in a lathe and drilled a 1/8" hole in the center. Then took a small segment of 1/8" W TIG electrode and pressed it into the drilled hole? For research purposes, of course...

It would probably wobble on its way to where ever it was going. There's a vast difference between the two. The AE is a badass pistol round. I don't think it stands up well as an equipment destroyer though.

	50 AE	50 BMG
Bullet Weight (grains)	300-325	647-800
Velocity (fps)	1,400-1,500	2,800-3,100
Energy (ft.-lbs)	1,400-1,600	10,000-15,000

 

[Racer88]

Yeah... just because the "caliber" (diameter) is the same... Ummmm....

 

[Alex]

I came to the same conclusion with the mighty 10mm...

If my Garmin Xero is reading slugs accurately it would seem a Deagle > 12 gauge slugs!

 

[bkbrno]

I ran numbers when this thread started using this calculator Bullet Energy Calculator

I think I used 2200fps with a standard 660gr bullet and it came out to 7000 ft/lbs of energy. That is 460 Weatherby Mag territory for energy. I can't find any definitive bullet speed readings for a short barrel 50BMG. All one can do is guesstimate based on 25-50fps per inch. I did find one attempt to record the velocity of a 20" barrel but the chronograph got shredded and recorded an ERR on what was left of it.

Don't bullets spin at something like 100,000 rpm or 1667 revs/second? Kinda difficult to balance that out on a long range projectile. Can you get an insert concentric enough to still be accurate? Never tried anything like this.