3600 grain bullet?

[James T]

A friend of mine forwarded this to me recently. The video is of a .950 JDJ rifle that fires a cartridge that costs about $40. The rifle weighs up to 110 lbs, has an 18 lb muzzle brake and produces a muzzle energy of 38,000 ft lbs! The bullets weigh about 3600 grains and velocities run about 2200 ft per sec. For anyone interested, this rifle has a "Sporting Use Exception". Yours for about $8k. I can't imagine what you could hunt with it, much less carry the thing around but, it's fun to watch them shoot it!

http://youtu.be/xohy9gWz7kk

 

[Anonymous]

Thats nutz.

 

[dun]

Their hype sounds good but the 2 bore was around in the late 1800s.

 

[JSCATTLE]

Sounds like a small cannon rather than a rifle .

 

[3waycross]

Their hype sounds good but the 2 bore was around in the late 1800s.

Was it a Rifle or a Shotgun?

 

[dun]

Their hype sounds good but the 2 bore was around in the late 1800s.

Was it a Rifle or a Shotgun?

A rifle. It fired exploding bullets nand was used on elephants. Some of the 4 bores were also rifles, a few with fixed ammunition. Mosrt of the 2 and 4 bores were punt guns and not shoulder fired.

 

[Calman]

I will say that's one heii of a hunk of lead flying down range. :nod:

Cal

 

[gimpyrancher]

Do they have a varmint model? :cboy: