Yup, you need one

| February 3, 2012

It’s a .950 cal. rifle with a 2800 grain bullet (a grain is 1/1000th of an ounce) that travels at 2100 ft/sec.

I guess if you have stegosauruses tearing up your garden and molesting your dog, you’ll need one. Found at Ace of Spades.

Category: Guns

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Old Trooper

Order one up for the HHC!!

NHSparky

“It’s an .88 magnum. It shoots through schools.”

PintoNag

Yeeeesh!! That thing would put a hole in something you could sling a cat through!

John Curmudgeon

If a unit was to order that you know the E-9 would be toting that shit all over the motor pool.

NHSparky

Not at 110 pounds per, he wouldn’t.

Poohbah, Lord High Everything Else

OK, it’s $40 a bullet…that’s too pricey, unless it’s a nuclear round or something like that.

Steadfast&Loyal

It’s things like this that make people think we don’t need Abrams tanks any more.

John Curmudgeon

#5 True, he’d make a E-2 carry it for him. Crazy about the $40 per round though. I want to see that thing hit a carcass.

BohicaTwentyTwo

#2 – what an obscure Johnny Dangerously reference.

Flagwaver

When you absolutely, positively, have to take down a T-Rex with one shot.

Adam_S

When you go that big, you gotta be compensating for something no?

Alberich

#10, but the recoil would make you fall back and step on a butterfly. Not worth it.

Redacted1775

Meh, wake me when someone makes a pistol version. THAT would be entertaining.

Virtual Insanity
TopGoz

I’m no gunsmith, nor have I ever played one on TV, but by my crude calculations that round would be a bigger caliber than a 20mm cannon. I believe an appropriate name for this rifle would be “Main Tank Gun.”

Redacted1775

#14 Similar, but with blood and broken bones.

OldSoldier54

My shoulder aches just from watching.

#6 Poohbah: Oh, yeah. At $40 a pop, it needs to be a smart munitions, fire and forget, micro anti-matter, anti-everything-including-UFOs, with a sub-Megaton nominal yield. Hmmm. Wonder how this would work with squirrels?

#13 Redacted1775: I’d be more interested in the exoskeleton required to actually fire a pistol version …

Anonymous

Small correction – a grain is about 1/434 of an ounce, or 1/7000 of a pound. So this mother is almost a 25mm bullet (that’s about 25% thicker than a 12 gauge slug)- I am guessing at that speed you are talking somewhere around 50,000 foot pounds of muzzle energy. Like four .50 bullets hitting in the same spot – yeah, it’s gonna hurt. Not for long, though.

DaveO

Squirrels will fear my .950 wrath!

Poohbah, Lord High Everything Else

#12…nice Ray Bradbury reference!

Doc Bailey

this is my BOOOM STICK!!!!

Ol Tanker

Just a correction. A grain is 1/7000 of a pound not an ounce. There are 7000 grains in a pound.

teddy996

@15- I saw something on this awhile back, while it was under construction. The guy took 25mm cannon brass, and cut it down in length to make the shell, if I recall. Probably has a bit to do with how expensive the cartridges are.

jonp

@Doc Bailey: Nice Evil Dead reference