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Posted: 9/2/2009 11:12:17 AM EDT
Customer was interested in buying a .50 BMG upper for his AR-15, so I brought my rifle in to the shop to show him what one looked like etc. However I got bored and decided to make my own "in store" display.
Last year I took a chunk of scrap brass and turned it on my lathe and made my own wildcat...sort of.. I turned a cartridge about 1.00 in diameter and necked down to accept a 5.7mm bullet from a 5.7 FHN round. I called my new creation the 5.7 Xpress and put it on a shelf at the gun shop and forgot about it...until today. I made my store display with the 50 rifle and the "5.7 cartridge" and put up a sign announcing the new 5.7 Xpress Rifle and Cartridge. It has made several customers stop and stare, along with an occasional DAAAAaaaaaayummmm or What the....? 
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Posted: 9/2/2009 11:13:00 AM EDT
[#1]
That's awesome!
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Posted: 9/2/2009 11:14:56 AM EDT
[#2]
LMFAO!
Now you need to make a working one! |
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Posted: 9/2/2009 11:15:26 AM EDT
[#3]
Beautifully done
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Posted: 9/2/2009 11:15:35 AM EDT
[#4]
Of fuck, now I want one!
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Posted: 9/2/2009 11:15:58 AM EDT
[#5]
That's classy.
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Posted: 9/2/2009 11:16:42 AM EDT
[#6]
That is perfect "gun shop navy seal" bait.
I am sure eventually, someone will tell you that they have heard of that before. 
Pretty neat though. |
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Posted: 9/2/2009 11:18:07 AM EDT
[#7]
Your rifling would last about 5 shots, just in time for you to get it sighted in
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Posted: 9/2/2009 11:18:56 AM EDT
[#8]
Quoted:
That is perfect "gun shop navy seal" bait. I am sure eventually, someone will tell you that they have heard of that before.
Pretty neat though. Pfffttt shows what little you know about Spec-Ops. These are standard issue for space shuttle door gunners...
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Posted: 9/2/2009 11:19:11 AM EDT
[#9]
Nice!
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Posted: 9/2/2009 11:19:24 AM EDT
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Posted: 9/2/2009 11:20:07 AM EDT
[#11]
This made more questions than jokes... what if it worked well!?
Also, it needs a few more necks .............../ ..............|..| ..............|..| .........../........ ....../.................. ......|..................| ......|..................| ......|..................| ......|..................| ......<.................> |
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Posted: 9/2/2009 11:20:11 AM EDT
[#12]
That sir is amazing.
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Posted: 9/2/2009 11:20:32 AM EDT
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Posted: 9/2/2009 11:20:53 AM EDT
[#14]
Isn't that the round shuttle door gunners use?!?
ETA-Beaten to the door gunner joke.  |
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Posted: 9/2/2009 11:21:29 AM EDT
[#15]
Lulz..
Only 7500 FPS??? I have a big ranch- does that come in a +P loading or magnum load??? |
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Posted: 9/2/2009 11:22:33 AM EDT
[#16]
I bet that would fire on the primer alone and actually be functional, without having to worry about pressure spikes and such.
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Posted: 9/2/2009 11:22:48 AM EDT
[#17]
This wins thread of the week!
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Posted: 9/2/2009 11:23:02 AM EDT
[#18]
Thats some pretty funny shit..
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Posted: 9/2/2009 11:23:08 AM EDT
[#19]
Now you need a .17 version.
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Posted: 9/2/2009 11:23:09 AM EDT
[#20]
Quoted: in before the guy who tells you he carried that in Iraq.....Isn't that the round shuttle door gunners use?!? ETA-Beaten to the door gunner joke. |
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Posted: 9/2/2009 11:23:10 AM EDT
[#21]
Back in '91we used that same round to make headshots on Iraqi Republican Guards from 5 miles away. You know us Special Forces dudes had the black ops ammo back then that's just becoming available to the general public right now...
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Posted: 9/2/2009 11:24:31 AM EDT
[#22]
I once set a 50BMG bullet in a 50AE case. Not quite as extreme, but its always fun to screw with people.
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Posted: 9/2/2009 11:25:19 AM EDT
[#23]
Wonder what the muzzle velocity would be and how far that little thing would fly with that much motivation behind it.
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Posted: 9/2/2009 11:26:39 AM EDT
[#24]
We use to shoot those in The Nam all the time.
Had a toy company make them for us |
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Posted: 9/2/2009 11:29:30 AM EDT
[#25]
Thats great...! |
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Posted: 9/2/2009 11:32:03 AM EDT
[#26]
That is awesome!
And I just learned a new favorite phrase: space shuttle door gunner. LOL |
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Posted: 9/2/2009 11:32:16 AM EDT
[#27]
That's awesome
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Posted: 9/2/2009 11:35:14 AM EDT
[#28]
whos the maker of that 50 conversion?
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Posted: 9/2/2009 11:36:04 AM EDT
[#29]
Come on, EVERYONE knows that REAL operators use the 6.8 Xpress.
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Posted: 9/2/2009 11:36:26 AM EDT
[#30]
Does it come in a belted version?
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Posted: 9/2/2009 11:37:45 AM EDT
[#31]
"best of all, it tumbles through the air causing awesome loop-de-loop wounds in the body. better to wound one so two of his buddies have to cart him off to an aid station than to kill him outright, right? ..."
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Posted: 9/2/2009 11:38:14 AM EDT
[#32]
Someone, buy this man a beer.
Get me one too. |
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Posted: 9/2/2009 11:38:16 AM EDT
[#33]
Are you somehow the product of a long ago and long forgotten Piccolo one night stand?
You "work" is devilishly good. |
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Posted: 9/2/2009 11:38:54 AM EDT
[#34]
I'm gonna go with I WANT ONE NOA!
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Posted: 9/2/2009 11:39:03 AM EDT
[#35]
That's pretty damn funny. Good job.
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Posted: 9/2/2009 11:41:30 AM EDT
[#36]
Quoted:
Wonder what the muzzle velocity would be and how far that little thing would fly with that much motivation behind it. This. Actually I'd bet it would reach a sub-orbital trajectory.... |
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Posted: 9/2/2009 11:45:27 AM EDT
[#37]
All I can say is GROUP BUY!
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Posted: 9/2/2009 11:45:37 AM EDT
[#38]
I like it.
If I am not mistaken...didn't JD Jones neck down a .50 BMG case to a .22 back in the 70's? I think it was called the "Earscplittenloudenboomer", although I may be mistaken. IF I recall correctly, they had trouble getting over 5200 fps with it, which has been done with the .22-.243 Middlestead. ETA: It was P.O. Ackley that made the .22 Eargesplitten Loudenboomer, and it was a .378 Weatherby Mag case necked down to .22. |
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Posted: 9/2/2009 11:47:10 AM EDT
[#39]
Cool.
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Posted: 9/2/2009 11:50:04 AM EDT
[#40]
I tell you what...
If a .50 BMG can shoot down Planes, you can probably use that to snipe at combatants on the Moon....... |
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Posted: 9/2/2009 11:50:24 AM EDT
[#41]
ill give you a dollar to fill that case with powder and prime it up and shoot that round out the barrel. you must videotape and have someone post the results here.
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Posted: 9/2/2009 11:51:39 AM EDT
[#42]
You have one to? I thought I had the only one in existence. I killed an Elephant with one in africa years ago.
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Posted: 9/2/2009 11:52:06 AM EDT
[#43]
Quoted:
whos the maker of that 50 conversion? It is a Ferett 50 upper with a 36" barrel |
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Posted: 9/2/2009 11:53:35 AM EDT
[#44]
"Authorities have noticed an increase in high-caliber weapons in Los Angeles. One of the most startling incidents was when a Fabrique National 57, an assault pistol used to kill big game, was found in a victim's car by detectives investigating a double-homicide last year in North Hollywood.
"You use it on large lions, tigers and bears," said LAPD Deputy Chief Michel Moore, commander of the Valley Bureau." The NEW 5.7 Xpress. LAPD certified for xtreme lions, xtreme tigers, and xtreme bears. |
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Posted: 9/2/2009 12:00:37 PM EDT
[#45]
Where do I send the down payment?
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Posted: 9/2/2009 12:01:45 PM EDT
[#46]
Quoted:
You have one to? I thought I had the only one in existence. I killed an Elephant with one in africa years ago. Killed it from here, right? |
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Posted: 9/2/2009 12:04:23 PM EDT
[#47]
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You have one to? I thought I had the only one in existence. I killed an Elephant with one in africa years ago. From the comfort of your couch in Wisconsin, right? ETA: Dagnabit, beatin by minutes.
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Posted: 9/2/2009 12:08:01 PM EDT
[#48]
I would love to be there when the first idiot starts in on how he's had one for years.
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Posted: 9/2/2009 12:15:49 PM EDT
[#49]
Nobody is going to believe that huge case fires a 5.7mm bullet. You need to put it in a .30 cal sabot.... :)
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Posted: 9/2/2009 12:19:11 PM EDT
[#50]
brilliant
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