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Posted: 2/9/2003 6:03:13 PM EDT
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Please excuse the spelling. I hope I posted on the right board. Anyone have any experience with this upper? I've seen it on Impact Guns www.impactguns.com/store/alex_arms_16_upper.html, and was wondering if it is worth the money. (~$650) Seems like it would make the AR more versatile. I've got the Ciener kit for .22lr, and it would be awesome to be able to add a 3rd caliber to my AR. Imagine going from .22lr, to 5.56, to .50 all in only a matter of seconds. Thanks for your comments. |
| The .50 Beowulf entry kit upper is made by Alexander Arms. It is also being sold by Cabela's for $ 629.99. Available loads to feed it are 325-grain, 334-grain and 400-grain JHP, JSP & FMJs moving between 1850 to 1900 fps out of the muzzle. The terminal ballistics are impressive on paper and I was entertaining the idea of purchasing the upper myself. However, unless you are a reloader, the fact that the cartridge is loaded by only one small company convinced me to wait and see. If Alexander Arms goes belly up in a couple of years, you'll be stuck with an AR upper chambered for an obsolete caliber. |
| I had a .50 Beowulf, I bought the complete weapon. It is a very accurate round. The kick is very light.But the factory rounds are very expensive. I sold mine because I got a Ferret50 BMG upper. I also had concerns with if Alexander Arms went under the round would be obsolete. I will stick with my Bushmaster in .223, I know that round will never be obsolete. And neither will the .50BMG. |
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awesome weapon. buy the brass, or rounds and reload them yourself. if you are so worried that it willl become obsolete, buy lots of brass and keep it around. the brass dosent seem to stretch after many firings, actually, it shrinks again when you fire it. try measuring one after you size it and after you shoot it. you can get many reloads out of a cartridge. also, very accurate. fun gun to shoot. |
| FWIW, Leitner-Wise Rifle Company also makes a rifle in the same caliber (they call it the LW15.499, or "mini-50"). It can use the Alexander Arms ammo, and they make their own. The LW15.499 has been adopted by the Coast Guard, and the Marines may be picking it up, so it's doubtful that the caliber will become obsolete anytime soon. |
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