.905 Calibre rifle created

[jollyjacktar]

Photos and video at story link below. 

Gun company displays largest-caliber rifle ever created with bullets that cost $40 a pieceThe .905-caliber rifle fires rounds about 2,100 feet per second
The gun also has 2,777 foot-pounds of recoil energy, which essentially makes it as powerful - and gives it about as much 'kick' - as firing 10 .30-6 rifles at the same time.
The company has only produced three of the uber-powerful rifles
By Daily Mail Reporter

If you want to squeeze off a few rounds from a .905-caliber rifle, you'll need two things: muscles and cash.  An Ohio-based gun company has developed the world's first .905-caliber rifle that - at .905 - is the highest-caliber rifle in the world. And with bullets that cost more than $40 a piece, you'll probably think twice before pulling the trigger.

'It's a little scary,' one user said of the gun in a Youtube video that demonstrates just how powerful the weapon can be.
The rifle is the creation of SSK Industries and is essentially a shoulder-mounted cannon, with rounds that look like mini mortar shells.


The rifle fires rounds about 2,100 feet per second with roughly 254,000 foot-pounds of muzzle energy. The gun also has 2,777 foot-pounds of recoil energy, which essentially makes it as powerful - and has about as much 'kick' - as firing 10 .30-6 rifles at the same time.

Bullet grain - the measurement used to essentially weigh ammunition - for a typical sniper rifle is usually about 200. For the .905-caliber rifle, it can be up to 2,500.

The gun featured in several Youtube videos is one of only three that the gun manufacturer has produced - and is the smallest of the three.  The prototype used in the videos weighs only 50 pounds. The other two weigh about 110 pounds each.  So, if you want to fire a .905-caliber rifle, you might have to drain your bank account - and go to the gym.

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[Humphrey Bogart]

Photos and video at story link below. 

LMAO this looks like something out of Duke Nukem!  Mind you it is totally impractical for anything other then maybe trying to stop an armoured vehicle  ;D even then you would probably need to mount it on some sort of tripod to actually control it properly.

 

[GAP]

And you defintely need an shock absorbing butt plate....Those guys are gonna be black and blue tomorrow.....

 

[Canadian.Trucker]

As one of my WO's said, "You own this rifle simply to say that you can kill anything that walks the face of the earth... and maybe even some things that swim it."

 

[George Wallace]

LMAO this looks like something out of Duke Nukem!  Mind you it is totally impractical for anything other then maybe trying to stop an armoured vehicle  ;D even then you would probably need to mount it on some sort of tripod to actually control it properly.

Now that deadly Finnish anti-tank rifle comes to mind.

 

[Canadian.Trucker]

Now that deadly Finnish anti-tank rifle comes to mind.

You mean this bad boy?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solothurn_S-18/100

Originally designed by the Germans/Swiss.

 

[Michael OLeary]

with rounds that look like mini mortar shells.

Not to anyone who has ever handled a mortar bomb.

 

[George Wallace]

You mean this bad boy?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solothurn_S-18/100

Originally designed by the Germans/Swiss.

Actually no.  I was thinking of the Clint Eastwood movie, "Thunderbolt and Lightfoot", where they used a Oerlikon Cannon to represent the Finnish Lahti 20mm Anti-tank Gun, The ‘Finnish Boombeast’.

 

[Gorgo]

Man!  That is one MEAN SOB!

I wonder what the tactical range of something like that would be.

 

[George Wallace]

.905 in (22.987mm)

.950 in (24.130mm)

Just in case anyone was wondering on what the metric conversion was.

 

[George Wallace]

Even larger rifle is .950 calibre JDJ from McBros.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rKHXTsDcco

 

[GAP]

Quote
    with rounds that look like mini mortar shells.

Not to anyone who has ever handled a mortar bomb.

More like a mini M79 round

 

[Canadian.Trucker]

Actually no.  I was thinking of the Clint Eastwood movie, "Thunderbolt and Lightfoot", where they used a Oerlikon Cannon to represent the Finnish Lahti 20mm Anti-tank Gun, The ‘Finnish Boombeast’.

Damn!  Me rikey!

 

[Old EO Tech]

The Croats had their 20mm anti-tank rifle designed to take out the main sights on tanks, making them far less effective.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RT-20_%28rifle%29

Jon