Just purchased one. What is some good preloaded ammo to purchase for it? I'm looking for accuracy, but hopefully not too expensive. Also, what are good hunting bullets for it? Thanks
Armalite 50 BMG AR-50A1 ammo advice?
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Hi,
Accuracy + BMG + loaded ammunition = NOT going to find it to be inexpensive.
Randy at Thunder Ammo would be my first suggestion for loaded accuracy.
What are you hunting?
Sincerely,
Theis
Accuracy + BMG + loaded ammunition = NOT going to find it to be inexpensive.
Randy at Thunder Ammo would be my first suggestion for loaded accuracy.
What are you hunting?
Sincerely,
Theis
I sure hope you taking heads off, otherwise there is nothing to eat after 750gr pill hitting a deer in a vitals
When I had mine the hornady 750gr was pretty accurate for what it was. I'd hold .8 moa ish. I shot some HSM and it was similar but made it harder to clean than the hornady. I still think I have a 10rd box of the Hornady on my ammo shelf somewhere
As point of note, all of what might reasonably be considered their "hunting" ammo is loaded with the A-Max.
Bullet selection...OP, are you planning on reloading? And are you serious about using 50 BMG anything on a 300 pound deer? 700 pound mature bull elk, minimum, please.
Just ordered some from Randy. 647's, just to see how it will shoot before loading some bergers in it.
1. The 647 is FMJ, full metal jacket - ZERO expansion. NOT a hunting bullet.
2. The largest caliber Berger makes is .375
So you plan on reloading?
Hopefully at shot show berger releases some. Yes eventually start reloading, other then the 750 Hornady, i'm not sure of any other hunting bullets for it.
you do not. I seen a white tail deer being hit from about 475yrds with 750gr Hornady and there was literally no usable meat besides hind quarters - wasted tenderloin and a backstrap - it was basically a mush inside from the shockwave...
deer will DRT even if grazed, in my opinion, with a 50 - I am a meat hunter, so wasting 2/3 or better of an animal seems not very sportsmanlike to me, but if a person is a bad shot - I guess they need to step up a caliber to harvest that game.
I do not exactly agree with some above. I am considered and consider myself a good shot and a hunter. I have routinely hunted (still am) deer and placed shots out to 500m with my 6.5x55 rifles. I practiced and did extensive load development (PER RIFLE) for about 4yrs prior to start taking shots at deer beyond 200m. I also deal with private hunting land and private shooting range where I am the only, more less, one who is hunting/using it - so I can have plenty of time to set up my ground blinds and my beer can targets to see what my capabilities are. I also pour ballistic blocks with bones and hide over it to see what expansion/bullet retention/penetration my rounds will do at various distances... I typically place a shot where I sever a spinal column in the area close to the neck and that either DRT or paralyzes deer (with no pain felt). I hunt with 140gr Lapua Naturalis now exclusively and prior to that I hunted with 123-160gr pills.
if one knows what he/she is doing, I do not think its unethical or unsportsmanlike to take long shots, however!!! that takes literally years and thousands of rounds of practice. I was shooting 800m 8" plates with 100% success via bench shooting. Shooting paper and shooting an animal (with anticipation of movement, angles, backstop, etc) are two entirely different disciplines - so one should practice for a specific type of a shooting (or all). To me, wasting an animal by doing extensive meat damage, marginal shots (wounded and dying for days in the woods somewhere being chased by coyotes, wolves, bear, etc.) is the same as an animal abuse...
I see some 'hunters' here in WI talking about these long shot and long terrain and 300WM and 338LM rifles - motherfuckers can't make it to the bathroom and back to the bar without being winded and having shortness of breath... Chances this guy will go up even 100m up the rocky hill (not even talking 1/3 or half a mile, so 500-800m) to retrieve a mountain goat are literally slim to NONE - they will have to have a Flight For Life EMS helicopter on standby for those 'story tellers'....
if one knows what he/she is doing, I do not think its unethical or unsportsmanlike to take long shots, however!!! that takes literally years and thousands of rounds of practice. I was shooting 800m 8" plates with 100% success via bench shooting. Shooting paper and shooting an animal (with anticipation of movement, angles, backstop, etc) are two entirely different disciplines - so one should practice for a specific type of a shooting (or all). To me, wasting an animal by doing extensive meat damage, marginal shots (wounded and dying for days in the woods somewhere being chased by coyotes, wolves, bear, etc.) is the same as an animal abuse...
I see some 'hunters' here in WI talking about these long shot and long terrain and 300WM and 338LM rifles - motherfuckers can't make it to the bathroom and back to the bar without being winded and having shortness of breath... Chances this guy will go up even 100m up the rocky hill (not even talking 1/3 or half a mile, so 500-800m) to retrieve a mountain goat are literally slim to NONE - they will have to have a Flight For Life EMS helicopter on standby for those 'story tellers'....
Just sell it and buy something else. 50 BMG rifles are like buying a boat you'll Bust Out Another Thousand in just ammo.
