Re: I want to build a 1500 yd AR. What round????
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: ThinIce</div><div class="ubbcode-body">I don't want a 338. I wish their was a 7mm that would feed in an AR but the 7 wsm shoulder is too steep. Any suggestions.
I don't want some wildcat cartridge I can't buy are something that is $50 for 20 rounds. There isn't much available in 7mm and it really is a great round. ....between 6.5 and 300..is a sweet spot in my opinion. Bucks the wind and still has knockdown power.
So I am pondering all this.....may just build a creedmore.
Jim</div></div> <div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: ThinIce</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: KevinB-KAC</div><div class="ubbcode-body"> Todd Hodnett is running his .308 16" OBR to 1500yrds on E type steel...
What are you looking to do at that range?
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Kevin, ....It's just a game or challenge for me. I design mechanical devices...I see things I know I can improve on ....and as you say it has already been done in various ways. I am trying to develop a gun for the masses (affordable ammo) that will reach 1500 and still be supersonic.
I started out 20 yrs ago owning a mellurgical testing company and then got interested in guns and developed a very unique machine gun that beat the hell out of anything available at the time but it failed to sell to the military as many great guns do and was shelved although I have some great video of myself rappelling from a helicopter and firing one handed
).....this thing had almost zero muzzle rise. One of my engineers was truly a genius.
At the moment I am using engineers in Izhevsk, Russia where the kalishnikov was produced. We are working on feeding mechanisms and barrel designs and metal formulas. I hold several patents and have used Chinese engineers but had problems with immediate theft of ideas and counterfeiting of parts with inferior materials. So I use Russian and German consultants to protect my designs.
So in a nutshell I am doing it for fun because I can. I do real estate development for a living but the company runs itself so I get to tinker with things and pursue ideas and hobbies.
I'm getting an upper from Carl Emmite @ ASI in 7wsm to take apart and see how he's doing his "magic".
I don't like to get into specifics on public forums for obvious reasons but I toss this idea out on forums occasionally to see how much ignorance is still out there......and how many are actually up to speed with the real possibilities.
But.....I seldom check in here anymore....some parts of Shanksters video on youtube "snipershide downfall"(or some name like that ) ring far too true. LOL
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J</div></div> Pretty Funny,The OP and then The "Uber Custom Prototype" Shoe Drops.kind of a conflict between the first post and the last.Just a little bit ? Or is this just some "Social Experiment" about the Unwashed Masses ?
If you understand reading comprehension half as much as you claim to understand engineering,the mixed signals between the first and last post would be obvious.Especially the "....may just build a Creedmore".Which does not even come close to the criteria of your last post.
According to your last post,you have resources and capabilities the likes of most professional manufacturers on this site will never see.You even built a prototype machine gun and have the video of yourself rappelling out of a chopper firing it one handed.Move over James Bond ! Why are you here slumming with us mere mortals ? You must have been just playing a rank amateur in your previous posts on this site,asking the same stupid questions like I did when I first got here.