Goodburbon
07-06-2012, 19:52
(to avoid hijacking a happy picture thread)
Fired the .50 for the first time the other day and it wasn't pleasant. I'm not saying it wasn't fun, it was.
You loved it anyway.
I invited a couple dudes with a 82A1 to my gun club back when they allowed such "dangerous" rifles and the sound was so awesome everyone at the club stopped what they were doing and came over to watch. What kind of 50 do you have? I thought the 82A1 was a pleasure to shoot...I want one.
Oh, I did. It was still fun. That whole " with the brake it'll kick like a 12 gauge" line is bunk. I've pulled both barrels on a sxs 12ga with heavy loads and that was easy. This thing was a bit like being sucker punched without the pain, but all of the dazing effect. I was just trying to get it on paper at 25. I set up a shrapnel catch to be able to fire it in my back yard, and to stay out of the dirt I fired it in prone from the back of my truck. I fired a shot, dialed in to toward a zero and fired again. When my adjustments didn't produce the results I expected I inspected the scope to find that I hadn't torqued the rings enough and the scope had moved forward a quarter inch. I stopped shooting, disassembled, reassembled, realigned and torqued/loctite-ed the rings. I won't get to fire it again for a few weeks to get a good zero.
It's the Safety Harbor magazine fed AR upper conversion. Functions well, feeds smoothly so far. It just packs a wallop.
What brake is everyone else using on their .50's? While it didn't really hurt, the wife made sure to point out the recoil pad shaped bruise complete with striped pattern on my shoulder later that evening. I might have to get Bert to change the brake on this thing for me.
Fired the .50 for the first time the other day and it wasn't pleasant. I'm not saying it wasn't fun, it was.
You loved it anyway.
I invited a couple dudes with a 82A1 to my gun club back when they allowed such "dangerous" rifles and the sound was so awesome everyone at the club stopped what they were doing and came over to watch. What kind of 50 do you have? I thought the 82A1 was a pleasure to shoot...I want one.
Oh, I did. It was still fun. That whole " with the brake it'll kick like a 12 gauge" line is bunk. I've pulled both barrels on a sxs 12ga with heavy loads and that was easy. This thing was a bit like being sucker punched without the pain, but all of the dazing effect. I was just trying to get it on paper at 25. I set up a shrapnel catch to be able to fire it in my back yard, and to stay out of the dirt I fired it in prone from the back of my truck. I fired a shot, dialed in to toward a zero and fired again. When my adjustments didn't produce the results I expected I inspected the scope to find that I hadn't torqued the rings enough and the scope had moved forward a quarter inch. I stopped shooting, disassembled, reassembled, realigned and torqued/loctite-ed the rings. I won't get to fire it again for a few weeks to get a good zero.
It's the Safety Harbor magazine fed AR upper conversion. Functions well, feeds smoothly so far. It just packs a wallop.
What brake is everyone else using on their .50's? While it didn't really hurt, the wife made sure to point out the recoil pad shaped bruise complete with striped pattern on my shoulder later that evening. I might have to get Bert to change the brake on this thing for me.