Mission: 50 BMG Ammunition
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mission: 50 BMG Ammunition
Intelligence:
toward the later 1990’s, a new type of sniper rifle came into existence: the .50 BMG. Previously, this big round had only been used in the .50 caliber Browning Machine Gun (hence BMG), which was almost exclusively vehicle mounted. The .50 BMG round was the brainchild by prolific firearms designer John Browning in the late 1910’s. The .50 BMG made its service debut in 1921. If you took a .30-06 cartridge and scaled it up, you would approximate the .50 BMG in size and shape. It is an exceedingly long reaching round. In fact, the .50 BMG is the round responsible for the longest range confirmed kill in history, which happened
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| when Canadian Corporal Rob Furlong used it to hit a Taliban guerrilla at 2,657 yards in Afghanistan in 2002. Bullet weights for the .50BMG range from 650 to 800 grain, and velocities hover around 3,000 ft / second. |
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