Anyone have a .50 Beowulf upper on their AR-15 lower? Just curious...I was watching a show the other day (Future Weapons) where the host pulled out a .50 Beowulf to demonstrate how to shoot and stop a pursuing vehicle. It only took a few shots to kill the engine and penetrate the windshield. Extremely powerful round (12.7 x 42 mm; 400gr bullets), and it seemed to be very controllable in an AR platform. The .50 Beowulf can be single stacked in AR 5.56 magazines. I found the complete uppers online for $300-$800, but the ammo is outrageous at $2-$3 per round. Not sure when I would ever need to stop a vehicle or shoot attacking wild hogs or bears, but it looked pretty cool! Thoughts?
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Michaelp57
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It is definitely cool to be able to shoot a 50 cal out of an ar and the recoil is nowhere near what one would expect(think lower end 12ga buckshot). If you end up getting one, the only thing I can recommend is to stay away from the bear creek arsenal version and go straight for the Alexander arms upper. I have the bear creek one, and I have never been able to get it to feed. That's despite trying multiple lowers, different buffer weights, 3 kinds of magazines, and 3 kinds of ammo. Definitely a cool round, but one that requires you to spend the money and do it right if you want it to actually function.
It is definitely cool to be able to shoot a 50 cal out of an ar and the recoil is nowhere near what one would expect(think lower end 12ga buckshot). If you end up getting one, the only thing I can recommend is to stay away from the bear creek arsenal version and go straight for the Alexander arms upper. I have the bear creek one, and I have never been able to get it to feed. That's despite trying multiple lowers, different buffer weights, 3 kinds of magazines, and 3 kinds of ammo. Definitely a cool round, but one that requires you to spend the money and do it right if you want it to actually function.
LVSteve
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...and then there is 458 SOCOM, another thumper round for the AR.
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I dunno, at one point I was looking into getting a .458 SOCOM Upper for my AR, but fortunately I was talked out of it once I was inevitably bombarded with information which continuously drove up the cost of what was meant to be a simple, inexpensive project into the upper stratosphere because apparently only $1000 Tombo-Tango Uppers are actually good, you need an H3 Buffer, a solid shock-obsorbing stock, etc, all on top of the astronomical cost of ammunition.
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