Re: Advantages of .338 lapua over the .50 BMG?
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: wbeard</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Drake Associates</div><div class="ubbcode-body">The.338LM is the way to go. A good choice would be a rifle that performs SUB MOA at distance, is accepted by NATO Special Ops teams and is less than half the weight of the .50 system.
Check out the PGM .338LM PSR Rifle
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LOL ol ol ol ol...... Apparrently if you make a video and you play rock music and show a bunch of spoiled SWAT looking like rich kids on the ski slope with the latest cool gear and no idea how to use it...then it means that the featured rifle is REALLLY bad a** toooo funny... Feel like I just saw Sons of Guns meets a modern warefare 3 convention.
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OLOLOLOL.... Apparently you missed the part about the .338 system weighing half what the .50 does. The whole system is portable by one man. Not two, or extended ops three. Also, there are .338 AP bullets that will take out an engine block, if not a bulldozer through the blade, out to 1500m.
I'll put it to you this way, I've shot plenty of .338's now and enough .50's to know what is harder to pack and what will provide enough punch.
Why don't we just "pack" 57mm anti-armor guns with us? I'm impressed with the .50, but not sold on it for a few reasons. Round count (what you/a team can pack on a long range mission). How much is too much? If the .338 does the job, why pack a .50?
Then there's that little thing called the longest shot. The .338 owns that one, not the fifty. Also, regarding that, there is a video on Chris's website showing the .338 being tested. Note how much recoil there is. Not much...and I'm damned impressed with how little I saw. I've shot some very well braked .50's and I have to say that not one of them is forgiving even with a great break in the recoil department.