SBR Fun: .50 Beowulf

[ROLEXrifleman]

It was in the plans for a while and I pulled the trigger, cheesy pun, on it early last year. Here's the trip in pictures:

what we started with, a vltor vis-1
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Standard 5.56 opening. notice the "lip" on the bottom.
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Just for reference, this is how a standard ejection port would handle a .50


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Measure 5, 6, .... cut once


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Clean up time. the shell deflector ended up coming off later for a deep clean


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[ROLEXrifleman]

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custom ejection port door


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Some of you may not be old enough to know what going to 11 means


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[ROLEXrifleman]

Right before the round goes off, all is good.

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And this is why we .50

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[2ndamendfan]

love the "volume 11" here is mine. it took some work to get it running.

 

[MidCitiesMildMan]

Nice. I feel like that might be closer to volume = 13.

 

[BurnOut]

I really dig that dust cover... very cool.

She looks like the 2nd cousin to a flame thrower!!

 

[2ndamendfan]

Nice. I feel like that might be closer to volume = 13.

Yea, not sure about the OP's gun (probably louder) but after touching mine off at a local indoor range I had to have a 20 min talk with three range masters about the difference between 50 BMG and 50 Beowulf. I warned everyone but three women still jumped out of their skin. I take it just for the attention sometimes.

 

[MidCitiesMildMan]

I got rid of it in the panic but had a MiniDraco SBR, which is a 7.5" x39 AK. And it had a brake. It would clear the firing line at an outdoor range. Can't imagine indoors, or that the .50 sounds like. It might be a "pistol round", but that is an amazing fireball. I don't think the MiniDraco fireballed that well.

 

[A5scott]

Haha sweet, I love the SBR's... is there a suppressor that can handle a 50Beowulf SBR host?

Scott

 

[2ndamendfan]

yep, here you go.
https://www.silencershop.com/silencers/large-bore/bowers-vers-50.html

 

[steve123]

Yea, not sure about the OP's gun (probably louder) but after touching mine off at a local indoor range I had to have a 20 min talk with three range masters about the difference between 50 BMG and 50 Beowulf. I warned everyone but three women still jumped out of their skin. I take it just for the attention sometimes.

Just ranting..

I got kicked out of Ben Avery shooting range because those dumbasses couldn't understand the difference between 50BMG and my 375CT. I said, well if someone showed up here with a elephant gun would you kick them out? Uh no of course you wouldn't. Then they said I might ricochet a bullet over the mountain, so I said anybody here could do the same and besides I was shooting into the dirt berm at targets trying to work up a load, not at the mountain which is against the rules. Idiots, 5 hour round trip waisted...

Range Nazies

Cool SBR you have!!!

 

[2ndamendfan]

Just ranting..

I got kicked out of Ben Avery shooting range because those dumbasses couldn't understand the difference between 50BMG and my 375CT. I said, well if someone showed up here with a elephant gun would you kick them out? Uh no of course you wouldn't. Then they said I might ricochet a bullet over the mountain, so I said anybody here could do the same and besides I was shooting into the dirt berm at targets trying to work up a load, not at the mountain which is against the rules. Idiots, 5 hour round trip waisted...

Range Nazies

Cool SBR you have!!!

Yea, I hate it when the range masters barely know the difference between rim fire and center fire. In my case I brought up the 500 S&W and the thought of a 50 cal revolver messed with their brains. The Beowulf is very similar to the 500 S&W ballisticly. 500S&W is a lot higher pressure but they are in the same ball park for comparison, they did not grasp that.

 

[steve123]

Yea, I hate it when the range masters barely know the difference between rim fire and center fire. In my case I brought up the 500 S&W and the thought of a 50 cal revolver messed with their brains. The Beowulf is very similar to the 500 S&W ballisticly. 500S&W is a lot higher pressure but they are in the same ball park for comparison, they did not grasp that.

LOL, great point! No grasp for the obvious!