The Firearm thread: Engineering artistry of wood, polymer and steel.

[Stealhead]

Originally Posted by Red October1984

Here's one for the previous "Dumb Design" discussion



How does .17/.50 even work?!

It is a joke no such round exists.I suppose it would be feasible though all that power on such a narrow neck I am not sure that it would work from a cartridge standpoint.

You could make a chamber strong enough and a bolt but a firearm must also have a cartridge that will not tear itself apart.

Also as Platapus mentioned the ballistics would be a problem.That much powered on such a small bullet it would likely simply disintegrate either inside the barrel or in flight.If it did not tear off the top of the casing before getting to that point.

It is just a fake cartridge someone made in a machine shop.

Also .17/.50= 0.34

Here is another joke round .22 necked down .50.
http://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2...ed-down-to-22/

These are novelty "rounds" poking fun at the many real super varmint rounds not to say they(the real ones) are ineffective but more of a "what if a some crazy redneck did this?"