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Not Recommended for Grunts – The .959 Rifle

Sometimes you need something with some uumph. In the summer of 1914 an older British volunteer is said to have knocked a German aircraft down with a mounted 2-gauge fowling piece. Correia’s Owen Pitt used a custom Saiga to go after dangerous prey and Buettner’s Jazen Parker a HATT to do the same thing. Authors are going to need to consider this now.

It’s a .959 caliber rifle; 2,400 grain $40 bullet driven by 240 grains of powder.


Read about it over on BOLO Report.
-DR

This entry was posted on Thursday, February 9th, 2012 at 11:38 and is filed under Black Rifle, weapons, WTF?. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

12 Responses to “Not Recommended for Grunts – The .959 Rifle”

  1. mpower6428 says:
    February 9, 2012 at 12:40

    we just found our new M4 carbine replacement…. in toon town.

  2. Corsair8X says:
    February 9, 2012 at 13:14

    What strikes me is that some of these guys were pretty big guys and they still got kicked back like that. Impressive.

  3. reverend says:
    February 9, 2012 at 13:20

    10X the recoil of a .30-06, did I hear that right? HOLY (fill in with your own expletive)

  4. Reptar says:
    February 9, 2012 at 13:49

    I need this caliber in a 3-shot revolver.

  5. John M. Denny says:
    February 9, 2012 at 15:49

    So they found a way to make plinking a challenge…

  6. Alan says:
    February 9, 2012 at 15:50

    Another example of “Just because you CAN, doesn’t mean you SHOULD.”

    Recoil-Ridiculous.Weight-Impractical.

    .50 Cal is about the largest,practical, Infantry Sniper rifle you can field.

  7. Orion307 says:
    February 9, 2012 at 16:10

    Absolutely ridiculous but cool. Give a redneck enough idle time and some knowledge in machinery and this is the result.

  8. Christian says:
    February 9, 2012 at 21:55

    I want to see video the of the rounds impacting the target.

  9. Tim Thomas says:
    February 9, 2012 at 22:45

    Then new and improved pursuit inderdiction devise…!

    Foe those runaway Oldsmobiles…!

  10. Aaron says:
    February 9, 2012 at 23:37

    some big bore fanatics out there:
    http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums/showthread.php?162222-12GA-From-Hell-8Ga-FH-4GA-FH-700HE-585HE-years-of-fun-work

  11. Brian Muoio says:
    February 10, 2012 at 04:14

    This gun was actually made to take down BIG FOOT!
    I also want to see what it can penetrate. Armor truck for starters would be cool to see it go through both sides.