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Witch one bigger 7 mm or 50 cal

KonetKonet Member Posts: 72 ✭✭
edited February 2002 in General Discussion
Witch is biger cal 7Mm or 50 cal??
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  • JustCJustC Member Posts: 16,056 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    7mm = .284"50 cal= .500"
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  • thesupermonkeythesupermonkey Member Posts: 3,905 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    ROFLMAO
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  • dheffleydheffley Member Posts: 25,000 ✭
    edited November -1
    Kind of like comparing a Toyota to a Peterbuilt!
    Save, research, then buy the best.Join the NRA, NOW!Teach them young, teach them safe, teach them forever, but most of all, teach them to VOTE!
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  • agloreaglore Member Posts: 6,012
    edited November -1
    Correction7mm=.28450 cal=.508
    AlleninAlaska
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  • BullzeyeBullzeye Member Posts: 3,560
    edited November -1
    Wasnt this the same guy who wanted to buy an M4?Y'know, "the kind like those Rangers and Delta Force use!"
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  • He DogHe Dog Member Posts: 51,593 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Konet, to avoid the ribbing, you might want to pick up a book or two. No one is born an expert, but this is pretty basic. Try "Cartridges of the World," 9th Ed. and then go to the advanced book exchange http://whipper.abebooks.com/abep/il.dll?ph=1 and look for O'Connors "The Hunting Rifle", Carmichael's "The Book of the Rifle" or Page's "The Accurate Rifle" or better still get all of them. Hang in there.
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  • thesupermonkeythesupermonkey Member Posts: 3,905 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Konet,I sorry for laughing. It takes guts to ask about the simpler stuff. As for the 50 = .508 and 7mm = .284 I couldn't have told you that. To be honest, the caliber system bewilders me too. Maybe it's because I don't reload.The Daft Monkey
    Don't worry about the bullet with your name on it, worry about the fragmentation grenade addressed 'To Occupant'.
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  • 22WRF22WRF Member Posts: 3,385
    edited November -1
    50 Cal = 12.7 mm
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  • whiteclouderwhiteclouder Member Posts: 10,574 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Something described as 50 caliber is in fact .5 inch. Only when you are using the 'brand' designation, like 30 Remington (.308) or 270 Winchester (.277) will you see a difference between the actual dimension and that stated in the designation. That said, 50 caliber is nearly twice the size of a 7MM.Clouder..
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  • robsgunsrobsguns Member Posts: 4,581 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Konet, Just so you feel a little better, let me help you out. .50 cal. is also .512 if buying a standard Lyman bullet mold, in a conical version; .509 if you're buying a Barnes XLC rifle bullet; .510 if you're buying a Hornady 750gr. A/MAX; and a muzzle loader in .50 cal. shoots a .490 (industry standard more or less) diameter bullet. So you see, even some of us experts can be fooled with when talking of bullet size. Thank the industry for having such great (standards?) I'm no whiz, this is just info. you can easily look up for yourself with something as simple as a reloading manual, available cheap enough, especially if you get an old one someone is getting rid of.
    SSgt Ryan E. Roberts, USMC
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  • jdb123jdb123 Member Posts: 471 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    wow. please get some training {no really} before you fire either.
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  • thesupermonkeythesupermonkey Member Posts: 3,905 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Jeez robsguns,And you wonder why we're so confused...
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  • JustCJustC Member Posts: 16,056 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    And to complete Robsguns accurate and in depth investigation into the +/- thousandths of an inch variation between the caliber designation of the 50 cal projectile as listed and advertised by some of our countries finest manufactureres and sources of match components, we arrive at the only one left:.........the 50 cal sabot in the modern muzzleloader which often contains a projectile of only .45cal or even .44 caliber. Now, does that clear anything up for ya?Man Robsguns, I thought I read too many balistics tables and reloading manuals to be considered stable. (heheheheh)
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  • idsman75idsman75 Member Posts: 13,398 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    The only stupid question is the one that is not asked. Failure to ask the "simpler" questions can cause a newbie great harm. Ask away. On Sunday afternoons I listen to Tom Gresham's "Gun Talk" talk radio show via the internet because my local stations don't carry it. I love the show but the callers typically ask similar types of questions. I've called in three times and have gotten on the air each time. Tom even helped me out when I was a newbie and was writing a letter to the editor of my college newspaper with regards to a previously printed anti-gun article. The author happened to be from Canada. Go figure. Gun Talk typically entertains some rather "newbie-esque" topics but I still learn something every time I listen. I still remember trying to figure out why a .308 was more powerful than a .380. Read some books and even some reloading manuals. It's fascinating stuff. I started by reading several years worth of back issues of Guns and Ammo and American Rifleman.
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  • mudgemudge Member Posts: 4,225 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Konet.....All this "point" something-or-other notwithstanding, let me try to 'splain it in terms everyone can understand. A 7mm is about the diameter of a pencil. A .50 cal. is about the diameter of one of the keys on your keyboard. How's that?Mudge the simple minded(Did I say that right?)
    I can't come to work today. The voices said, STAY HOME AND CLEAN THE GUNS!
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