Being a rimmed cartridge isn t well suited to box magazine fed rifles.
Big horn armory ar500 review.
Specifically big horn armory uses an 18 pound recoil spring and a 3 8 ounce buffer.
Whether it s packing 36 800 ft lbs of energy in a lever action or building the.
The result was the 500 auto max a reduced rim 500 s w currently available loaded.
This led buchel and big horn armory to produce the ar500 chambered in the massive 500 auto max cartridge.
We like to think big at big horn armory.
The ar500 offers devastating and accurate mid range power from the ar 10 platform in a portable package and from my experience it delivers on that promise quite well.
For us that means the bigger the better.
We were not content with the big bore cartridge offerings available in the ar platform so we made our own.
The ar500 is an ar rifle like no other.
Thanks to big horn armory and buffalo bore for the opportunity and the ammunition.
It is difficult to compare the bha ar500 pistol to any other cartridge and platform combo on the market.
Ar500 500 auto max rifle.
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The big horn ar500 500 auto max can effectively harvest any animal.
Since we re gun guys like you we only build guns that give us a reason to jump out of bed in the morning.
As a result we re not your average gun manufacturer.
This combined with a mid length gas system and an in line muzzle brake makes the ar500 manageable.
A buffalo bore 440 grain hard cast load with 1 900 fps velocity generates close to 4 000 ft lbs of whup ass.
So big horn armory started with an ar 10 and the end result is a rifle it calls the ar500.
Based on the 500 s w cartridge the 500 auto max a rimless straight walled case designed to work in an ar style rifle as the 500 s w mag.
The big horn armory ar500 has amped up the cartridge to a serious big game hunting rifle cartridge.
As the folks at buffalo bore ammunition explain greg buchel the owner of big horn armory approached the ammo company for help developing a 50 caliber cartridge suitable for the ar 10 platform.
You ve never heard of this cartridge because it didn t exist before big horn armory began developing the ar500.
Big horn armory has created its own ar sub category with the ar500 chambered in 500 auto max.
