The big horn armory ar500 has amped up the cartridge to a serious big game hunting rifle cartridge.
Big horn armory ar500 review.
For us that means the bigger the better.
Whether it s packing 36 800 ft lbs of energy in a lever action or building the.
A buffalo bore 440 grain hard cast load with 1 900 fps velocity generates close to 4 000 ft lbs of whup ass.
Being a rimmed cartridge isn t well suited to box magazine fed rifles.
We like to think big at big horn armory.
The ar500 is an ar rifle like no other.
Ar500 500 auto max rifle.
Felt recoil is still rather stout maybe on par with shooting 3 inch magnum shells out of a 12 gauge pump gun but not joint busting.
The result was the 500 auto max a reduced rim 500 s w currently available loaded.
It is difficult to compare the bha ar500 pistol to any other cartridge and platform combo on the market.
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.
This combined with a mid length gas system and an in line muzzle brake makes the ar500 manageable.
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Chambered in 500 auto max our ground breaking ar500 rifle is the most powerful ar firearm available.
Since we re gun guys like you we only build guns that give us a reason to jump out of bed in the morning.
The big horn ar500 500 auto max can effectively harvest any animal.
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.
We were not content with the big bore cartridge offerings available in the ar platform so we made our own.
As a result we re not your average gun manufacturer.
Specifically big horn armory uses an 18 pound recoil spring and a 3 8 ounce buffer.
Thanks to big horn armory and buffalo bore for the opportunity and the ammunition.
So big horn armory started with an ar 10 and the end result is a rifle it calls the ar500.
You ve never heard of this cartridge because it didn t exist before big horn armory began developing the ar500.
Obviously the bolt has to be altered as the new rim on the 500 auto max is a nominal 520 inch in.
