[jimhigginbotham]

I remember the load but I never had much experience with it. One big PD I know of confiscated over 1,000 rounds of it from a biker gang and they shot it up in various tests but I wasn't there.

Seems that I somehow got the impression that it was rather erratic in its terminal performance.

I would say it would make a great collectors item for sure!

Sorry I cannot be more help.
Jim

 

[jimhigginbotham]

Wes;
This was back in the 80's and I think it ran about $1 a round but money was probably no object because they confiscated a couple of M2 .50s and a 61mm mortar along with it...these guys were ready to take gang warfare to a new level.

I am sure it really bothered them that that other stuff was illegal

Onward!
Jim

 

[jimhigginbotham]

Wes;
The story I got was that these guys were preparing for a turf war with a rival gang. You just have to wonder about guys who are apparently willing to set of mortars or even .50 AP within the limits of a major metropolitan area.

Then again it might have been some weird underworld form of Detente. In any case an undercover operation exposed the thing before the top blew. My hat is off to the guys who managed to bring all of these folks in...I don't recall there was any shooting during the arrest.

10-4 on the BAT, I am not sure what the status is but if memory serves (and that has been the start of many a misadventure right there ), they were made of some homogenous allowy like a brass or bronze or some such and that probably does not meet the importation requirements.

Best regards!
Jim

 

[jimhigginbotham]

Thanks guys, that sounds about right to me. I could not remember the material just that it was homogenous with some sort of plastic plug. I think the plastic had something to do with the inconsistency but I don't really recall the details.
Jim

 

[jimhigginbotham]

Rusty;
Yeah, those bullets to the back of the head play hob with the statistical comparisons

Onward,
Jim