.50 BMG (no ontology)

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.50 BMG (also known as .50 Browning Machine Gun or more rarely 12.7x99mm NATO) is a rifle cartridge originally designed in the late 1910s as a heavy machine gun round, it entered US military service in 1921 as the cartridge used by M2 Browning machine gun. Much later, during the 1980s, the cartridge was adapted for use in upscaled precision rifles dubbed anti-matériel rifles, with the first of them being the Barrett M82. The M82 was eventually also adopted by the US military as the M107, and several match-grade loads were developed, to emphasize on the accuracy that is typically demanded out of military precision rifles. Dimensionally, .50 BMG is based on a greatly upscaled version of .30-06 Springfield.

In the Mazes, due to their extreme power, as well as the resulting cost of both firearms and ammunition, weapons chambered in .50 BMG are typically reserved for threats of exceptional nature.

Mazeworld overview

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• Available for purchase in a gun shop or a weapon shop in boxes of 10 or bulk cans of 100.
• Available brands and projectile types:
  • Standard (Regular, SP): FMJ, Match, AP, API
  • Reduced Velocity (Regular, -P): FMJ
  • Milsurp (Surplus, SP): FMJ
  • Sniper Premium (Premium, SP): FMJ, Match
• Retail value of a standard round (Reg/FMJ/SP): 35 P$ /round
• Recoil level: 7 - Extreme

Handloading information

• Primer type: Machine gun
• Powder type: Rifle
• Projectile type: .510, 800 grain
• Standard load: 2850 pwdr
  • -P load: 2565 pwdr

• Cost of a 50 case box: 475 P$ (0.9 P$/case)
• Estimated cost to handload 1 standard round (Reg/FMJ/SP): 21.092 P$

Weapons compatible

Standard weapons

Total amount of standard weapons available in this caliber: 3

Class 1 weapons:

• Anzio Ironworks Super Lightweight, precision rifle
• Barrett M82A1M, precision rifle
• McMillan Tac-50, precision rifle

Maze Customs

• Customs weapon families: Available as a chambering for the Black Arrow family.
• Minor services: M82A1M CQ (Tactical conversion for the Barrett M82A1M)

Barrel length groups

Depending on the barrel length of the firearm, a multiplier to Pain and Limb damage is applied. Please refer to the lists of weapons or to the event lines to know your particular weapons' barrel length.

Gallery

.50 BMG FMJ

See also

• Ammunition
• Weapon

Real life information

• Wikipedia article