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1980s Era Barrett M82A1 Promo Video

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Fun fact - when that was new, the USMC was needing a beta test baseline for the Raufouss exploding round.
The Force Recon guys planned to overwatch the Soviet field expedient airfields on Norwegian autobahns and then nail each parked MiG with one Raufouss round per nosecone until the Spetsnaz assigned to airfield defense fixed them - then they'd thermite their rifle and haul ass.
Worked on the BOYS AT rifles converted to .50 that did 10" groups at 1,000 yards that were the baseline.
Good times, good time.
 
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Story said:
Fun fact - when that was new, the USMC was needing a beta test baseline for the Raufouss exploding round.
The Force Recon guys planned to overwatch the Soviet field expedient airfields on Norwegian autobahns and then nail each parked MiG with one Raufouss round per nosecone until the Spetsnaz assigned to airfield defense fixed them - then they'd thermite their rifle and haul ass.
Worked on the BOYS AT rifles converted to .50 that did 10" groups at 1,000 yards that were the baseline.
Good times, good time.
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Where can we read more about this?
 
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I had an M82 CQB for a short while about 5 years ago. I think I paid around $6k for it used and sold it for that much. Fun gun but unless you need to take out an engine block or punch through a light armored vehicle it didn't really do anything an .308 doesn't do. The claims in the video are absolutely true. It's an incredibly simple gun for one man to assemble, disassemble and deal with. It's striker fired so the sear is up in the bolt carrier and the trigger group is just a trigger and a lever that presses on the sear when in battery. The trigger pull is long and mushy but the gun is so heavy you dont have to worry much about flinching. The recoil spring is huge but relatively soft because the bolt travel is so long. Even if it gets away from you, one man can easily push it back in the receiver. Realistically though you need at least two or three guys to carry it and a useful load of ammunition any distance.
 
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And seems a waste of a good Boys Rifle, too
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No waste - the company owner took .50 M2 HBs and lathed them down to the O.D. match for the original .55 barrel (so it didn't look dorky). BOYS .50 owners should check the bolt tracks on the receivers for the name(s) of the 'smiths who converted them.

10" bulls at 1,000 yards (Williamsport PA, back when that range existed).

Considering the wartime composition of .55 BOYS rounds and their rarity, the converted rifles should be considered a Service Life Extension Program.
 
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Where can we read more about this?
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I'm not sure if it was ever written up - it it was, maybe one of those old Long Range Shooter newsletters?

Otherwise, you'll have to rely on my worm's eye view and memories from @ 40 years ago (spring/summer 1985).

I can tell you our .50 cartridges were hand rolled like Cuban cigars
A) .10 or less runout on a lathe
B) Annealed brass
C) +/- one (1) grain on bullet weights - so 699 pile, 700 pile, 701 pile
D) +/- one half (.5) grain on powder weights

Additional // The Raufouss was jamming in the Barnett at the time and until they unfucked that issue, they needed to see what a Raufouss could do in a .50 that wasn't jamming. Hence, the accurized BOYS.

As I (vaguely) remember, Raufouss go boom.
 
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