14.9mm SOP Rifle & Cartridge
The 14.9mm SOP is an incredible
extra long range rifle project that a number of people at Snipers Hidehave been
collaborating on. The huge rifle fires a very long and heavy projectile with a
high ballistic coefficient giving it extreme accuracy. It has 0.5 MOA accuracy
at 3000 yards and remains supersonic out to 5400 yards (5
kilometers).
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Photo
taken at XLR Industries.
The 14.9mm SOP cartridge case is
formed from a 20mm Vulcan case. The 1,690 grain projectile leaves the muzzle at
3,350 fps with 42,104 ft/lbs of energy (that is not a typo!). This is almost
twice the muzzle energy of the 14.5×114mm Russian and 14.5mm JDJ. It has more
kinetic energy at the muzzle than a 20mm Vulcan, and far more kinetic energy
downrange, although the Vulcan is carrying an explosive payload (chemical
energy).
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The first test fire …