#10MinuteTalk – 12.7x99 NATO (50 BMG!)

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🗓️ 19 May 2020

⏱️ 14 minutes

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If you’re familiar with all four official NATO cartridges, you had to know this one was coming as the grand finale to our NATO cartridges series. The incredible 50 BMG – perhaps sometimes looked at as though made of unicorn horns and leprechaun dust – Ryan Muckenhirn explains the origins of this old beast, what its reasonable capabilities actually are, its many applications, and why you should have a half inch gun in your own safe for when SHTF. You simply can’t miss the one about the biggest of them all.

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0:00.0	What's up everybody? We have 10 minutes here with Ryan Muckenhair and yet again to discuss the last of the NATO cartridges from our NATO specials here
0:07.3	Which is the 12-7 by 99 aka the 50 bm g let's be honest everybody loved going around with the 50 bm g Barrett and call
0:17.4	duty modern warfare to and whooping up on your friends and it is a monster we have a case here doesn't even have the actual
0:25.0	projectile loaded into it those loaded ones are down at the range right now
0:28.2	next to my now gene you can I mean it you can actually start comparing it to the size of an
0:33.7	an al gene I mean it's not actually what the bullet in I'd be curious to see the yes tall it's
0:38.3	a bigen are big boys gondes the big dog now this guy, because we have up until now, you got your 9 by 19, you got your 5, 5, 6, 2, okay, it seems like stuff most guys are going to be carrying around.
0:50.5	This one on the other hand, it's got to have some super hyper special use.
0:55.0	I mean what's it designed for putting holes in tanks?
0:57.0	So it's a true heavy machine gun round from anti material and when we say material
1:02.2	we're talking everything from radar dishes,
1:04.8	buildings, jeeps, aircraft, and anti-personnel. It's one of the old, well it's the oldest one that we're going to talk about
1:12.2	today, 1918 and
1:13.3	1921 adoption.
1:15.1	No kidding.
1:16.1	This is the oldest one.
1:17.5	Mm-hmm.
1:18.5	I wouldn't have talked about that.
1:19.7	That we've talked about.
1:20.7	Right.
1:20.9	Right.
1:21.3	1918 and 21 adoption. I wouldn't,'t yeah I wouldn't have thought that either I
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