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Ackman, what's the excitement about this .408TRS? Barrett says the .416 Barrett runs 3200fps with the 400gr slug. Don
I don't shoot any of those cartridges. A friend in Idaho does. He's got all kinds of highpower stuff and likes to shoot sniper matches. Also shoots a .338Lapua and a .50BMG. A few years back he and his wizard riflebuilder were talking about different things. They wanted to come up with something that would shoot that same high-bc 419gr bullet as the Chey tec, only faster and flatter. They decided on the .50BMG spotter case. The .50 spotter round uses a considerably shorter version of the .50BMG case to shoot an 870gr bullet with the same trajectory as an 11mm howitzer. They necked that case down to .408, gave it less body taper and a steeper shoulder. It's a beautiful thing, looks like a jumbo Improved case. As of now brass is military surplus but that would change if the military stuff ever became too hard to get. The whole idea behind this was to just beat the 408 Chey tec and use a military .50cal platform. So it shoots the 419gr solid about 300fps faster at 3200.....that bullet has a bc of .950-something depending on altitude and it's still supersonic at 2500yds. These things aren't cheap to shoot. A barrel chambered and fitted costs something like $800-$900. Brass costs about $2.00 each, bullets are about $2.50 each, and 1lb of powder only lasts for 35rounds at 200gr per shot. Plus it takes a .50cal press, expensive dies, and .50cal primers. Barrett later came out with their own version in .416....uses a slightly lighter bullet with slightly less bc, and it's also terrific.