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Casp_A · April 10, 2005, 09:23 PM

I don't know about the company or the uppers or what happened to them, but the one thing I do know is that you have to realize the caliber, ".50 AE" is not in fact .50 Action Express. It's called .50 American Eagle, and is a straight-walled, .50 cal, rebated rim cartridge, designed to have the same rim dimensions as the 7.62x39mm. Basically it's a shorter version of the .50 Beowulf made to use the same bullets as the .50 BMG. There's an entry for it in Cartridges of the World (mine's 10th edition,) that's the only reference to it I've ever seen.

April 10, 2005, 09:23 PM	#3
Casp_A Senior Member Join Date: August 12, 2004 Posts: 495	I don't know about the company or the uppers or what happened to them, but the one thing I do know is that you have to realize the caliber, ".50 AE" is not in fact .50 Action Express. It's called .50 American Eagle, and is a straight-walled, .50 cal, rebated rim cartridge, designed to have the same rim dimensions as the 7.62x39mm. Basically it's a shorter version of the .50 Beowulf made to use the same bullets as the .50 BMG. There's an entry for it in Cartridges of the World (mine's 10th edition,) that's the only reference to it I've ever seen. __________________ Johnny was a chemist's son, but Johnny is no more. What Johnny thought was H2O was H2SO4.