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Post by Caliber on Feb 27, 2012 22:41:07 GMT -5
The .500 Wake is a custom-tooled pistol cartridge, built for use in .45 Auto-based auto-loading platforms. It was designed, developed, and created by munitions expert and arms technician Celeste Wake in the year 2011. The round was adopted by the Emergency Trauma Surgical Service (E.T.S.S.) sect of the Special Tactics and Rescue Squad (S.T.A.R.S.) division of the Bio-terrorism Security Assessment Alliance (B.S.A.A.) in the year 2012, for use in the Brugger and Thomet MP-45 Prototypes, which were adopted by the E.T.S.S. in late 2010. The round was inspired by, and therefor possesses elements of both the .50 GI and .460 Rowland cartridges. Physically, the cartridge is both slightly longer and wider than the .45 Auto round, matching the width of the .50 GI, and slightly surpassing the length of the .460 Rowland. The .500 Wake also has a rebated rim, which is of the same diameter as that of the .45 Auto cartridge. The goal of the .500 Wake is to propel a three-hundred grain, point-fifty caliber bullet at velocities similar to those reached by the .460 Rowland cartridges. On hot loads, the .500 Wake is capable of reaching a velocity of more than one thousand feet-per-second out of a five inch barrel.
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Post by Winters on Feb 27, 2012 23:50:36 GMT -5
Looking fancy, big boom, convienient package. Hee yaw, pardner.
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