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.500 A-Square — Wikipedia (en)

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  title = {.500 A-Square — Wikipedia (en)},
  howpublished = {Wikipedia (en)},
  url = {https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.500_A-Square},
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The .500 A-Square is a belted, bottleneck rifle cartridge, developed by Arthur Alphin in 1976. The cartridge is based on the .460 Weatherby Magnum necked up to accept the .510 in (12.95 mm) bullet; the same as the .50 BMG cartridge. This was Col. Alphin's first commercial sporting cartridge and was designed in "response to some severe problems experienced with the .458 Winchester Magnum on safari in Mozambique." The .500 A-Square was a proprietary cartridge and the world's most powerful commercially available sporting cartridge. However, the .50 BMG is the world's most powerful commercial cartridge for any shooting purpose. The .500 A-Square is used specifically for the hunting of elephants and Cape buffalo as well being used as a backup gun for professional hunters and guides while hunting thick skin dangerous game in Africa.

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Fonte: Wikipedia in inglese, voce «.500 A-Square» — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.500_A-Square
Wikidata Q4545383 (dati Wikidata in CC0 1.0) — https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4545383
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