20 mm rifle. What would be best, or legal to hunt?

Question

20 mm rifle. What would be best, or legal to hunt?

Answer 1

20mm is a cannon shell, not a machine gun round like 50BMG. Therefore it is -explosive.- I don't know about you but I hate breaking my teeth on shrapnel when I bite into that venison roast.

If there is any roast left, that is.

Answer 2

i believe .50bmg is the largest caliber that you can leagally hunt with. But what the hell would you shoot with a 20mm?A soviet tank?That would destroy the meat on just about anything save an elephant or blue whale. My advice is that it is probably illagal and not a smart thing to do. Plus the ammo prices are out the a**

Answer 3

In keeping with the new Yahoo pre-schooler-compliant guidelines, guys in Washington with big hats sometimes get confused. One day they say 1/2 inch is the limit for guns which might hurt Bambi, and then they go out with shotgun slugs measuring almost 3/4 inch and pretend that their guns without working sights make it okay to endanger a cute little animal. While in Africa, big enough hats make it okay for big noisy stagecoach double-guns of 6/10 inch to 7/10 inch to be used around circus animals. So maybe big hats overheat the head, and a cool drink should be served.



(See what such guidelines do to a hunting section?)

Answer 4

You want to hunt with an .80 caliber rifle? Even the .50 BMG is not a hunting rifle since it weights in at around 34 pounds. Imagine what the 20mm weighs.



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Answer 5

what are we hunting? Armored cars, personnel carriers or just breaking into something like a bank vault?



Not practical or legal for use on game animals of any size... especially if you intend to recover any usable portion of said game animal.

Answer 6

tyrannosaurus obviously...

Answer 7

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Answer 8

KS has no maximum caliber limit for hunting but will not allow full auto for hunting. Other states may be different.

Answer 9

I believe you'd be allowed, but what the hell are you gonna hunt with it, anything hit will have a good 4-5 foot hole torn out of the side as a exit hole, if the animal isn't blown in half.

it might be fun to see what happens to a prairie dog when impact happens, the damn projectile is almost as big as the rodent, maybe vaporization??? "hey, I think I found a foot" lol

Answer 10

I'm not sure but I have a friend with a 20mm rifle that I can ask the next time I see him. Now keep in mind a 20mm rifle may run about as much as a semi-auto 50cal rifle but the ammo is totally different. My friend spends 5.00 a piece having his casings re-sized. That doesn't include the projectiles, propellant, and primers. And you're talking a lot of powder. A single 50 BMG casing holds about 235grs of powder and you can only reload about 28-30rds per pound. I can't recall the 20mm but it's far less. I'll have to ask but I want to say he spend about 20.00 per round reloading. I've thought about buying one my self but I just don't want to deal with the paper work. My friend used to be a Class III dealer so he's used to it.



Anyhow, as for kick, he's got a Lahti L-39 and it slides a full grown man back about 4-6 feet.

Answer 11

CAn't answer the Legality question for full auto nationwide, but it is illegal in Oklahoma & Calipornia.

As for the logic, I was shown a falling block single shot rifle built by (or for) the Old Western Scrounger when he was still in Montague, Ca. He stated that the guy wanting the rifle built intended on shooting elk from mountain to mountain in Colorado. Problem was that the rifle weighed in EMPTY at over 16 pounds...

Answer 12

Technically anything 20mm or larger is a cannon, no matter the action or form of the weapon. .600 Overkill with 900 grain bullets @ 2400fps sounds like a winner. 450 fps more than .600 Nitro and the gun itself is thousands of $ cheaper The .700 Nitro express is a larger caliber but I've heard some comments of disatisfaction concerning its real world performance. Soviet 14.5x114mm is a beast! +22,000 lb ft.

Answer 13

Try a bazooka...