Gary Reeder
the 50 AE is a bitch to load. It headspaces on
Monday, April 27, 2020, 11:05

the mouth of the case and the recoil is sorta stiff so you have to really do a hard taper crimp. If you do too much the case drops too far in the chamber. If you crimp too little the bullet eases out under recoil. Most of the companies that I know of glue the bullet in the case.

We were the first ones to build the 50 AE in a revolver in our Lucifer's Hammer way back in '91 or so. A good friend at IMI, the folks that made the ammo, sent me a batch of the brass just to tease me, so I had a reamer made and logos registered and built the prototype revolver and built 50 of the 50s. I may bring it back one day but the 50 AE was such a headache, I probably will pass on it.