1A/2A: MILITIA, BEING
1A/2A: NECESSARY TO
The numbers don’t lie. 2,760 feet per second. About what you could expect from a 6.5 Creedmoor, lobbing a 140-grain bullet, with a .310 G7 ballistic coefficient. The MRAD ELR’s projectiles exit its barrel right about the same speed, but the other numbers are different.
Those digits are why the gun was designed. While the Barrett’s muzzle velocity is nothing remarkable, the mass, length, and aerodynamics of its 500-grain A-tip bullet means it can, and has, hit targets out to two miles.
In terms of sheer weight, the rifle is probably the biggest we’ve ever featured in RECOIL, and its presence is imposing — there’s no mistaking it for anything other than a means to deliver enormous energy at will on distant targets, but…