Hornady 50 BMG Ammunition - 100 Rounds of 750 Grain A-MAX Match

Let’s get this out of the way first. This is not 50 AE ammo. Even if you could chamber one of these behemoth rifle cartridges in your Desert Eagle – which you can’t – you’d more or less nuke yourself the instant you squeezed the trigger.

That’d be a real shame, because Hornady truly doesn’t intend for this ammo to hurt anyone or any animal. It’s match ammo: the stuff you need if you truly want to witness the 50 BMG’s legendary long-range accuracy and precision firsthand.

This round is loaded with the heaviest bullet you’re liable to find in a commercial 50 BMG factory load. It’s a 750 grain whopper, and has a somewhat low 2,815 fps muzzle velocity (36” test barrel) to show for it. That’s a price worth paying, though, because crosswinds have all their work ahead of them if they want to push this lunker very far off course.

The A-MAX Match is a sleek, balanced, and beautiful match projectile. It boasts the same rotational stability as any top-shelf BTHP or OTM, and cuts an even cleaner channel through the air thanks to its sharp tip. Once it hits its billed muzzle velocity, the 750 grain A-MAX Match shows off a soaring 1.050 G1 ballistic coefficient. It will stay supersonic for almost half a mile!

This ammo’s new brass cases will make a welcome addition to any handloader’s pantry, and its primers and propellant charges won’t disappoint said handloader in the meantime. You’ll just need one more thing to enjoy this fancy ammo: fancy targets.