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Posted: 2/10/2008 7:47:26 PM EDT
| Saw one advertised a few years ago, advertised as a pack rifle for bear country-are they still around? It would be interesting to see what the .50AE can do in a rifle instead of a Desert Eagle(love the look, grip just doesn't fit my hands). Might be a fun deer gun if Iowa ever allows pistol caliber rifles(doubtful but I'd sure like it). |
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I have wondered for some time why the demand for these were less than stellar. From what I recall, when he was making them, the prices he was charging weren't out of the ballpark for custom uppers. I'm curious if it was ammo prices. The .50AE seems to be increasing in price at a much slower pace than .223. A few years ago when Tromix was making these, people were likely asking themselves why pay so much more for ammo. .223/5.56 has recently (the last twelve months) outpaced all other calibers as far as I have seen in price inflation. Of the calibers that the Sledgehammer uppers were being produced in, this was, at the time, the closest thing to a standard round. If I am correct, he was making the Sledgehammer in .458 SOCOM (at the time this was fairly new), .50AE, and .440 CorBon. There might have been others, but those three are the ones I remember. Oh well, if he were still making those, it's quite possible that he'd never done all he has for the Saiga shotguns. |
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