This is a bullet smaller than the bore diameter (like a .45 caliber bullet shot from a .50 caliber muzzleloader) that sits in a plastic sleeve (called a sabot) that falls off in flight.

EXACTO converted .50 caliber bullets into guided rounds, which allows for snipers to direct fired bullets mid-flight towards their desired targets.

The .50 caliber M17 is used in the M2, M3 and M85 machine guns. The .50 caliber M20 API-T has a red bullet tip with an aluminum color annulus.

New for 2023, Hornady announces its .50-caliber Bore Driver ELD-X bullet, taking muzzleloading rifles to new heights. Using a bullet diameter of 0.499 inches, the Bore Driver ELD-X features a large ...

Bullet fragmentation has been well-described in many modern, high-velocity rifles, but not for black-powder cartridge rifles or muzzleloading firearms, said Clinton Epps, a wildlife ecologist at ...

In fact, in a U.S. Army Readiness Development and Engineering Command document, the new bullet designs perform as well as or better than existing .50 caliber bullets in penetrating 3/8" steel armor.

A .50-caliber machine gun mounted on a U.S. Army Humvee, 2003. This gives a pretty good idea of the size and power of the machine gun Russian engineers think they can stop with polyethylene armor.

Traditions has introduced the NitroBolt, the first bolt-action muzzleloading rifle designed specifically to use the patented Federal FireStick ignition system, so hunters need only load their bullet ...