.17 Incinerator — Ultimate Varmint Cartridge with Mach 5 Speed
In the world of varmint cartridges, it’s all about speed. Higher velocity delivers flatter trajectories, and more dramatic impacts on critters. To achieve higher speeds, handloaders have experimented with many extreme wildcats — big cases necked down to a smaller calibers. Here we present what may be the most extreme wildcat cartridge of all, the .17 Incinerator — a .50 BMG necked down to .17 caliber. Created by Ammo-One, a custom cartridge company, the .17 Incinerator offers blistering performance. The special lathe-turned 33gr projectiles* exit the barrel at 5883 Feet Per Second — that’s over Mach 5, five times the speed of sound.
Mach 5 is 3836.35 mph at sea level, which equates to 5626.64 Feet Per Second (FPS). The remarkable .17 Incinerator achieves this stunning velocity by burning over 230 grains of powder in a highly modified .50 BMG case. The velocity of this cartridge (still well over Mach 5 at 100 yards) delivers an incredible amount of energy on target. A hit literally vaporizes a varmint, as you can see from the image below.
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It takes a special barrel to shoot the .17 Incinerator. Kent Wilson of Ammo-One, who helped develop this extreme wildcat, explains: “The speeds are so great we had to use a custom 3-groove, polygonal-rifling 1:20″-twist barrel to keep the bullets from disintegrating on launch. The polygonal land/groove geometry reduces bullet engraving, which also helps keep the bullets in one piece. Also we must use solids — regular jacketed bullets can’t handle these speeds”.
Even More Speed — the .17 Incinerator Improved
While the .17 Incinerator is commercially available, there is an even more extreme “Improved” version of this case, with a radical 50-degree shoulder that yields even greater case capacity. The .17 Incinerator Improved (17 IN-IMP), shown below, can hold 20 grains more powder, promising velocities approaching Mach 5.5 or 6189.3 FPS. Now that’s really cookin’!
*Because of the ultra-high velocity generated by the .17 Incinerator, solid bullets must be used. Conventional jacketed projectiles would disintegrate before they reached the target.
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Fun, but daft to the extreme and so, so inefficient!
A properly designed sabotted design, 30 grain sub-projectile and 15 grain sabot, using a .35 calibre barrel, should be able to match or break these speeds with a a modest charge of 45-90 grains of powder; mass to charge ratios of around 1.0-2.0.
You’d need a gun and cartridge to take the generally higher pressure loadings though.
Let me check my calender. Yes, its April fools day…..again!
Haha. I love these April fools posts. Got me a couple times.
Ha! Ha!
Is the velocity the same, worse, or better after 12:00 noon on April 1??
Hahahaha……”fool me once, shame on me, fool me twice, I should be ashamed, fool me a third time, your shameful….or something like that.” -W
Best April Fools yet! Love the improved part.
April fools, you guys are inventive!
Ha-ha Check today’s calendar.
D’oh… I’ve been well and truly hoodwinked!
Didn’t even register. What a plonker :$
Still, the sabotted round mentioned is certainly feasible
This seems like the “logical” development of a fairly old piece of lunacy called the “Eargesplitten Loudenboomer”, which dates back to the 1960s. This can be found described in one of P. O. Ackley’s books.
Fortunately, here in Oz, it’s the 2nd of April…….
despite being 4/1, someone went through the resizing of 50BMG case or was it photo-shopped?
HAHAHAHAHAHA
That’s a good one !!!
Made me laugh and put a smile on my face for a while !
Associated pics – https://www.google.com/search?q=Eargesplitten+Loudenboomer&rls=com.microsoft:en-US:IE-SearchBox&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiKodrXp4bTAhUBerwKHY64DagQsAQIKQ&biw=1546&bih=949#spf=1
From the link above – http://www.saubier.com/forum/showthread.php?t=12984
I know this is a joke (been going around for a long time) but for years I’ve wanted to see someone shoot one of these!
I’m a little late to the party, but I think our beloved editor pulled on over on us this year…
It’s NOT a joke! Follow the link. Apparently you can really buy *one* of these.
Now if he’d just post a link for where to get the guns…
Editor: Good catch — The .17 Incinerator is real — at least as a dummy round. I discussed this wildcat with Bryan Litz and he ventured that pushing that much powder through a .17-caliber barrel was tempting fate…
Barrel life expectancy . . . probably accuracy would start to fall off on the 2nd shot. By the time you get it sighted in you will need a new barrel. Good for a giggle tho.
Where do I get the rifle.
Got problems something terrible with the local drop bears
Dang, I was just about to look up rifles barreled for it!!!