Meet the .960 caliber JDJ Fat Mac, a firearm I only just learned exists.
One pound at 2,200 FPS is a mere 38,685 foot pounds muzzle energy.
Lunatic: But it has a muzzle brake.
Cartridge: I sneer at your muzzle brake. Prepare to suffer serious injury or death!
If you want one (and find someone willing to part with one of the only three manufactured), you’ll only need around $100,000.
And oddly enough, despite the well-over-half-inch bore, you don’t need an NFA tax stamp. It has a “sporting use” exemption. Darned if I know what you’d hunt with it… on this planet.
I admit it: I want one. Because. If I win the lottery, I may not tell anyone, but there’ll be signs.
(Hat tip to Wisco Dave.)
The bullet is not one pound; it’s typically 3,600 grains, or a touch over a half-pound.
Still, the amount of kinetic energy is similar to that of a mid-sized car traveling at 18.5 mph. Try to stop that with your shoulder.
“Sporting exemption” or no, what would you hunt with that thing? MRAPs? (Things that make you go, “Hmmm….”)
Years ago at a waterfowl show I shot a punt gun mounted to a boat that held 1lb of lead #2. Also shoulder fired a 8ga. Double barrel so I reckon I would give that thing a try.