Big Horn Armory Ar500 Review

Specifically big horn armory uses an 18 pound recoil spring and a 3 8 ounce buffer.

Big horn armory ar500 review.

The big horn armory ar500 has amped up the cartridge to a serious big game hunting rifle cartridge. Thanks to big horn armory and buffalo bore for the opportunity and the ammunition. It is difficult to compare the bha ar500 pistol to any other cartridge and platform combo on the market. So big horn armory started with an ar 10 and the end result is a rifle it calls the ar500.

The ar500 is an ar rifle like no other. This led buchel and big horn armory to produce the ar500 chambered in the massive 500 auto max cartridge. The big horn ar500 500 auto max can effectively harvest any animal. As a result we re not your average gun manufacturer.

Chambered in 500 auto max our ground breaking ar500 rifle is the most powerful ar firearm available. Being a rimmed cartridge isn t well suited to box magazine fed rifles. The result was the 500 auto max a reduced rim 500 s w currently available loaded. For us that means the bigger the better.

We were not content with the big bore cartridge offerings available in the ar platform so we made our own. Obviously the bolt has to be altered as the new rim on the 500 auto max is a nominal 520 inch in. You ve never heard of this cartridge because it didn t exist before big horn armory began developing the ar500. Based on the 500 s w cartridge the 500 auto max a rimless straight walled case designed to work in an ar style rifle as the 500 s w mag.

Ar500 500 auto max rifle. A buffalo bore 440 grain hard cast load with 1 900 fps velocity generates close to 4 000 ft lbs of whup ass. This combined with a mid length gas system and an in line muzzle brake makes the ar500 manageable. Felt recoil is still rather stout maybe on par with shooting 3 inch magnum shells out of a 12 gauge pump gun but not joint busting.

We like to think big at big horn armory. The ar500 offers devastating and accurate mid range power from the ar 10 platform in a portable package and from my experience it delivers on that promise quite well. Big horn armory has created its own ar sub category with the ar500 chambered in 500 auto max. For more information or to order please visit.