# Largest caliber rifle (.905) ever produced **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 3, 2013, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/largest-caliber-rifle-905-ever-produced/665220 "2013-08-03T02:57:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![deltasigma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e5b9ba/32.png) [@deltasigma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/deltasigma)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2013, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/largest-caliber-rifle-905-ever-produced/665220/1 "2013-08-03T02:57:15Z")
[You can find a short description here](http://www.businessinsider.com/check-out-the-largest-caliber-rifle-ever-produced-2013-8). Said to be the same as firing 10 .30-06’s simultaneously - and from the looks on some of [these guys faces](http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=98c_1375323160), you can believe it. ---
**Author:** ![Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e36b37/32.png) [@Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Airman_Doors_USAF)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2013, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/largest-caliber-rifle-905-ever-produced/665220/2 "2013-08-03T03:05:55Z")
It’s big for the sake of being big. It’s useless, extraordinarily expensive, and requires NFA rigamarole just to own it, assuming you wanted it. Yet I’d still fire it if it were offered to me. I know I would. And then I’d walk away shaking my head at the silliness of it all. Some things are just too absurd for words. A shoulder-fired artillery piece qualifies. ---
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2013, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/largest-caliber-rifle-905-ever-produced/665220/3 "2013-08-03T03:06:48Z")
First link didn’t work for me. Watched the video. What the hell do you shoot with that thing? Tanks? ---
**Author:** ![deltasigma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e5b9ba/32.png) [@deltasigma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/deltasigma)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2013, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/largest-caliber-rifle-905-ever-produced/665220/4 "2013-08-03T03:12:35Z")
> [@Oakminster](#): > > First link didn’t work for me. Watched the video. What the hell do you shoot with that thing? Tanks? I screwed it up and then fixed it. Mouse over the link and see if the prefix has ‘[straightdope.com](http://straightdope.com)’ in it. If so, refresh since that is the old link. It should work now. Just to be safe, here is the raw link - [Check Out the Largest Caliber Rifle Ever Produced - Business Insider](http://www.businessinsider.com/check-out-the-largest-caliber-rifle-ever-produced-2013-8) ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2013, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/largest-caliber-rifle-905-ever-produced/665220/5 "2013-08-03T03:16:58Z")
Why Santana? They needed Jerry Lee’s Great Balls of Fire goin’ in the background. I think I’d want to sight that thing in as expeditiously as possible. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2013, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/largest-caliber-rifle-905-ever-produced/665220/6 "2013-08-03T03:42:40Z")
> [@Oakminster](#): > > What the hell do you shoot with that thing? Tanks? > **[WW2 best ATR aces.](http://wio.ru/galgrnd/ww2atr.htm)** ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2013, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/largest-caliber-rifle-905-ever-produced/665220/7 "2013-08-03T05:18:06Z")
John Connor’s secret weapon against The Cyberdyne Systems Model 101 Series 800 Terminator. ---
**Author:** ![Grumman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/43a26b/32.png) [@Grumman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grumman)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2013, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/largest-caliber-rifle-905-ever-produced/665220/8 "2013-08-03T05:24:56Z")
I prefer the .906 KS-23: a shotgun with a rifled barrel, built using sawn-off anti aircraft gun barrels. ---
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2013, 6:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/largest-caliber-rifle-905-ever-produced/665220/9 "2013-08-03T06:22:55Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > [WW2 best ATR aces.](http://wio.ru/galgrnd/ww2atr.htm) Very interesting link. And from the chart linked on that page, it looks like this gun really could kill a WWII era tank. ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2013, 8:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/largest-caliber-rifle-905-ever-produced/665220/10 "2013-08-03T08:26:50Z")
[This one](http://thefiringline.com/forums/showthread.php?t=205280) was fairly badass, if it comes to that. Semi-automatic, you could get off a shot every other second. ---
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2013, 5:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/largest-caliber-rifle-905-ever-produced/665220/11 "2013-08-04T05:23:11Z")
> [@Malacandra](#): > > Semi-automatic, you could get off a shot every other second. Yeah…and if you take out a second mortgage, you could probably shoot it for a half hour or so. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2013, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/largest-caliber-rifle-905-ever-produced/665220/12 "2013-08-04T05:36:31Z")
Reloading is the only way to go. I’m not sure where you’d find a press and die for that cartridge. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Grestarian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grestarian/32/3227_2.png) [@Grestarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grestarian)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2013, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/largest-caliber-rifle-905-ever-produced/665220/13 "2013-08-05T20:24:06Z")
Inspector Callahan and I would like to find pistols in that caliber. :eek: —G! Go ahead… …make my decade! ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2013, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/largest-caliber-rifle-905-ever-produced/665220/14 "2013-08-05T20:49:48Z")
> [@Oakminster](#): > > First link didn’t work for me. Watched the video. What the hell do you shoot with that thing? Tanks? [Graboids.](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100814/?ref_=sr_1) ---
**Author:** ![deltasigma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e5b9ba/32.png) [@deltasigma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/deltasigma)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2013, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/largest-caliber-rifle-905-ever-produced/665220/15 "2013-08-05T21:19:09Z")
> [@Ethilrist](#): > > [Graboids.](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100814/?ref_=sr_1) Oh my - perfect application. :eek: 🆒 I really like that [series](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tremors_(TV_series)) too (probably shouldn’t admit that)