{"id":29996,"date":"2020-02-13T03:15:45","date_gmt":"2020-02-13T03:15:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=29996"},"modified":"2020-02-13T03:15:47","modified_gmt":"2020-02-13T03:15:47","slug":"raufuss-mk-211","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=29996","title":{"rendered":"Raufuss Mk 211"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:5159,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/guns.fandom.com\\\/wiki\\\/Raufoss_Mk_211&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260116170332\\\/https:\\\/\\\/guns.fandom.com\\\/wiki\\\/Raufoss_Mk_211&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-17 05:48:23&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-20 23:07:48&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-24 17:57:48&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403}],&quot;broken&quot;:true,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-24 17:57:48&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:5160,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/en.wikipedia.org\\\/wiki\\\/Stephen_Hunter&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:5161,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/amzn.to\\\/38q3GTJ&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.amazon.com\\\/Night-Thunder-Bob-Swagger-Novel\\\/dp\\\/1416565116\\\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?_encoding=UTF8&amp;qid=&amp;sr=&amp;linkCode=sl1&amp;tag=nolaonguanmo-20&amp;linkId=a13ecadcf103f196c5fe9087b9a68aaf&amp;language=en_US&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:5162,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.battleswarmblog.com\\\/?p=43462&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>I first learned about the <a href=\"https:\/\/guns.fandom.com\/wiki\/Raufoss_Mk_211\" class=\"rank-math-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Raufuss Mk 211 .50 BMG<\/a> cartridge in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Stephen_Hunter\" class=\"rank-math-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Stephen Hunter&#8217;<\/a>s <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/38q3GTJ\" class=\"rank-math-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Night of Thunder<\/a>. The book starts out with Bob Lee Swagger&#8217;s daughter Nikki pondering the meaning of a scrap of paper with the markings &#8220;k 2:11&#8221;. She is 24 and a new crime reporter for the Bristol TN\/VA Courier-Herald. She had stumbled across it while on a story about meth. Unfortunately, it marked her as an assassin&#8217;s target as she was thought to know too much.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/?p=43462\" class=\"rank-math-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lawrence Person just did an interesting post about this round at his BattleSwarm blog.<\/a> He has assembled a series of videos showing just what the Raufuss Mk 211 will do to cars, engine blocks, glass, and ballistic gelatin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He notes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>What happens when this round reaches out and touches something?<\/p><p>Bad things for the recipient. Let\u2019s take a look.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is worth a look.<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I first learned about the Raufuss Mk 211 .50 BMG cartridge in Stephen Hunter&#8217;s Night of Thunder. The book&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[252,253,5085,5086,3574],"class_list":["post-29996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-battleswarm-blog","tag-lawrence-person","tag-night-of-thunder","tag-raufuss-mk-211-50-bmg","tag-stephen-hunter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29996"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29997,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29996\/revisions\/29997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}