{"id":98911,"date":"2026-03-28T02:00:19","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T06:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=98911"},"modified":"2026-03-28T08:13:22","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T12:13:22","slug":"ak50-how-hard-could-it-be-brandon-herreras-10-year-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2026\/03\/28\/ak50-how-hard-could-it-be-brandon-herreras-10-year-project\/","title":{"rendered":"AK50: How Hard Could it Be? Brandon Herrera&#8217;s 10-Year Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"854\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YagIIpex8Is?si=aeaQffbRCt5mV1ff\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Forgotten Weapons<\/strong><br \/>\nPublished 5 Nov 2025<\/p>\n<p>Scaling the AK up to .50 BMG &#8230; how hard could it be? Today we find out, with a detailed look at all three iterations of Brandon Herrera&#8217;s AK-50 project.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The best firearms reference books: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.headstamppublishing.com\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.headstamppublishing.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/redirect?event=video_description&#038;redir_token=QUFFLUhqbUJFVXJITWYzcVNwOFF3OXJCNEQ3bDZsM0xzQXxBQ3Jtc0tseHV4OXp3NjBEbEk1T04xN1k5RHV1S0wyaUlXaUt5eERYQzdCT3Q3YTVjaE1wQXRGQW0tZkRDUWZoRHF5dmxKZWJfTDdXT3pRTmxmWFllYkRZalBWX2NVc0xOZGZrY3V2ZHpNT2tkSENtV3JUWXBtbw&#038;q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.floatplane.com%2Fchannel%2FForgottenWeapons&#038;v=YagIIpex8Is\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.floatplane.com\/channel\/For&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cool Forgotten Weapons merch! <a href=\"http:\/\/shop.forgottenweapons.com\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/shop.forgottenweapons.com<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forgotten Weapons Published 5 Nov 2025 Scaling the AK up to .50 BMG &#8230; how hard could it be? Today we find out, with a detailed look at all three iterations of Brandon Herrera&#8217;s AK-50 project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,663],"tags":[140,1366,49],"class_list":["post-98911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-usa","category-weapons","tag-design","tag-forgottenweapons","tag-guns"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-pJl","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98911"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98912,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98911\/revisions\/98912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}