Gonna assume you've seen the movie Shooter. (book's even better)
How accurate do you think some of the big gun stuff in that flick was?
and more importantly....
Just how much would a Pepsi bottle silence a long range gun like that?
Never saw the movie.
I was sniper qualified in the Army (SOTIC). Most movie shit with guns is wildly off base imo.
A pepsi bottle on a Barret 50 BMG? Wouldn’t do it. You cannot imagine the energy that thing puts out. I would be concerned for the plastic bottle fragmenting and the high speed debris it would create.
There were guys standing 15-20’ to the side of the rifle at about a 20-30 degree angle. It would actually knock their hats off, move their clothing. They said it felt like a punch to the chest.
Shooting it is a bit better. Still rattles your teeth and blurs your vision for a split second.
The unfired round is longer than your hand.
This isn’t really a good long range anti-personell shooter. It has the power but not the accuracy. For long range I would use .308, .338 Lapua, or similar loads and a sub-moa rifle.
The Barrett at best is a 3-4 moa shooter. So 3-4“ groupings at 100 yards. 6-8” at 200 yards. 9-12” at 300 yards. So for anti-personell I wouldn’t want to shoot more than 250 yards.
It only goes downhill from there if you have shitty loads or do not have the skill to use it.
This is a great anti-material rifle. At 1000 yards it will shoot 30-40”… which is plenty of accuracy if you are shooting a light armored vehicle, artillery piece, vehicle.
Libtard skull is two inches thick and has taken repeated rounds at 10 yards from a 30.06 without even chipping . See extended jaw and giant ceramic tile sized teeth below . 
