Umm... welcome to FR?
Got my popcorn for this thread.
Thinking about getting a .308 for a boat gun, though, to replace the mini.
I don't like the .223. I only have five of them.
I like the 30-06. I only have 6 of them.
What type? Tresspass here and find out.
The 223 M16 variant which marine snipers use with a 1/8 twist and 80 grain bullets is more than enough to kill anything short of elk and bears at normal ranges. My choice for a modern military rifle would likely favor the 6.5 Grendel cartridge over the 308. The Grendel is big enough to kill nearly anything, is still supersonic at 1200 yards, and is supremely accurate. 308 Bullets on the other hand have to be 165 grains before they can get to 1000 yards and still be supersonic. The standard 147 gr NATO stuff won't cut it.
Welcome to Free Republic.
works really well if you hit what your aiming at.
NO! We need the server or the whole network is down!
AK-47 = junk.
Don't tell anyone hit by a 5.56 that it is a pipsqueek.
M1/M14 about the best main battle rifles ever.
7MM rules.
Not possible this cheap. Maybe $190.
The debate over the 5.56mm cartridge's effectiveness as a miltary round has only been raging since the M-16 was introduced back in the 60's. If the MSM ever bothered to address that debate, it was just to sneer at the debaters as "right-wing gun nuts."
Until now, that is. Why is that so? It couldn't be because all the other "concerns" the left has mouthed about our troops (body armor, armored Humvees, etc.) have failed in their objective to take down Donald Rumsfeld and George Bush, so now it's time to move on to the next thing that might do the trick, could it?