“I’m sure you’ll be getting a lot of advice about other, bigger caliber rounds shortly.”
No pun intended, OWS, but your are right on target, advising smaller caliber rounds. On a cross-country hump, I’d rather carry 500 rounds of 5.56, than 7.62.
An AR, with a well snapped in shooter, is deadly at 1000+ yards.
At 1000 yards the 5.56mm round has about 180 ft/lbs of energy left, approximately that of a rock thrown by a girl. It also drops over 300 inches at that distance, or 25 FEET. Add in any crosswind at all and you’re talking blind luck at hitting anything.
>>“I’m sure you’ll be getting a lot of advice about other, bigger caliber rounds shortly.”
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>No pun intended, OWS, but you’re are right on target, advising smaller caliber rounds.
Well, they’re what I have experience in rifle. In handgun I like my 357 mag and my .45, though I also have a 9mm.
>On a cross-country hump, I’d rather carry 500 rounds of 5.56, than 7.62.
On a hump, yes. But it depends on the objective/use what sort of rounds are best for the job. For instance, a 40mm grenade for the M203 might be a lot nicer for oh say dropping a HE/incendiary into a weapons or fuel depot than trying to demolish it via small arms fire. {Diesel isn’t explosive like gasoline [fumes] are, giving it another advantage for use in military vehicles.}