Weapons of the World: Little Bullets (5.56) Lose Respect

6.5x55...I have a remington 700 titanium I had rebarreled in that caliber , super ultra lite, 6X fixed power glass etc ....my favorite deer rifle.

I had an old pal who had a pre-64 Winchester Model 70 that had been rebarrelled to the 6.5x52 Carcano cartridge for some interesting ammo development tests. It was a little fussy about bullet weights, but with a circa 160 grain bullet and .266"-.268" diameter bullet rather than the usual undersized .264" bullets used in Norma/Sierra 6.5mm offerings, it's a relative tackdriver, and fun to shoot all day.

Fancy meeting you here! :-) On account of all the discussion here, I got the ole reloading manual out the other day and studied ballistic coefficients, muzzle velocities, and drop tables, and then WONDERED why we ever dropped a proper .30 caliber cartridge in favor of something that you can't even legally hunt large game in most states with!

General Julian Hatcher closed his famous book (Hatchers Notebook) with a warning about adopting something like the .223 Remington as a standard service round over the .30-06 and 7.62x51 (.308 Win).

I don't think he lived long enough to see the 5.56mm adopted. I could be wrong. If he didn't, I can only imagine he rolled in his grave!

25mm. Fah! Lame excuse for a weapon.

This is from John Ringo's When The Devil Dances

MetalStorm's name said it all; each pack could throw up to twelve hundred 105mm discarding sabot rounds into the air in less than a minute. The rounds were packed "nose to tail" into twelve tubes that were both barrel and breach. The system was electrical and could fire either one round or a series at very high rates of fire. Once clear of the "barrel" the rounds, accelerated at slightly different velocities due to the nature of the system, dropped their plastic "shoes" and a sixty-millimeter dart of tungsten headed downrange at tank-killing speeds. With a hundred rounds packed into each tube, and the rounds going off at an electronically controlled sequence, the air quickly became saturated with tungsten and steel.

Now, that's FIREPOWER! Of course, these are mounted on converted M1 Abrams tanks and the folks in them say "this is gonna suck!" just before pulling the trigger. They did do a number on the bad guys, however. ;^>

Me? I have a preference for the Barrett or a match grade Springfield M1A1 (civilian M14). I also have a guilty fondness for the American 180, for those that know that little joy.

One of the kids wants to Squirrel hunt with it, so I'm going to get ALL the rust off of it and paint it camo.

Be nice to it. Have it re-blued.

The squirrels don't care if it's camo. :P

I don't have the funds right now....so I figured that getting all the rust off of it would be more or less "prepping" it for bluing. I thought about trying it myself, but I made a mess once doing the same thing. :-) Getting paint off is a LOT easier than a bad home bluing job! :-)

The M-14 biggest role was to keep Springfield, Massachussets residents employed. It was an OK rifle if all you wanted to was shoot over the course at Camp Perry. The FAL was better battle rifle. That whole generation of guns that Springfield fielded in the late fifties ranged from decidedly mediocre, like the M14 and M60 to positively putrid, like the M73. THE machingun which proved decisively that it was possible to build a more unreliable machingun than the French Chauchat!

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