Looking Beyond the M4 Carbine

Sigforum ^ | November 15, 2008 | Matthew Cox

[mad_as_he$$]

FMJ or hunting bullet?

[Atlas Sneezed]

When you shoot someone with a 7.62 mm, you kill him and just take one guy out.

When you shoot someone with a 5.56 mm, you wound him and take three guys out, the guy wounded, the medic treating him, and the guy who has to carry him off the battlefield

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And when you and your enemy are 300-500 yards apart, you have a 5.56, and he has a 308, you shoot at each other until he kills you.

[redgolum]

They make short barreled M14s.
And yes, they are VERY popular in Iraq. Nothing says stop like a .308. Plants the bad guys much better than the .223

[redgolum]

Caseless ammo was a dead end. To dirty, to expensive, and if I remember right there were some problems in the operation of the firearms.

Still, it is an interesting concept.

[Ol' Dan Tucker]

That’s looks like 5.56 NATO, not .22 to me.

Thanks.