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To: Travis McGee
...flesh is one thing..and it seems the hollow cavity Russian design certainly is effective at that...but does it sacrifice deep, linear penetration through greater resistance ? I suspect it does. Apples or oranges, but not both...with this tiny caliber.

Also...wind drift makes the 5.56mm shall we say "problematical" at longer ranges...so even hitting that helmet would be unlikely...which is where spray and pray magazine capacity is supposed to come in..??? Like the 9mm...you may NEED those "extra" rounds...when he keeps coming...
539 posted on 02/15/2004 10:19:14 PM PST by PoorMuttly ("You cannot be a victim AND a hero." - Hon. Clarence Thomas)
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To: Squantos; archy; PoorMuttly
The Russian ammo, in both 5.45 and 7.62X54 sniper grade, has a steel penetrator tip at the front of the lead "driver." On impact the driver moves forward within the bullet, upsetting the center of balancing and causing the slug to flip end for end. But before it flips, the steel penetrator tip slices through the enemy's helmet or vest. That's the theory. The Russians stand by it. The Afghans called the new slugs "poison bullets" when they were introduced in the then-new AK-74s.


One funny story. We have an Accuracy Int'l (British) sniper rifle in our booth, showing off our AI version butt monopod. (Accu-Shot) I was talking to a British gent about 60 years old for a half hour about everything under the sun: my book, rifles, etc. At the end he gave me a card. "Technical Director, AI." He was the designer and lead engineer for their rifles for the last 25 years! The inventor of the world's best sniper rifle! And here I was shooting the breeze with him. I mentioned that my book was similar to the Brit novelist Gerald Seymour's superb military/espionage thrillers. He said he had to take an older AI rifle (LR-96?) down to London for photos for the cover of one of Seymour's books, "At Close Quarters." That's the one where the good guy does a sniper mission against a terrorist in the Bekaa Valley. I'm looking at my copy now, and there on the cover is that exotic looking AI rifle, wth the green stock. And there I was at the SHOT Show, talking about books and guns with the AI's inventor. How about THAT!

540 posted on 02/15/2004 10:36:40 PM PST by Travis McGee (----- www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com -----)
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