Sniper May be Using These: "Silent Cartridges" of USSR & Russia

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[icantbleaveit]

Ex-TopSecret "Silent Cartridges" of USSR & Russia.

They have no give-away muzzle flash when fired - and there is no recoil. The bullets are designed to be used in rifles CIA armourers have developed. They have twice the range of ordinary sniper weapons and a killing accuracy of a mile.

http://www.world.guns.ru/ammo/sp-e.htm

[nightdriver]

"I was following on from your The ruskies are well noted for pulling fast ones like this."

OK. You got me.

[SauronOfMordor]

The recoil from a .223/5.56mm NATO round is negligible. A little girl could shoot one all day and never complain about the recoil.

I let my 13-year-old daughter shoot my AR-15 at CMP matches, and she has no recoil complaints. (She gets pretty good hits, too)

[M. T. Cicero II]

Off the topic...When shooting skeet at O degrees F (or below), under the lights, you can see the shot string as a "line" going out to the clay. Very nice!

[M. T. Cicero II]

I wrote some words on this thread about the sound of the shot being fired. After reading more posts on this subject, I think that the volume is very subjective. After firing .44 Mag from a 6" barelled handgun for about an hour, .223 rifle just doesn't seem real loud. But as I said, that first .223 shot at 6:00 AM, in the woods, in November is a real waker-upper!

[B4Ranch]

http://guns.connect.fi/gow/arcane1.html

Sub-sonic is approx. below 900fps.

[Falcon4.0]

It is not the propellent in the cartridge that causes the report. Rather it is the escaping gas at the muzzle. And the very existence of Red Mercury is debatable.

[Enterprise]

Yeah, there you go, making me feel like yelling "Doh." I'm not an engineer of course, but I should have smelled something rotten. Thank you.