Originally posted by lasersailor184
Tumbles? No. It fragments upon contact with human flesh. It sort of does a buck shot type thing in human flesh.
The problem is that this does wound, it does not incapacitate. You don't care if a bullet tickles another man into incapacitation, if he's not firing back at you, or not capable of firing back at you, you are happy.
It's embarrassing that we sent soldiers into battle with sub par weapons, and sub par ammo that couldn't even drop a stereotypical tiny vietnamese man.
Only now, some 50 odd years after it was put in place does it begin to equal the quality of weapon that it replaced.
Want me to go on Mash? Because I can go on for pages how a simple little army field trial as to the effectiveness of lighter smaller ammo vs. the larger .308 can directly be attributed to the deaths of thousands of american soldiers in vietnam. Or would that ruin your perfect little world?
The buckshot thing seems strange, as when I was in the Air Force, one
of our brainier security police cleared his weapon in the wrong order and
managed to jack a round into the chamber.
He then fired it right through the sand filled barrel, making a nice neat
22 caliber hole through top and bottom of the clearing barrel. No fragments
just nice neat holes..admittedly at as close a range as you can get.
Also we lost 50,000 folks in the Vietnam War..exactly how many of those
were attributed to firing a non-308 round? What about using 750 lb bombs
rather than 1000 lbers? Curious how a field trial would be able to quantify
causes of death from a conflict that raged for over a decade on land, sea
and air though.
