superdave wrote:from the movies again: The hero is almost always shot in the shoulder. Never has his jaw blown off or is shot in the foot or the spine or the butt, never has to live in a wheelchair afterwards.
RoginaJack wrote:This goes back many years to when the Armed services adopted the then new 5.56mm to replace the 7.62 NATO round.
A reporter in a leading Sydney newspaper wrote up the new round as "high powered", "devastating wounds due to the high velocity" and could "blow of a mans arm with one shot"...etc.
He claimed that this was possible due to the fact that "the bullet tumbled in flight thus causing etc....
Think about that and what has changed with reporters writing on this subject - SFA
Cheers
I had the newspaper clipping but can't find it. Must be filed in a safe place...
<<Genesis93>> wrote:eye fink the 'tumbling' is supposed to be post-impact
3) The 173 grain M118 round jacketing was found to explode on impact. All fragments of the exploding rounds followed an erratic path in both height and width. Each of the main cores began to tumble about two feet from initial impact.
RoginaJack wrote:One point I'll make about the 7.62 out of the SLR, it blew a 30cal hole in things and hit like a ton of bricks.
I've just don't get it with the 5.56, firing it out of a 12.5" or 14.5" barrels, after all, it's a high velocity round and just doesn't reach it's full potential (IMO) from short stuff. Might explain why the powers to be are looking at 7.62 slugs out of 5.56 cases. Why not a 7mm/223 brass?
cheers,
superdave wrote:from the movies again: The hero is almost always shot in the shoulder. Never has his jaw blown off or is shot in the foot or the spine or the butt, never has to live in a wheelchair afterwards.
brett1868 wrote:superdave wrote:from the movies again: The hero is almost always shot in the shoulder. Never has his jaw blown off or is shot in the foot or the spine or the butt, never has to live in a wheelchair afterwards.
Forrest Gump....Shot in the buttocks
How is it that in movies the good guys can head shoot @ 50m with a snub nose revolver (Lethal Weapon) then in the next scene can't hit jack s**t with 6 rounds?
bigfellascott wrote:brett1868 wrote:superdave wrote:from the movies again: The hero is almost always shot in the shoulder. Never has his jaw blown off or is shot in the foot or the spine or the butt, never has to live in a wheelchair afterwards.
Forrest Gump....Shot in the buttocks
How is it that in movies the good guys can head shoot @ 50m with a snub nose revolver (Lethal Weapon) then in the next scene can't hit jack s**t with 6 rounds?
I love the scenes where full automatic rifles are used and they can't hit s**t, them some one lets a shot off with a handgun and never misses