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From: plains!umn-cs!LOCAL!wytten@uunet.UU.NET (Dale Wyttenbach)
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Subject: Re: .223 to little for deer, but big enough for people?
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Date: 18 Apr 91 11:32:36 GMT
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In <544@erb1.engr.wisc.edu> tas@sat.datapoint.com (Tom Stewart) writes:
>If anyone would care to express an educated (or not so educated)
>opinion on why 55-65 gr. bullets work on people but not whitetails
>I'd appreciate it.

I think it's because the ballistics of a 5.56mm M-16 round and a
.223 cal are different...the M-16 round is specially designed to
tumble and roll on impact, wreaking havoc on flesh.  

Folklore says that when the 5.56mm rounds don't tumble, the M-16 has
very little stopping power compared to the Soviet AK-47, which fires a
7.62mm round.  Incidentally, the U.S. M-60 machine gun (Rambo fired
one from the hip, you remember :-) also uses a 7.62mm round, but I
think it's backed with a lot more powder.

dale
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