I am a former US Marine and these photos interest me. The M-16 shoots a little .226 bullet, tiny by bullet standards. The thing is the M-16 gets that tiny bullet going really really fast. It can go really far and when it enters a target the bullet just tumbles all around. These bullets you show are the other end of the range. Some look to be about 4 times the width of a .226, and I'm pretty sure they where slow when fired. But if you were hit by one of these you were pretty sure to lose a limb. Which is better, the super fast and tiny .226 or the big bullets of days gone by? With am M-16 I hit a dinner plate sized target 10 out of 10 times from 800 meters. 800 meters is 875 yards, or a half mile. Like the AT&T commercial used to sing to us; "Reach out, reach out and touch someone" - I'd rather be 800 meters away from my target. Or better yet, use a real sniper rifle that has an effective range 3,000 yards which is 1 3/4 miles.
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I am a former US Marine and these photos interest me. The M-16 shoots a little .226 bullet, tiny by bullet standards. The thing is the M-16 gets that tiny bullet going really really fast. It can go really far and when it enters a target the bullet just tumbles all around.
These bullets you show are the other end of the range. Some look to be about 4 times the width of a .226, and I'm pretty sure they where slow when fired. But if you were hit by one of these you were pretty sure to lose a limb.
Which is better, the super fast and tiny .226 or the big bullets of days gone by? With am M-16 I hit a dinner plate sized target 10 out of 10 times from 800 meters. 800 meters is 875 yards, or a half mile.
Like the AT&T commercial used to sing to us; "Reach out, reach out and touch someone" - I'd rather be 800 meters away from my target.
Or better yet, use a real sniper rifle that has an effective range 3,000 yards which is 1 3/4 miles.
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