On Sat, 31 May 2008 20:10:18 -0500, "Dave in Houston"
wrote:


"mac davis" wrote in message
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On Sat, 31 May 2008 01:06:05 -0600, Just Wondering
wrote:

I want one!

Probably works better than the one's the Army tried to use in the 60's,
too..

Soldiers are complaining about the current M855 round not having enough
[kick] ass. There was an AP article in the Houston Chronicle today saying
that soldiers say the round is not heavy enough for the close-in type of
fighting that is the norm in Iraq and Afghanistan and does not stop an enemy
combatant quick enough. What do you expect from a 69 grain .22 caliber
bullet?

Dave in Houston

Yep.. I was in the Army when they took away our m-14's (7.62 mm?) and gave us
the plastic toys..
When they didn't jam, they sprayed rounds everywhere and were very prone to
deflection...
The m-60 MG became the workhorse, because it used the same round as the m-14..

In the book Black Hawk Down, they talked a lot about the LAR or something like
that, maybe that's the M855? Up against the AK-47, it just didn't have the
punch and the m-60's kept a lot of our people alive..

My kid says that the LAR or whatever is a light MG that was supposed to replace
the m-60, so they could have a universal round, but it just doesn't have the
stopping power of a larger, heavier round..


mac

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