Re: [HoE] Some Thoughts on Ammo

[DarrinBrig@aol.com]

In a message dated 9/15/98 10:01:12 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
darious@darious.com writes:

> Not true - I regularly hit a man sized silhouette at 300 yards (not often
>  enough, but regularly) with an M-16A2.

Now there's a cool idea for an abomination... man-sized paper sillouettes!  

Ok, I can see using an M-16 out to about 300 yards, but when you're firing at
a moving target in cover, do you really expect to hit anything.  I've been
told that in Vietnam, most soldiers had to expend upwards of 100 bullets to
have any chance of hitting anything.
  
>  One primary difference between the AK-47 and the M16 is that the M16's 5.56
>  round is a tumbler.  That means that instead of hitting you and going
>  through, the 5.56 will spin in your body, theoretically creating a higher
>  chance of wounding instead of killing a man.

True, but wasn't that just a side-effect of a lousy bullet?  Tumbling rounds
sacrifice accuracy for damage.  I wonder if the AK-47s are any more
accurate... though my understanding is the craftsmanship is usually pretty
shoddy.