RE: [sg] platoon stuff and combat engineers

At 10:27 AM -0700 6/25/02, John Leary wrote:
>--- Ryan M Gill <rmgill@mindspring.com> wrote:
>
>  I'd also
>  expect that the kind of rounds that hunters and
>>  farmers would tend to have on hand would be
>  much more geared for taking down big nasty
>>  animals vs killing a Eurie trooper.
>
>The hunting rounds would be more likely to kill/
>mame a person than military rounds.

No argument there. 45-70 is great for taking down large game. However 
it is also overkill for infantry and not optimized for taking down 
infantry. (sort of like using a Barret light 50 for ground hogs...it 
works but you don't have much ground hog left). Back in the day, 
45-70 was great for the soldiers, but it is far too heavy for what 
diggers/grunts need now or will want in the future. The ideal is for 
small compact rounds that carry sufficient energy for taking down a 
red force trooper at range who has armor. Read small fast round, 
compact case.

Big dangerous game need big massive rounds that mushroom deep into 
the target and don't crater or fragment close to the surface. They 
also don't need to deviate when they strike bone.

This all assumes that you are shooting bug nasty beasts that will 
knock you down and then stomp on you (read Cape Buffalo). If your 
farmers are shooting at small varments that make off with their 
chickens or crop they want smaller bullets pushed to extreme velocity 
with large cartridges on really flat trajectories. When you push a 
small bullet really fast, it tends to fragment when it strikes the 
target. Specialist varment bullets are made to fragment and take the 
animal out. Cratering isn't an issue here. Cratering on a big animal 
is.

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