RE: [SG] Shotguns

At 11:26 AM -0700 2/14/03, B Lin wrote:
>
>Has anyone seen the SLAP round for the .50 Barrett?  I saw a Marine 
>Sniper School training video once and they demonstrated the SLAP 
>round - at 100m it went though both sides (front and back) of a 
>commercial safe.  Don't think you can armor a guy enough to stop 
>that kind of penetration.

SLAP is great, but I've heard the sabots hang up on the muzzle brake 
on the end of the sniper rifles every so often. Not a good thing to 
have happen.
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