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I heard that bear was a friend of Cecil the lion.
Guess that’s why Dirty Harry could only afford to use it for just a few scenes in Sudden Impact.
One of the things that this article skips is the reason why the M14 (and it’s cartridge) was replaced.
One of the key factors, like it or not, was that the government discovered that the M14 was too heavy and too powerful for most service members to reliably put follow-up shots on target rapidly (to be fair in the government lit that I’ve seen they never really define how rapidly they wanted that to happen) in the firefights/ranges they were seeing.
Those “lessons”, by and large, came from Korea, not from Vietnam. This is obvious since the Korean War was 1950-53 with the first advisers placed in Vietnam around 1955 while the while Stoner and Sullivan designed the M16 style rifle in 1956 with the rifle entering service about 10 years later. The SCHV program that developed 5.56 from the .222 started in 1957. At that point in time there is no way that the US had enough data on jungle warfare or the firing of the M14 in Vietnam to have made such a decision based on that data and, in fact, the decision to make a switch based on the inability of soldiers to make rapid follow-up shots had been made before we even had a significant number of advisers in Vietnam. They knew they had a problem as early as 1953/4, which is before Vietnam even started.
Long story short, it’s a question of balancing capabilities in term of penetration (The CONARC/SCHV program demanded full penetration of .135″ steel plate at 500 yards for a round to be deemed “acceptable”.), ammo weight, ballistics and what your average military trained shooter can actually do with the round in terms of putting multiple rounds on target in a reasonable amount of time. 5.56 meets the minimum requirements across the board where other rounds have failed in certain regards.
Could a new round replace the 5.56 cartridge? Sure, others have pointed out that it’s possible. It is however, as most of those same posters have noted, unlikely due to cost and the unnecessary nature of fixing something that isn’t really viewed as broken by the DoD.
This could save lives!
Unless you’re a Russian hunter and you deactivate it move the grip to firing position, chamber a round, flip off the thumb safety, put the butt on the ground and lean it up against your knees with the barrel pointed at your belly.
In that case, it may not save a life.
The guy on the right is like “Yassir, das a big’un. Das why I became a cop, dis good. Two hunnit dollahs, ah’m makin a diffince inna world!”
Bear spray, just like human spray, is literally hot sauce with a binding agent. It’s susceptible to wind, and has been noted to fail on more than once occasion. Particularly that recent one noted here on TTAG where the guy used it, and ended up being covered in it more than the bear, and had to use a .300 win mag, and multiple shots to put the beast down. Bear spray is advocated by anti gun and animal rights activists who’s main concern is the bear walking away unscathed, not you. I personally have been sprayed in the face, on more than one occasion, by pepper spray. IF, it gets in your eyes, yes, it “can” take the fight out of you. It does hurt like hell. But, it’s not something to count on. It’s merely a weapon of distraction. When you want to STOP a lethal threat, you use the best tool humanity has invented to stop that threat, that’s a gun.
That’s really cool.
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