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Originally Posted by marathonrunner
Hey Guys, please read the following article. It pretty much states the 5.56 is basically a worthless round that is a poor shooting platform for stopping the bad guy. It sites many examples of soldiers in battle who had to shoot the bad guy 5 sometimes 6 times before they would go down. Maybe I should have went with .308 for SHTF but this article really concerns me.
How about 5.56 HP or SP? Would that make it close to a .308?
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It's true. Plenty of times soldiers had to shoot 5 or 6 times to kill a bad guy. However, plenty of people have been shot just as much by bigger and badder rounds and lived to tell. There are also plenty of stories from the current war where bad guys took more than one shot from a 50BMG before they laid down and died.
HP is much better but 556 isn't exactly a wimp of a round
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