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Old 03-23-2009, 04:06 PM
BLACKHAWKNJ BLACKHAWKNJ is offline
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IIRC both the Japanese and the Italians found that their 6.5MM cartridges lacked range and long range penetration and in the 1890s the US found the 6MM Lee Navy deficient in those respects. It seems to me the 7MM Mauser is the smallest diameter military round that has that elusive quality of enough versatility to be used as an all purpose round. In Vietnam it often seemed that much if not most of the infantry fighting was done by machine gunners and I recall repeated attempts to build a 5.56 MG have foundered on that round's shortcomings.
I read a book about the 22 killers in Ohio-"Unveiling Claudia" I think it was called. They were shooting people at point blank range.
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