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Originally Posted by LVSteve
IMHO the long range thing is a red herring. It's all about body armor penetration at any range, not hitting skinny insurgents wearing a sheet across open desert. There are some interesting videos out of the Ukraine conflict that show just how effective modern body armor has become in stopping intermediate rounds like 5.54x39, 7.62x39, and, I would guess, 5.56x45.
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When my SWCC buddy, and his battle buddy were attached to USMC patrols going outside the wire, they were sent as heavy weaponry specialists. One manned the MK19 on a hmmv turret, and the the other had a restocked and worked over M14 set up as a sniping rifle by the National Match competition teams' armorers. 5.56 was just about useless beyone 400 meters. The M2 wasn't accurate enough. But a suppressed 7.62 was just right.