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6/16/2013 11:32:21 PM
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Impressive.
I may try those the next time I get asked to assist a farmer with their varmits.
Frangibles are a good idea for that use. If you miss, the bullet breaks apart rather than ricochet and end up where you didn't intend it to go. The energy transfer, especially in a hyper-velocity round like .223/5.56 looks like it it almost 100%.
Clean, quick kills. No wounding, maiming, or suffering.
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At least that's true, it's like this other gadget i saw on Cracked that's specifically designed to decapitate a Turkey, just gets shot, slices it's head clean off in under a second, and it's over. At least there's no way it even suffered or got maimed before it was killed...
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I suspect that it would be very effective on feral hogs as well. Though with a frangible, using a tin composite, that would mean no BBQ. I'd also be curious as to how little it penetrates solids. In theory, it would make a very effective home defense round as well. If it breaks apart on impact (if a grape is enough to cause fragmentation) then it wouldn't penetrate more than a single layer of drywall (for example).
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'snot rated for the FBI/NIJ minimum standard of 12" of penetration to go through bones and muscles and most frangibles reach around 8", or substandard. further more, for 5.56x45mm 77 grain Mk 262/OTMs and the right gas/barrel setup is supposedly one of the least overpenetrative setups you can run in a carbine. typically the AR-15 is actually the system with the most pros and least cons when considering HD, but that of course is different for every person. handguns are small/small controls(when gross motor skills overtake fine motors skills), have one contact point, overpenetrate and are harder to use in stressful situations. they're also easier to be disarmed with. shotguns are heavy/bulky, and pack a lot of recoil. they've very long and easy for someone to grab and all universally accepted as effective loads OP, and they're not typically as easy to aim. nothing will not overpenetrate, because anything with enough power to reliably stop a threat in one shot is going to over penetrate a bit, it's just physics.
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Yeah hogs were mentioned somewhere in the article i got this from. Yup ha. It shouldn't i've heard, i'm no gun expert but as soon as it hits it's first target, the round shatters and the fragmentation happens. So if it hits a chair, the shards break off around that small area where it hit. The bullet wouldn't ricochet either, so it should work very well for home defense. The problem though is that hollowpoints are known as "Cop-killers" for a reason, whatever it hits it has a very great chance of killing, even with body armor. It would be safer to not use them at home in-case you end up killing someone and you're not in a state with a "Make my Day" law.
