Chuck R.
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What's better: A .30 cal bullet with such great stability that it makes a .30 hole through a person or a .224 cal bullet that transfers all it's energy into a person by fragmenting and tumbling?
George Orwell was shot through the neck in the Spanish Civil War and went on to write Animal Farm and 1984.
The real world works differently than how people feel it should.
BSW
This is the same conclusion that some guys at Benning came to a wile ago:
Interestingly, the one 7.62mm round that received the full evaluation, the M80 fired from the M14 rifle, performed in the same band of performance, which would indicate that for M80 ammunition at least there appears to be no benefit to the larger caliber at close quarters range.
and:
Hits to the center mass of the torso may eventually cause incapacitation as the target bleeds out, but this process takes time, during which a motivated target will continue to fight. While projectile design can make a good hit more effective, a hit to a critical area is still required; this fact is borne out by the Medal of Honor citations of numerous American Soldiers who continued to fight despite being hit by German 7.92mm, Japanese 6.5mm and 7.7mm, or Chinese or Vietnamese 7.62mm rounds. A more realistic mantra might be “One well-placed shot, one-kill.”
Complete article can be found here: http://www.activeresponsetraining.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/WQV8N1_ART01.pdf
It really is worth the read.