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Message no. 1
From: shadowrn@*********.com (Danyeal De La Luna)
Subject: why calibers work (was speaking of ballistics)
Date: Mon Apr 22 17:00:03 2002
>It's .223 Remington actually, which became 5.56x45 NATO after its adoption
>by the organization.

actually...the .223 and the 5.56 are two totally different rounds. The m-16
was just changed to 5.56 when they realized that the .223 wasn't stopping
the bad guys.

Lunatec
Message no. 2
From: shadowrn@*********.com (Daniel Powell)
Subject: why calibers work (was speaking of ballistics)
Date: Mon Apr 22 17:05:01 2002
Not that it matters, but my .223 is a Ruger and is also known as the
mini-14. I don't know if that complicates the discussion or clears things
up.

Daniel


>From: "Danyeal De La Luna" <Ahz@*****.com>
>Reply-To: shadowrn@*********.com
>To: <shadowrn@*********.com>
>Subject: RE: why calibers work (was speaking of ballistics)
>Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2002 16:07:20 -0700
>
> >It's .223 Remington actually, which became 5.56x45 NATO after its
>adoption
> >by the organization.
>
>actually...the .223 and the 5.56 are two totally different rounds. The m-16
>was just changed to 5.56 when they realized that the .223 wasn't stopping
>the bad guys.
>
>Lunatec
>
>
>


Daniel Powell
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Message no. 3
From: shadowrn@*********.com (Danyeal De La Luna)
Subject: why calibers work (was speaking of ballistics)
Date: Mon Apr 22 18:45:01 2002
On 4/22/02 6:07 PM, "Danyeal De La Luna" <Ahz@*****.com> wrote:

>> It's .223 Remington actually, which became 5.56x45 NATO after its adoption
>> by the organization.
>
> actually...the .223 and the 5.56 are two totally different rounds. The m-16
> was just changed to 5.56 when they realized that the .223 wasn't stopping
> the bad guys.
>
> Lunatec
>
>
>
Oops...I just looked up the info on what I had said earlier. I was
wrong...the .223 and the 5.56 are the same round (basically). They have the
same diameter but the difference that I was mentioning was only that the
5.56mm round is is now the same as the round fired out of the SAW (Squad
Automatic Weapon). So, I thought that I would share in my ignorance.

A link about this can be found at
http://www.hqmc.usmc.mil/factfile.nsf/7e931335d515626a8525628100676e0c/6a601
72b3db3d5ce8525627b0062d928?OpenDocument

When I'm wrong, I'm wrong

Lunatec

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