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K0CQ > TECH 23.06.04 08:55l 50 Lines 2569 Bytes #999 (0) @ WW
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Subj: re: Volcano cartridge.
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Sent: 040622/1606Z @:W0AK.#CIA.IA.USA.NOAM #:18026 [Des Moines] $:18026_W0AK
From: K0CQ@W0AK.#CIA.IA.USA.NOAM
To : TECH@WW
Actually the brass can be reused many times if its not thrown away, so long as
its not rim fire. The center fire brass (and plastic shot gun shells) can be
reloaded dozens of times. Some even reshape brass to use different sized
bullets for special weapons.
When you send the propellant and container along with the bullet, you may not
have a gun but more of a rocket. That can mean more crud in the barrel needing
cleaning more often. Then when the package is outside the barrel, what does
that continued propulsion do for the accuracy of the flight? I suspect it
drastically reduces the accuracy to that of the blunderbuss or worse.
The M-16 was never as large a bore as 9 or 7.62 mm. The M-14 that was common
in the US military before the M-16 was 7.62 or .308 Winchester. The toy gun M-
16 was .223 or 5.66 mm. Much higher velocity in the M-16 than the M-14 but a
much smaller slug. It was said that a mosquito being hit by a M-16 slug would
cause the slug to tumble (it was spinning 240,000 rpm, traveling at 4000 feet
per second 1 in 12 rifling twist) and then disintegrate from centrifugal
force. The M-16 slug is copper jacketed soft point which makes it expand
rapidly in the target, the exit hole being many times larger than the entrance
hole.
I trained on the M-14 and had I gone to combat, I'd have preferred it though
probably would not have been allowed to use it. The M-14 slug had enough mass
that as it expanded in the target it should have knocked the target down
delaying return fire while the pin prick of the M-16 slug left the target
standing returning fire far too accurately. And if the mosquito deflected the
M-16 slug, twigs certainly did.
And the M-14 made a substantial (10.6 pounds) club when empty capable of doing
considerable damage. I did use it in that mode once and it was effective. The
plastic M-16 was too light for use as a club, and probably too fragile. Either
could be operated in full automatic mode with the proper accessories. With a
M-16 clip carrying 50 rounds it was sort of effective at being a machine gun.
The larger cartridge of the M-14 made repeated fire less common and carrying
50 rounds of 7.62 was a lot of work while carrying 50 rounds of M-16 was just
one clip, so the infantry man carried many more rounds of M-16 cartridges but
missed far more often so I think was less effective than with the controlled
fire from a M-14.
73, Jerry, K0CQ @ W0AK.#CIA.IA.USA
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