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Theres a difference between an AR10 and a SR25.

But there were lots of Armalite 7.62 rifles available a while ago through CDN dealers.
I think the point is that we cant get Knights rifles up here. Probably because they are US military grade and have a NSN number ....

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koalorka said:
That's why it's worth going prone, your crosshair shrinks so you can aim more accurately to ensure a clean headshot.
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LOL... wow. That sure gets the "Bulls**t Of The Day" award. Did you perhaps mean to post that on the Counter-Strike message board? J/K

DATAM said:
You can actually kill a person near someone shot by a .50, just from bone fragments. They tend to disintigrate the bones, and turn them into shrapnel like splinters deadly at short range
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Dunno 'bout killing an adjacent person by a 12.7mm turning a victim's bones to shrapnel, however I have seen fifty cal rounds halve and disassemble targets bodies. Not a pretty sight.

25mm and 30mm on the other hand... s**t. The round only needs to pass by a person to kill them. The vortex/swirl alone is so powerful it'll tear your skin to shreds.
 
Demon971 said:
25mm and 30mm on the other hand... s**t. The round only needs to pass by a person to kill them. The vortex/swirl alone is so powerful it'll tear your skin to shreds.
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Heard the same thing about 50 rounds. A simple test to see if its true about the 25mm and 30mm would be to put up a piece of cardboard with a paper target stapled on. If the paper doesnt rip off and sucked into the hole with the round.


Myth busted.
 
DATAM said:
at least they used a decent calibre 7.62 is a reliable killer. The only way a 223 would do the job is with a head shot.
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Actually the HK 416 is a 5.56 weapon. 100 feet doesn't sound like a shot from a fantail, especially at night in choppy seas - even if it was Easter Sunday ;) Makes you think the Easter Bunny can swim.
 
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People talk about short range shots all the time, but the circumstances, and shooting at a real target often make those the hardest. The TV special(history?) mentioned that they needed one shot from each shooter on each pirate from a pitching fantail to a pitching boat. All this after being in position for who knows how long waiting for the shot to be cleared.

2 posts in a row. Does that bring us back to reality yet or are we still in airsoft/videogame lala land?
 
ian_in_vic said:
Actually the HK 416 is a 5.56 weapon. 100 feet doesn't sound like a shot from a fantail, especially at night in choppy seas - even if it was Easter Sunday ;) Makes you think the Easter Bunny can swim.
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The Easter Bunny Lives !!!!

Some details on the shot from the press ... fantail yes, gulf of Aden yes, regardless its GOOD SHOOTING!!! and the added variables of the marine environment make it even more impressive.
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I believe in the modified M4 carbine in 5.56NATO :)
 
I can't imagine which would be "easier (????)" shooting off a fantail, in bad seas into a target bobbing like a cork, at night - or swimming in and popping up, acquiring a target on a boat that's bobbing like a cork, at night, in bad seas. I have enough difficulty shooting off a bench, in daylight, with nothing riding on it, nowhere near the sea. :D
 
View from the armchair

They got towed in to 100ft - as that was the most stable position for the boat in the ships wake. Thus there was virtually no movement

The Ship had a whole ####load of IR lights.

Yes the Hk416 that was used is 5.56mm, and using the 70gr BlackHills Optimized "BrownTip" 5.56mm

When shooting in NVG's with IR lasers - its not a crosshair, its a dot (or blob) ths the shooters where free to adopt the most stable position for the shooting.
 
Thanks for clearing that up - laid out like that it does make sense, like I said I have enough trouble off the bench shooting for beers, without mounting the bench on a ship and shooting for real.
 
I still don't see the signficance of any of this. So they shot up a boat full of armed peasants from a destroyer 30 m away.. How is that in any way special? Plus they're sailors:

 
Put a couple of those guns aboard my ship and you would not have had to send a F**king warship in the first place. Remember the good old days when you just kicked them overboard and hosed the blood off? No telex messages to the IMO or log entries?

We progress in time and technology but with little wisdom
 
Oh how about this ### navy idea

Manufacture 500 solar powered Unmanned Waterbourne Vehicles (UWV's) equipped with Vulcan cannons and top of the line navigation systems that hunt poor, poor Somalians day and night.

It would be like a video game. Just hunt down some Somalians, zoom in on them from your cozy computer base in the States, like a Predator UAV, and shred them with hellfires and Vulcans.

The Somalians will be saying..."thats a damn minigu..."

JUST...LIKE...Counterstrike.
 
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