What AR15 barrel length is the most relevant.

Selected a barrel length based on the question in the OP.

  • 10.5" - 11.5"

    Votes: 36 9.3%
  • 14.5"

    Votes: 123 31.8%
  • 16"

    Votes: 164 42.4%
  • 20"

    Votes: 64 16.5%

  • Total voters
    387
Standard SS109 = approx. 1300 ft-pounds at pistol range.

If 1300 ft-lbs is not enough, how much more do you need, and what Glock delivers substantially more than that?

My nuclear strength, way overpressure 10mm loads in my G20 are not much more than half that...I can probably manage 750-800 foot pounds if I don't mind ruining the brass in one shot.

I am trying to think which Glock is twice as powerful as a brutally overpressured G20?

Do they make one in 7.62 NATO maybe?
 
Ditto. I like the ar family for it's accuracy, it lacks punch already, I don't want to give it any less! Up close, give me a 12 ga. or glock.:p

I dunno man. 55 grains of lead @ roughly 3000 FPS tearing through your organs with tremendous supersonic forces at work... I'd be keen to take a knee if something like that happened to me. :runaway:

Yet again people have been telling me that I'm too moderate. :nest:
 
I dunno man. 55 grains of lead @ roughly 3000 FPS tearing through your organs with tremendous supersonic forces at work... I'd be keen to take a knee if something like that happened to me. :runaway:

Yet again people have been telling me that I'm too moderate. :nest:
5.56 rds will drop a person regardless. Granted it doesn't have the best stopping power, unless using 80+ grain, it actually can do a hell of a lot more damage to a human than more heavier calibers. Since those kind of calibers, like 7.62, have greater mass-momentum they usually will past right through your body making a clean wound. 5.56 on the other hand will actually shatter or fragment inside your body creating numerous other wounds. Even more chaotic, I remember this one instance where a round partitioned and ricochetted off a bone in one individual's body and one fragment of it past out of his body and shot into the body of his buddy running right beside him. One died, one lived but was outta the fight. Talk about hitting two "birds" with one "stone".

The funny thing about 5.56 is that UN/NATO justify it as a "humitarian" caliber, due to the fact it causes more casualty than death. Sure, if you consider a mangled mess of guts "humitarian".
 
I propose that 5440 flight should experiment himself - left leg with a 5.56, right leg with a 9mm.....take pictures and tell us which one hurts more.
 
I can imagine it now.

Taliban#1
Quick!Attack those Canadians over there Achmed!

Taliban #2
Ok Habib.I'm shooting but missing a lot.

Taliban #1
Oh crap now you've done it.They've seen us.

Taliban#2
Yeah we're in for it!
I'm hit!...... but its ok it was only a 55 grainer!

Taliban #1
Thank Alah it wasn't a 77 grainer or a 9mm.Keep firing Achmed,keep firing!
 
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