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Goodbye .223?

ndbillyndbilly Member Posts: 1,573 ✭✭✭✭✭
edited August 2002 in General Discussion
I swear I have no interest in resurrecting the subject BUT, if the following is true, it raises a number of obvious questions, not the least of which is, "What will replace it?". Anyone else heard anything about this?

October, 2002 issue of Gun World. Page 44 begins an article on a weapon called the .50 Beowulf, basically a modified AR type. Quoting from David M. Fortier's article and referencing the Soviet 5.45x39 - "Its effectiveness in turning live mujahedin into 'good' mujahedin soon earned it the nicname of 'Poisin Bullet'...This is substantially different from our own 5.56x45 which, while extremely accurate, has performed so poorly during combat operations in Afghanistan that it MIGHT GET THE AX (emphasis added)."
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  • offerorofferor Member Posts: 8,625 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Don't hold your breath for the Army to go to an even smaller round. The only reason there is a 5.45x39 is because the Ruskies were jealous of our .223. So they scaled down some 7.62x39 models to shoot this new caliber. For us to turn around and do the same because we're jealous of their poison bullet sounds unlikely in the extreme to me. By the way, that is the round many Russian Krinkovs now shoot, although the Krinkov was first designed to chamber the standard 7.62x39, but was found too hard to control, probably on auto.

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  • Big Sky RedneckBig Sky Redneck Member Posts: 19,752 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    If the right tool was used for the job there would be no problems. Would you use a tack hammer to drive spikes? Each cal has it's area to work in. Why they do not use a .30 cal in those ranges I will never know. The .223 is an excellent CLOSE range cartridge, not long range.
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  • offerorofferor Member Posts: 8,625 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Besides which, the supposed Russian poison bullet is narrower and shorter, so the idea of it's having some magical advantage over the .223 is pure folklore.

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    "If cowardly & dishonorable men shoot unarmed men with army guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary...and not by general deprivation of constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878
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  • NighthawkNighthawk Member Posts: 12,022 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Did you say the October issue?Im a subscriber and I just got my Sept.issue last week.I may be wrong but I thought the M-16 was serving them well.


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  • ndbillyndbilly Member Posts: 1,573 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Yep, October. Has a picture of a Kahr P40 on the cover.
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