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Originally Posted by Barry-xlovecam
An AR-15 is designed for killing people a .223 / 5.56 AR-15 does maximum internal damage and tears the shit out of game meat. If you want to keep a semi auto AR-15 around for personal protection and property defense -- fine. A Mossberg 500 is a lot better for that -- not playing ''soldier'' with an overpriced weapon marketed toward play-solders. That is a military style weapon made for killing people -- not for game or varmint hunting.
It's just a dumbed down version of a M-16. No 3 round burst or full auto-fire.
Modern Sporting Rifle my ass.
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Wrong,
It was designed to wound not to kill. A wounded enemy needs help, which takes more enemies out of the fight. A dead enemy needs no imediate help.
Secondly a 5.56 round is like half the size and weight than the 7.62 x 51, (which is what the 5.56 replaced) when the army went from the M-14 to the M-16, thus enabling soldiers to carrry twice the ammunition.
As far as damage, the .30 cal 7.62 x 51 NATO round which had a 150.5 gr projectile traveling at 2750 fps will flat out fuck some shit up.
The 22 .cal 5.56 NATO round with a 62 gr projectile at 3000 fps is nothing to sneeze at but nowhere near the damage done as the heavier .30 cal 7.62 traveling almost as fast.
It's a huge hunk of lead that does MASSIVE damage.
Most sniper rifles still use 7.62 x 51 to this date because it's Bad Ass, you will never see a 5.56 sniper rifle because they really suck in comparison.