MTMilitiaman
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And many of us will never understand why people try to make the 5.56 into something it isn't.
It's a great varmint round. It works well on coyotes. But if the military can rate it as a combat round out to 500 yards and put 800 round BDC on our optics, then the 5.7 really is a comparatively 200 yard round.
Expecting what the military does from the 5.56mm isn't much more of a stretch than expecting the 5.7 to perform in modern sub-100 meter urban combat. Even the 9x19mm MP5 was rated for 80 yards. That's 20 yards more than the reported average engagement distance in Iraq...
It's a great varmint round. It works well on coyotes. But if the military can rate it as a combat round out to 500 yards and put 800 round BDC on our optics, then the 5.7 really is a comparatively 200 yard round.
Expecting what the military does from the 5.56mm isn't much more of a stretch than expecting the 5.7 to perform in modern sub-100 meter urban combat. Even the 9x19mm MP5 was rated for 80 yards. That's 20 yards more than the reported average engagement distance in Iraq...