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- From: callison@essex.ecn.uoknor.edu (James P. Callison)
- Newsgroups: rec.guns
- Subject: Re: Rifle in Defense (.308 penetration?!)
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- Date: 21 Nov 92 13:19:37 GMT
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- In article <01GRDPWV8U2O9LVHCQ@HUSC3.HARVARD.EDU> zeleny@husc10.harvard.edu (Michael Zeleny) writes:
- #
- #I may be in error regarding the name of the plaster-like substance
- #which separates the rooms in a typical urban dwelling, but my 180gr
- #softnose bullets certainly expand and stay therein, provided that the
- #walls are of a seemingly standard double thickness. An FMJ slug, on
- #the other hand, will go right through, but stops in a brick wall.
-
- In which country, or, more importantly, in which _part_ of which
- country? Drywall is nothing like plaster; drywall is a very soft
- material (somewhat harder than sheetrock, which is pressed gypsum)
- which I can easily put my fist through, and hammers are notorious
- for penetrating at the worst possible time. Somehow, I have a hard
- time believing that a .308 can't penetrate a half inch of material
- that a hammer will go right through...(actually, drywall is usually
- less than a half inch thick, but...)
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- James
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