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- From: jheath@fieldofdreams.npirs.purdue.edu (Jim Heath)
- Newsgroups: rec.guns
- Subject: Re: Rifle in Defense (.308 penetration?!)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.152124.25278@CERIS.Purdue.EDU>
- Date: 23 Nov 92 21:39:01 GMT
- Sender: magnum@mimsy.umd.edu
- Organization: Center for Environmental and Regulatory Information Systems, Purdue University
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- #From article <75751@hydra.gatech.EDU>, by gt4458c@prism.gatech.edu (John Stephens Cronin):
- #
- # #In article <1992Nov19.195759.11856@CERIS.Purdue.EDU>
- # #jheath@fieldofdreams.npirs.purdue.edu (Jim Heath) writes:
- # #
- # ##>I will use my laser-sighted .308 SIG AMT, loaded with 20 rounda of
- # ##>frangible ammunition, unless I have no other weapon at my disposal.
- # ##>The 18" barrel makes it handy around corners, the softnose ammo will
- # ##>not penetrate decent drywall
- #
- # I have to agree with the gentleman who doubts the claim that softnose .308
- # ammo will not penetrate drywall. I have personally shot a Crosman pellet
- # gun (.177 caliber at about 700 fps) completely through an interior wall
- # that had drywall on either side (I assume that this is what you mean when
- # you say two layers). I have also shot completely through an interior
- # door (typical hollow construction). If your 180 grain .308 softpoints
- # will not do the same (at the bare minimum!), then either you have armored
- # drywall or a very weak .308. .308 softpoint should be able to penetrate
- # drywall, and a lot of it. I have a .30-06 which is only a bit more powerful
- # than your .308, and I am pretty sure it would go through a cinderblock firewall
- # in a addition to a layer of drywall on each side.
- #
-
- Beg your pardon, but I _was not_ the person who claimed that .308 would
- not penetrate drywall. I was the one who thought it could be penetrated
- with a pellet pistol.
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