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- From: bbx!bbxrbk!russ@unmvax.cs.unm.edu (Russ Kepler)
- Newsgroups: rec.guns
- Subject: Re: Cartridges needing identification
- Message-ID: <1992Dec31.005532.4347@bbxrbk>
- Date: 31 Dec 92 01:26:11 GMT
- Sender: magnum@mimsy.umd.edu
- Organization: russ at home in Albuquerque New Mexico
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- In article <9212301352.aa07949@claudius.pica.army.mil> erudnick@pica.army.mil (FSAC-SID) writes:
- #The blue plastic 7.62 NATO cartridges are short range practice cartridges.
- #Upon firing the "bullet" breaks away from the "case" at the slight groove
- #or step and proceeds down the barrel. The blunt shape and light weight
- #cause it to slow down rapidly, but it's lethal at close range. Similar
- #cartridges are available for 9mm, 5.56mm, and .50 BMG.
- #
- #"DAG" is I think Dynamit Nobel AG.
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- Thanks to Ed and the others (Alexander Eichener of Germany and Chris
- Evans of New Zealand) who identified this cartridge. They were given to
- me partly as a gag gift.
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- In response I told 'em I was going to go Smurf hunting ;-)
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- Russ Kepler, posting from home russ@bbx.basis.com, bbxrbk!russ@bbx.basis.com
- "It's better to be quotable than to be honest" - Tom Stoppard
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