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Old 04-11-2018, 05:36 AM   #28
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Default Re: .280 British Stats?

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Originally Posted by Tomsdad View Post
I also think there's bit of an unofficial "really in modern war and the long list of terrible things post it can to do to people, high velocity 5.56's that bend is what you want to worry about" attitude in play as well.
That view has been around since no later than WWI. Poison gas aside, in WWI you had these rules about not using expansive bullets, on made-up grounds of them being too nasty, while soldiers were being killed and maimed by the hundreds of thousands by jagged shell fragments.
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