More sacred cows
Not only does your favorite gun suck, but your favorite ammo sucks too.
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December 9th, 2008 at 12:40 am
Cool! Lets talk smack about rifle cartridges. Start with the .30-06; Over a century old, people keep going back to it because no one seems able to make anything much better. Over-powered for deer, under-powered for larger animals, this round is favored by old people who still think the 1903 Springfield is the state-of-the-art in rifle design. Overly long for its ballistic performance, it requires a magnum-length action for standard performance.
.308 Win; A compromise from the .30-06, made for select-fire rifles that no one uses anymore, and few ever did. It’s considered today’s “all-around” rifle cartrigdge, mainly because it does everything, but not very well.
.223 Rem; Designed for its light weight, low recoil, and the ability of one person to carry a lot of rounds in a standard combat load. It’s a good thing too, because its other “feature” is its ability to wound, rather than kill.
7.62 x 39; Designed by Communists in the 1940s because they were inpressed by the German 8 mm Kurtz round in the Sturmgewehr, then abandoned by the Ruskys in 1974, but used widely none the less, mostly because of its cheap manufacture by slaves in communsit countries. Its ballistics are a “match” to the American .30-30 of 1894, if you discount the fact that it shoots far lighter bullets at wildly random velocities. Heavier than the .223, it does about the same job, but weights three times as much when loaded into magazines and is far less accurate. Most 7.62 x 39 cases cannot be reloaded (so much for the savings) because they’re made of steel and Berdan primed. They are good for decorating gun ranges with thousands of rust globs, because that’s how many shots it took to hit something when bump firing.
Ok I’ll quit now. Somewhere around here I have a life. I just need to find it.
December 9th, 2008 at 1:51 am
Addenda;
.30-06; It’s a great machinegun round, assuming you like guns that weigh 150 pounds, require a minimum crew of three to operate, and were designed before W.W. II.
.30-06 & .308; They enjoy the widest selection of bullets, presumeably because you can’t find any one bullet that actually does what you want.
.223 rem; (light in weight and low in recoil) because its power isn’t enough to put down anything larger than an emaciated coyote. The most oft stated reason for selecting the .223 is that everyone else uses it. This is bacause no better reason has yet been found.
7.62 x 39; The most oft stated reason for selecting the 7.62 x 39 is that everyone else uses it. This is because the Russians gave away all they could give to other communist countries. This never did anyone any good, as those other communist countries are all miserable failures too.
December 9th, 2008 at 1:55 am
This isn’t difficult. Just talk the way a leftist talks about Americana– everything about it sucks.