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- From: miles@ms.uky.edu (Stephen D. Grant)
- Newsgroups: rec.guns
- Subject: Re: Armor Piercing rounds
- Message-ID: <9211210228.aa07565@s.s.ms.uky.edu>
- Date: 21 Nov 92 13:18:51 GMT
- Sender: news@mimsy.umd.edu
- Organization: University of Kentucky, USA. -5 GMT
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- Approved: gun-control@cs.umd.edu
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- boardman%cancer.unm.edu@lynx.unm.edu (Bob Boardman) writes:
-
- #In article <9211172159.aa29855@s.s.ms.uky.edu>,
- # miles@ms.uky.edu (Stephen D. Grant) writes:
- ##
- ##Don't forget to try the .223 SS109 round.
- ##Althugh not a "true" AP round, you'll find that the carbide "pennetrator"
- ##does quite nicely. :)
- ##
- # Well, I guess we can try some SS109 if we can find it, but I wasn't
- # very impressed by it at a shoot a year or so ago - a couple of guys had
- # just got some SS109, and were shooting it at a junk disk brake disk that
- # we happened to find. The disk was maybe slightly thicker than 1/4"
- # (from memory), and their shots hitting it at a range of about 10 yards
- # only made slight "smears" on the surface, with no penetration at all.
-
- I don't know what you were shooting. But it wasn't SS109!
- I promise you that the carbide pennetrator will do more than
- "smear" the surface.
- I'm so confident that I'm going to try some on a disc rotor I
- happen to have laying around. I also have a few hundred rounds of
- SS109 to play with (I'll only try a few though).
- A good way to tell if your round is SS109 is to use a magnet.
- See if the magnet will stick to the bullet. You can also pull the
- bullet and weigh/cut it. That little carbide "cone" is HARD!
- At the LEAST the SS109 should ding the metal REAL good. :)
- I'll let you know how it comes out,,, might go tomorrow morning. :)
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