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<blockquote data-quote="Lawyer Daggit" data-source="post: 9601" data-attributes="member: 2872"><p>I am wondering if the 6.8 is going to achieve much at all. Ballistically it appears an awful lot like the 7.62 x39 Russian, a round also not noted for stopping power.</p><p>If uncle Sam and allies want to increase stopping power it seems to me they need to go for a projectile that will increase terminal effect- ie by tumbling or expansion- (which they can when targeting terrorists as the Geneva Convention does not apply to terrorists) or go to a larger round).</p><p>This problem has been around for decades. Churchill stopped using his beloved Broomhandle Mauser in Khartoum when there with a British expedition and started using the issue .455 Webley because it stopped better.</p><p>Western troops who are injured usually want to go home. Those with a religious fire in their belly who do not fear death will fight on, and I do not thing an intermediate 6.8 firing a FMJ is going to prove much of a stopper at all, although it may be better than the 5.56.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lawyer Daggit, post: 9601, member: 2872"] I am wondering if the 6.8 is going to achieve much at all. Ballistically it appears an awful lot like the 7.62 x39 Russian, a round also not noted for stopping power. If uncle Sam and allies want to increase stopping power it seems to me they need to go for a projectile that will increase terminal effect- ie by tumbling or expansion- (which they can when targeting terrorists as the Geneva Convention does not apply to terrorists) or go to a larger round). This problem has been around for decades. Churchill stopped using his beloved Broomhandle Mauser in Khartoum when there with a British expedition and started using the issue .455 Webley because it stopped better. Western troops who are injured usually want to go home. Those with a religious fire in their belly who do not fear death will fight on, and I do not thing an intermediate 6.8 firing a FMJ is going to prove much of a stopper at all, although it may be better than the 5.56. [/QUOTE]
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