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<blockquote data-quote="goodgrouper" data-source="post: 99997" data-attributes="member: 2852"><p>Thanks everyone for your great information! SOunds like the marine snipers are better equipped and better trained than the army snipers. As such, I wonder if they are called in to special situations more often.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Lerch,</p><p></p><p> [ QUOTE ]</p><p> These same guys will argue with me to the bitter F-ing end that the 308 is greatest long range round ever created. I have tried to talk to them about other more ballistically profecient rounds and all they say is "then why doesnt the military use it"</p><p> </p><p></p><p>[/ QUOTE ] </p><p></p><p>I have had this exact same conversation with a few army guys here and their response was identical. I know the 308 is a good round but <em>there are so many better rounds!</em> Can you imagine if the military got a good deal on a bunch of 6mm, 8" twist barrels and Eugene Stoner was a 6mm fan? We could have m16's firing 6br's with 95 grain vld's thus having superior rifle ballistics to the 308, the 223, and the 6.8 in a small, fast handling package. The military (with tax dollars in hand) could make the m16 feed the br and we'd have a standard issue infantry weapon with lethal killing ability to 1200 yards! The 308 would be going transonic or already be subsonic and the little 6br would still be screaming!</p><p></p><p>So why has the military not caught on to this? Well, you know what happens when you've been doing things one way for so long. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/frown.gif</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="goodgrouper, post: 99997, member: 2852"] Thanks everyone for your great information! SOunds like the marine snipers are better equipped and better trained than the army snipers. As such, I wonder if they are called in to special situations more often. Lerch, [ QUOTE ] These same guys will argue with me to the bitter F-ing end that the 308 is greatest long range round ever created. I have tried to talk to them about other more ballistically profecient rounds and all they say is "then why doesnt the military use it" [/ QUOTE ] I have had this exact same conversation with a few army guys here and their response was identical. I know the 308 is a good round but [i]there are so many better rounds![/i] Can you imagine if the military got a good deal on a bunch of 6mm, 8" twist barrels and Eugene Stoner was a 6mm fan? We could have m16's firing 6br's with 95 grain vld's thus having superior rifle ballistics to the 308, the 223, and the 6.8 in a small, fast handling package. The military (with tax dollars in hand) could make the m16 feed the br and we'd have a standard issue infantry weapon with lethal killing ability to 1200 yards! The 308 would be going transonic or already be subsonic and the little 6br would still be screaming! So why has the military not caught on to this? Well, you know what happens when you've been doing things one way for so long. [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img] [/QUOTE]
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