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Originally Posted by perdurabo
Advice, thoughts, & corrective actions appreciated.
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This is a question that I am trying to answer as well and have been searching here off and for a little while.
Much of the information seems contradictory to the point that it seems no matter what you use, make sure you hit your target.
Some people state that the M193 is fine and does not overpenetrate while other information (Fakler, specifically) is quoted as saying that it is a poor choice.
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The wound profile of the M193 bullet (page 29 of the Emergency War Surgery—NATO Handbook, GPO, Washington, D.C., 1988) shows that most often the bullet travels about five inches through flesh before beginning significant yaw. But about 15% of the time, it travels much farther than that before yawing—in which case it causes even milder wounds, if it missed bones, guts, lung, and major blood vessels. In my experience and research, at least as many M16 users in Vietnam concluded that it produced unacceptably minimal, rather than “massive”, wounds. After viewing the wound profile, recall that the Vietnamese were small people, and generally very slim. Many M16 bullets passed through their torsos traveling mostly point forward, and caused minimal damage. Most shots piercing an extremity, even in the heavier-built Americans, unless they hit bone, caused no more damage than a 22 caliber rimfire bullet.”
Fackler, ML: “Literature Review”. Wound Ballistics Review; 5(2):40, Fall 2001
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For the opposite side of the coin, there is this summary how the TAP failed to stop a suspect after several shots as it lacked effective penetration.
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It seems that there are enough people that have successfully used a variety of .223/5.56 while others have seen it fail. In a home defense situation, I would hope to not miss at that range but with the conflicting information and accounts available, for now, I am sidelineing the AR a defensive choice and am staying with my 12g loaded with Federal 00B w/flight control.
Based on the information in this
thread, I would like to locate some RBCD ammo before relying on the AR for home defense.