EDIT: I linked here through New Posts so if I am out of my lane here, I apologize and nuke my post if necessary.
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The vast majority of engagements with that weapon, however, were within half that distance and patients usually took several hits.
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I would think that people you are trying to save are patients and people that you are trying to kill are targets.
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As an aside, Chris Kyle (FWFS, brother) was a friend of mine, and while not so patiently listening to one of my Crown-induced rants on the 5.56 NATO, he suggested that it was not caliber I hated, but the bullet. He told me to load up the case as fast as I could, push a 64 grain or heavier soft point round and see what happens.
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This actually annoys me and indicates that he can't be as experienced as he claims. It is incredibly old news such that it should be fairly common knowledge that commercial hunting rounds perform very differently (better at killing living things that are not wearing armor) from issued M855.
That article is so schizophrenic, I am dismissing it completely.