Quoted: Well it has its fans.
Oly Mforgery got indignant posted some numbers he claims shows that the FiveSeven is a great gun:
10 % ballistic gelatin, covered by the material listed, penetration from a 5-7 pistol
Bare gelatin...........7.75" FBI heavy clothing.....9.00" IIA vest...............6.00"
According to a Charles Petty article from the Jan/Feb 2000 issue of American Hangunner.
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Now why are these numbers bad?
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Huh?? I didn't get indignant. I posted that some places may like the 5-7 pistol because it has a signifigant ability to pierce vests, and is likely to stay inside the intended shootee.
You responded I was wrong.
I posted the numbers.
My point was that it has the ability to pierce a vest, and will probably not have sufficient "ooomph" to leave the person that it is shot into.
Then you stopped responding to THAT thread. I was kinda expecting that you might have some info/data that I wasn't aware of. I was kinda expecting you to continue in that thread.
I agree with Brouhaha's assesment of it's wounding potential.
It is a neat round if
1) You need to defeat soft body armor.
2) Youn are worried about backstop, overpentration issues.
It is a poor round if
1) You have to pay fot those rounds.
2) You have to actually injure the person you are shooting.
3) Fire it out of a 5-7 psitol, which has a 20 round mag, and reportedly an AWFUL trigger.