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Posted: 7/31/2006 10:28:46 AM EDT
| i would like some opinions please. i am going to use 5 30 rounders loaded up with ammo used STRICLY for home defense. if you had to pick just one ammo to load up 5 clips to use for home self defense what would it be? by the way i am usuing a bushy a2 5.56 chambered 1:9 twist. thanks in advance guys |
Not to mention the link is there to B&T Ammo Labs testing of the 75grn match BTHP which would be a good choice IF your rifle can handle them..... Always read the tacked topics...  Mike |
Right, I WILL have A grab bag loaded with the HSM 75gr BTHP from THIS THREAD........ I cant wait to see what results the Wolf 77gr produce.... CXS |
You might want to read ALL of the tacked posts in the ammo forum. You'll save yourself a lot of grief. |
I'm not sure what you're saying, but he's asking for his 1/9 barrel. |
I dont even know what I'm saying anymore..... I need to stay off the coffee...... 
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I was going to say the same. Plus he really should load his magazines ahead of time. Now for a serious response. For me there are three choices. M193 - 55gr FMJ - Good all around ammo M855 - 62gr FMJ w/steel perpetrator - Better if you think you need to shoot through intermediate barriers. Worse if you neighbor's exterior walls in an 'intermediate barrier' Win 64 gr Power Point - This bullet uses expansion rather than fragmentation. It's personal preference (a.k.a. a holy war) as to which is better. |
Can you please show me the data that led you to the conclusion that M855 is a good barrier round? I see this often and cant figure out where its coming from. All I have seen is it will penetrate the barrier and rip out the penetrator and shed its jacket and become a blob of lead with reduced penetration and wounding characteristics when going through tough barriers like auto glass etc. |
Odds are he will get similar accuracy and far better termianl performnace from 75 grain TAP 5.56 than he will from M193 in his 1/9 barrel. |
I was trying to say something like that???? i dunno..... all I know is the 75gr is a body dropper from what ive read, and I have all the M193 I need, cause thats my GP round... so there is no reason to keep it for SHTF, I want a body dropper for that.... I think thats what I was trying to say today at work.... |
Plenty of VC dropped from m193 |
I thought that was the only good thing about the M855. I even saw an article in which they tested the M193, M855, Mk262 against various barriers and the M855 smoked them. |
Wow. I'd like to read that article. I've found that M855 does almost nothing better than M193. If you (not YOU specifically) are looking for barrier penetration from anything out of 5.56, I think you're barking up the wrong tree in the wrong forest. |
Then let's hear from the right Forest.  For barrier penetraion with good terminal results on the other side, follow Dr Roberts advice (from the duty ammo thread):
If you want to penetrate a steel helmet at 600M then select the M855. |
I went the cheap route and bought RANGER 64PP 11.00 a box For extra penetration Also Like Markm above M193 can almost do everything M855 can do can the 64pp or TBC pass threw the same metal plates as the M193/m855? |
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