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Posted: 9/8/2008 9:42:27 AM EDT
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Hello everyone. I've been lurking 'round here for the past few weeks reading many of the current forum and tacked threads and learning a great deal. The wealth of knowledge and experience here is vast and I intend to make good use of it; and already have, thanks all. Although I've been an avid shooter/gun owner my entire life, the majority of my experience has been with handguns. Prior to my recent AR-15 purchase the only experience with the platform had been periodic use during my U.S.A.F. elistment and with my Father's rifles. In the defensive pistol world there is what's known to us as a tactical magazine loading (gotta love how "tactical" is used for everything these days LOL) where 2 dissimilar types of ammo are staggered in the magazine to achieve a measure of versatility in the happenstance of needing to engage both hard and soft targets. So I wonder: " If I wanted to translate this idea into the AR-15 world how would one accomplish this?" What ammunition types would you mix thru a mag to best take advantage of the AR's attributes? Or, is this a complete waste of time when employing an AR? The chief idea being to maximize one's effectiveness in any home defense or SHTF scenario. |
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IMO, alternating cartridges in handguns is to make up for their inherent inadequacies. I alternate FMJ and DPX in my .380 Kel-Tec in hopes that if one doesn't do the job, the other will. In a rifle...doesn't matter so much. At self-defense ranges, pretty much any cartridges is going to be bad ju-ju. Load it will all the same rounds. Again, IMO. |
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Yeah, I understand the principle you guys are stating,and I know the ballistic performance envelope of 5.56x45 is waaaay beyond my trusty .45 ACP. I realize that your average rifle cartridge delivers far greater performance than most handgun cartridges and therefore aren't governed by the limitations of handgun calibers. But my question was posed with this very fact in mind; indeed would not a mixture of M193 and M855 in my magazine afford me greater versatility and effectiveness attributed to the different loads' design parameters? The best of both worlds so to speak. My 16" A4 digests both rounds equally well with the difference in accuracy between the two being negligible so that is a non-issue. Given a hypothetical scenario of having to defend simultaneously against unprotected flesh and blood targets and those within the cover of a motor vehicle- wouldn't it be better to engage said targets with the anti-personnel behavior of the M193 and the greater penetrating characteristics of the M855? Better yet, a combination of Hornady TAP and M855? What say you? |
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