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Originally Posted by LeEnfield The British 5.56 round is a nasty little thing, when it hits a person it sort of travels around the body causing mayhem. If it hits you in the leg it is just as likely to run up your leg bone and wind up in the pelvis area. |
This sounds very much like a replay if the misinformation that was prevalent when the 5.56 was first introduced in the Vietnam era. Stories of keyholing, and hitting a man in the foot, shattering every bone in the leg. All pretty much disproved as a mix of manufacturers hype and users over enthusiasm.
I've never shot a man (that I know of), however I have used thousands of rounds of military ammo hunting and although the 5.56 is an excellent round of it's calibre, I've never seen anything that would support any of the stories.
Yep, if you ricochet one off the ground it may well keyhole, tumble or corkscrew, but a clean hit just goes straight through like any other round. The only thing that will deflect their path being bone and often, if struck reasonably squarely that has little effect either.
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Originally Posted by mmarsh The British 5.56? I thought everybody used standard 5.56 NATO ball. |
I think perhaps that he is refering to 5.56 ammo of "British manufacture". Here in Australia we use the SS109 (unless it has changed again) US specification, but manufactured in Australia.