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  • I just watched "The Tomorrow War" again on Amazon Prime

    From Lynn McGuire@21:1/5 to All on Sat Mar 19 21:42:21 2022
    I just watched "The Tomorrow War" again on Amazon Prime. Might I say
    that those regular troop issue future M4 rifles looks like a popgun on
    the 300 to 600 lb alien creatures. 5.56 mm ain't gonna cut it, 7.62
    gets better, and .50 cal becomes a necessity.
    https://www.guns.com/news/2021/07/06/the-tomorrow-war-the-guns

    Lynn

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  • From J. Clarke@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Sun Mar 20 16:05:41 2022
    On Sat, 19 Mar 2022 21:42:21 -0500, Lynn McGuire
    <[email protected]> wrote:

    I just watched "The Tomorrow War" again on Amazon Prime. Might I say
    that those regular troop issue future M4 rifles looks like a popgun on
    the 300 to 600 lb alien creatures. 5.56 mm ain't gonna cut it, 7.62
    gets better, and .50 cal becomes a necessity.
    https://www.guns.com/news/2021/07/06/the-tomorrow-war-the-guns

    But dontcha know, "recognized firearms experts" assert that the 5.56mm
    is "the biggest bullet they've ever seen".

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  • From Dimensional Traveler@21:1/5 to J. Clarke on Sun Mar 20 14:35:10 2022
    On 3/20/2022 1:05 PM, J. Clarke wrote:
    On Sat, 19 Mar 2022 21:42:21 -0500, Lynn McGuire
    <[email protected]> wrote:

    I just watched "The Tomorrow War" again on Amazon Prime. Might I say
    that those regular troop issue future M4 rifles looks like a popgun on
    the 300 to 600 lb alien creatures. 5.56 mm ain't gonna cut it, 7.62
    gets better, and .50 cal becomes a necessity.
    https://www.guns.com/news/2021/07/06/the-tomorrow-war-the-guns

    But dontcha know, "recognized firearms experts" assert that the 5.56mm
    is "the biggest bullet they've ever seen".

    Because anything bigger is a "cannon shell"?

    --
    I've done good in this world. Now I'm tired and just want to be a cranky
    dirty old man.

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  • From J. Clarke@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Sun Mar 20 23:03:17 2022
    On Sun, 20 Mar 2022 14:35:10 -0700, Dimensional Traveler
    <[email protected]> wrote:

    On 3/20/2022 1:05 PM, J. Clarke wrote:
    On Sat, 19 Mar 2022 21:42:21 -0500, Lynn McGuire
    <[email protected]> wrote:

    I just watched "The Tomorrow War" again on Amazon Prime. Might I say
    that those regular troop issue future M4 rifles looks like a popgun on
    the 300 to 600 lb alien creatures. 5.56 mm ain't gonna cut it, 7.62
    gets better, and .50 cal becomes a necessity.
    https://www.guns.com/news/2021/07/06/the-tomorrow-war-the-guns

    But dontcha know, "recognized firearms experts" assert that the 5.56mm
    is "the biggest bullet they've ever seen".

    Because anything bigger is a "cannon shell"?

    Is that how they reasoned, that, for example, a .30-06 is a "cannon
    shell"? I always assumed that they were either morons or lying
    through their teeth.

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  • From Dimensional Traveler@21:1/5 to J. Clarke on Sun Mar 20 21:19:22 2022
    On 3/20/2022 8:03 PM, J. Clarke wrote:
    On Sun, 20 Mar 2022 14:35:10 -0700, Dimensional Traveler
    <[email protected]> wrote:

    On 3/20/2022 1:05 PM, J. Clarke wrote:
    On Sat, 19 Mar 2022 21:42:21 -0500, Lynn McGuire
    <[email protected]> wrote:

    I just watched "The Tomorrow War" again on Amazon Prime. Might I say
    that those regular troop issue future M4 rifles looks like a popgun on >>>> the 300 to 600 lb alien creatures. 5.56 mm ain't gonna cut it, 7.62
    gets better, and .50 cal becomes a necessity.
    https://www.guns.com/news/2021/07/06/the-tomorrow-war-the-guns

    But dontcha know, "recognized firearms experts" assert that the 5.56mm
    is "the biggest bullet they've ever seen".

    Because anything bigger is a "cannon shell"?

    Is that how they reasoned, that, for example, a .30-06 is a "cannon
    shell"? I always assumed that they were either morons or lying
    through their teeth.

    Well, _I_ would consider anyone who classified anything bigger than 5.56
    mm as a cannon shell to be an idiot, so....

    --
    I've done good in this world. Now I'm tired and just want to be a cranky
    dirty old man.

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  • From Paul S Person@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Mon Mar 21 08:15:17 2022
    On Sun, 20 Mar 2022 16:05:41 -0400, J. Clarke
    <[email protected]> wrote:

    On Sat, 19 Mar 2022 21:42:21 -0500, Lynn McGuire
    <[email protected]> wrote:

    I just watched "The Tomorrow War" again on Amazon Prime. Might I say
    that those regular troop issue future M4 rifles looks like a popgun on
    the 300 to 600 lb alien creatures. 5.56 mm ain't gonna cut it, 7.62
    gets better, and .50 cal becomes a necessity.
    https://www.guns.com/news/2021/07/06/the-tomorrow-war-the-guns

    But dontcha know, "recognized firearms experts" assert that the 5.56mm
    is "the biggest bullet they've ever seen".

    Well, maybe it /is/. The biggest that /they/ have ever seen.

    It's been over 50 years, but I am reasonably sure the M14 rounds I
    fired in BCT back in 1969 were bigger than the M16 rounds I eventually
    fired for "familiarization".
    --
    "I begin to envy Petronius."
    "I have envied him long since."

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