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Many of my army buddies say effective combat range for man size target is "no more" than 200 meters
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Wow - I retired from the Army and I never heard that...
Did they mean they couldn't
hit a man-sized target at more than 200 meters?
Would I expect a 5.56 to "one-shot, dead-right-there" an enemy threat at 300 meters? No, but if I hit him center mass, I sure ruined his day to say the least.
And 300 meters with standard issue sights was do-able even with the M16A1 with the old style ammo. By do-able, I mean I was able to do it consistently even in Basic Training with no prior rifle shooting experience.