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Old June 26, 2013, 11:38 AM   #15
gak
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I was going to say, all they hooey aside about heavy, quilted Chicom uniforms stopping the "weak" carbine, lack of penetration is the not the .30 Carbine's problem. They had no problem going through helmet, head and out the other side of the helmet. Try standard 110 ball on an old (ie heavy gauge metal) car body--no problem. It was that it often did not "dump" its energy when it "needed" to and, if anything, over-penetrated (for the shooter's particular quarry--two or four legged). When it did well, obviously the comparatively narrow wound channel(s) and/or energy it did expend/transfer was sufficient to do the job--ie, "chancing" upon vitals (multiple successive hits of course increasing those chances) or smaller (enough) quarry to begin with to not matter. Soft points developed over the past several years have done wonders to render the Carbine as an excellent home/self defense, small game and pest'er weapon/round, and the Hornady round sounds like it's taken it one better yet.

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