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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TTCowcpYk8
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Ojc
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They are Browning M2's do a google search for "Quad 50 cal" now that is pure and utter destructive fire power.
Or the German version a 20mm quad flak cannon, that is more impressive.
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Rob_Lee
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that real? 
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Edd
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Originally posted by Ojc
Hollow tip rounds which tumble upon entry to the body.
I would have thought they would have been safer, not as much of a risk of hitting someone else 
think its more to do with the devastating effect on the person that gets shot tbh
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qtzk8HNPzHY&mode=related&search=
Shelly, these vids are just people shooting at targets, not other people
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Originally posted by CorsAsh
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qtzk8HNPzHY&mode=related&search=
Shelly, these vids are just people shooting at targets, not other people
you sound mildly disappointed at that fact 
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Ojc
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Beautiful weapons
Quad 50 cal
Quad 20mm
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Shelly
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Originally posted by Edd
think its more to do with the devastating effect on the person that gets shot tbh
Obviously they have done something bad to end up being shot at though.
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Ojc
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Normally being American is enough to warrant being shot at IMO IMO
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corsa5dr
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Originally posted by corsa5dr
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Originally posted by Edd
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Originally posted by Shelly
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Originally posted by Ojc
Hollow tip rounds which tumble upon entry to the body.
I would have thought they would have been safer, not as much of a risk of hitting someone else
think its more to do with the devastating effect on the person that gets shot tbh
Surely if you are shooting at someone the whole idea is to fvck them up!?
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Shelly
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quote:
Originally posted by Ojc
Normally being American is enough to warrant being shot at IMO IMO
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Ojc
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Hollow tip rounds normally don't kill, they inflict serious injurys which normally take a while to die from, thats why they were banned.
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andy1868
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bullets are seriously nasty things, depending on the size of the cartridge (the amount of "gun powder" propelling it) some rifles rounds completely disintegrate when they hit you causing alot of little pieces of red hot metal to rip through your body. the exit wound from a rifle can be anything up to the size of a large dinner plate from a 5.56mm round (which is a small round). the smaller cartidged rifle rounds just tend to spin and have the same effect but on a smaller scale, ie not causing as bigger exit wound.
also, when the round is spinning through the air a vacuum is created behind it which sucks in alot of dirt from the air, so not only have you got a piece of metal flying at you at almost a kilometre a second you've also got the threat of infection. although this is admittedly the least of your worries
also, another way to blow half of someones face off is to fire a blank at them with no depresser on the end of the rifle, from an SA80 (the standard issue British army assault rifle) there isup to a 3 foot flame combined with alot of pressure. back in my cadets days they did a demonstration of the power of blanks by tying a paper bag filled with water to a branch and firing a blank about 3 metres away and it completely obliterated it. apparently paper bags are more substantial than your skin too
[Edited on 22-08-2006 by andy1868]
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Ojc
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Andy I love you.
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drax
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They use a hell of alot of ugly amunition you wouldnt want to get near..
Like the shells that hit the side of a tank and crack off a peice of armour inside, which rechochets about inside killing everyone.
Or the tungsten dart which peirces through the tank, and out the otherside, sucking the crew out the exit whole in the back due to the pressure change.
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Carr
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Originally posted by drax
Like the shells that hit the side of a tank and crack off a peice of armour inside, which rechochets about inside killing everyone.
Are these the kinetic energy rounds?
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drax
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Most probably!
they also have bullets that fragment into tiny peices, which would just make people explode, they fire them at APC's and transports, planes the lot, will go through alot of stuff, and litterally just mince people up
[Edited on 22-08-2006 by drax]
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Nismo
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theres a vid on the net of them fireing at different mettals and stuff
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Nismo
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and here the said video is
http://www.filecabi.net/video/50caliber.html
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http://images.google.co.uk/images?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rls=GGLG,GGLG:2005-45,GGLG:en&q=barrett%2050%20cal&sa=N&tab=wi
NWS that link, left hand side is what happens when you're shot in the face with a Barrett .50 Cal
Bullet proof vest not much use then That pic is sick
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Its the .50calibre Barrett M95 Seen it on discovery channel once.. Some Serious shit that gun..
http://www.biggerhammer.net/barrett/video/
[Edited on 22-08-2006 by DaNnY_LaD]
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Jambo
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Desert eagle is now availible in .50cal
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DAYZEE
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I used to make bullets at home before handguns were banned.
Didn't make .50 cal though....
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to answer the original question the bullets that fan out when hitting a solid target are called dum dum rounds, mainly available chambered in .357 they were designed to pass on the most kinetic energy to the target rather than penetrate
in the 50's britain made the change to the 556 round as when it hit the body the lighter round would bounce around causing internal damage rather than death caused by the heavier 762, in theory it removed 3 people from the battlefield as people would be needed to remove the injured as well as treat them. Its for this reason as well as the smaller size and lower weight meaning more can be carried by one person that nato changed from the 762.
As far as hollow point ammunition being banned by the geneva convention...
"They are technically forbidden by the Hague Convention of 1899 but are the most widly used pistol ammunition by police and civilians in the USA.."
says it all really...
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Dom
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off topic slightly - Gatling Gun H60....bit of damage there
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