Dave
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It's stupid flat, too.
Right, right, right.
But ballistically, you're saying the 20-inch ballistics is not that much more?
No, no, it is.
But... So when you go from 16 to 11.5 to 7.5, you're losing anywhere between 300 to 500 feet a second.
Right.
Now...
5.56 ball ammo is not great performing regardless of what barrel length you're using.
It doesn't expand.
It may tumble a little bit.
It may bend.
But it really doesn't do anything spectacular.
However, the Hornady 55 grain VMAX in a 16-inch gun is abysmal.
Because it's going so fast when it hits that fucking gel within about six or seven inches, it's exploded.
Now, it would vaporize a fucking prairie dog.
And I'm sure if you shoot somebody with it, it's going to fuck them up.
But when I went to...
11 and a half and seven and a half.
It slowed that V max down so much.
Then instead of impacting and exploding, it actually opened up like a jacket, a hollow point, and it penetrated twice as deep.