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2004-01-01 Iraq

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Posted by Steve White 2004-01-01 3:02:19 AM|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Wow. Cool!

Posted by Ptah 2004-1-1 6:31:14 AM|| [http://www.crusaderwarcollege.org] 2004-1-1 6:31:14 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 I was under the ipresion that breaching rounds used powdered metal,no round going through 2-3 walls.30 rounds of 5.56,backed-up with 3 rounds of.oo buck.Now that be cool.

Posted by raptor 2004-1-1 6:51:07 AM|| 2004-1-1 6:51:07 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 I was always under the impression that a 40mm grenade could also be used as a breaching round... just be sure to stand back from the door a bit.

Posted by snellenr 2004-1-1 8:25:54 AM|| 2004-1-1 8:25:54 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 Masterkey Excellent!

Posted by Shipman 2004-1-1 8:33:23 AM|| 2004-1-1 8:33:23 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 I'll huff - and I'll puff
and now I'm gonna
blow this f**king door down !!

Posted by Anonymous 2004-1-1 9:47:09 AM|| 2004-1-1 9:47:09 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 True "masterkey" would be a tank's main gun!

Posted by Anonymous 2004-1-1 12:15:27 PM|| 2004-1-1 12:15:27 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 raptor: Pretty sweet deal here, although it's known that SOCOM has used this for years as a staple of the M4A1 SOPMOD kit :) By the way, I have plenty of gun magazines here (Guns & Ammo and the like) here, and one of my back issues is about "breaching round ballistics" on human bodies (courtesy of an FBI study) -- at a breacher's extremely-close-quarters range of work, breaching rounds're still lethal enough :)

snellenr: Rifle grenades would do the trick -- I've a downloaded video of high-speed grenades in action designed to knock down the door outright, and have you seen the XM320 grenade launcher for the XM8 rifle?

Posted by Lu Baihu 2004-1-1 1:29:39 PM|| 2004-1-1 1:29:39 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 re: .00 buck - bet it has a nice kick too. I have a Winchester Defender: pistol grip 12Ga, 18" barrel, and when I use .00 buck, the barrel comes up so quick I pump another shell in reflexively. It holds 8 shells, and I'm sure most doors would have no chance of stopping it... :-)

Posted by Frank G 2004-1-1 1:52:10 PM|| 2004-1-1 1:52:10 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 I've got a 10-gauge double-barrel that I inherited from my great-grandfather. It'll take down a door, take out most small boats, and thresh wheat over about six acres! The left barrel's full choke, the right barrel half-choke, and both are about 40 inches long. The only problem is, it takes two strong men and a husky boy to fire the &$*&*% thing, and NOBODY makes shells for it (Small "THANK GOD!" for that)! I've fired it twice (left barrel only!), and it took about six weeks for the bruise to go away each time.

Posted by Old Patriot 2004-1-1 3:55:53 PM|| [http://users.codenet.net/mweather/default.htm] 2004-1-1 3:55:53 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 Boom!Boom! Avon Calling!

Posted by CrazyFool 2004-1-1 9:18:37 PM|| 2004-1-1 9:18:37 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 Better yet, OP, there's a firm in Aregentina (or was, last time I checked) that made a micro-grenade that fit nicely into a 12-gauge shotgun shell. That would work nicely, and reduce the need for that 6mm/20mm assault rifle-grenade lashup the DoD is working on at the moment.

Ed.

Posted by Ed Becerra 2004-1-1 11:46:22 PM|| 2004-1-1 11:46:22 PM|| Front Page Top

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