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Number 10. "Don't rub or file your bullets: if you are caught with such bullets on you, you will be shot, and serves you right." What is the purpose of rubbing or filing a bullet?

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Originally posted by gambit3
Number 10. "Don't rub or file your bullets: if you are caught with such bullets on you, you will be shot, and serves you right." What is the purpose of rubbing or filing a bullet?
Maybe it's a euphemism.

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Originally posted by gambit3
Number 10. "Don't rub or file your bullets: if you are caught with such bullets on you, you will be shot, and serves you right." What is the purpose of rubbing or filing a bullet?
instead of passing cleanly through, it will break apart and do more internal damage

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Originally posted by duecer
instead of passing cleanly through, it will break apart and do more internal damage
...not if it's made of cheese - it'll just bounce off

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Originally posted by gambit3
Number 10. "Don't rub or file your bullets: if you are caught with such bullets on you, you will be shot, and serves you right." What is the purpose of rubbing or filing a bullet?
All filing bullets down does is take their center of balance out of true, flatten their tips and reduce their aerodynamic stability and ballistic coefficient, making them innacurate. It's a retarded thing to do.

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Originally posted by duecer
instead of passing cleanly through, it will break apart and do more internal damage
m16 rounds do that anyway.

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Originally posted by Sam The Sham
All filing bullets down does is take their center of balance out of true, flatten their tips and reduce their aerodynamic stability and ballistic coefficient, making them innacurate. It's a retarded thing to do.
Perhaps it is to make it fragment and do more damage. Whatever it does it is against international law for military personnel to do it. It is true that any alteration of a bullet may give it an unstable flight. I would guess that such a altered bullet may be used at close range or to kill somebody.

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Originally posted by AThousandYoung
m16 rounds do that anyway.
that's an urban legend

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Originally posted by Sam The Sham
that's an urban legend
not so... http://www.brooksidepress.org/Products/OperationalMedicine/DATA/operationalmed/Manuals/NATOEWS/ch02/02Projectiles.html
Scroll down to the section on 22 CAL FMC

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Originally posted by elohiym chanan
not so... http://www.brooksidepress.org/Products/OperationalMedicine/DATA/operationalmed/Manuals/NATOEWS/ch02/02Projectiles.html
Scroll down to the section on 22 CAL FMC
"The temporary cavity size and location are about the same and any difference in wounds caused by the two would be cliff cult to recognize."

I'm not so sure someone with this strong a grip on language should be carrying out experiments that involve shooting people and measuring the wounds. 😕

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Originally posted by PBE6
"The temporary cavity size and location are about the same and any difference in wounds caused by the two would be cliff cult to recognize."

I'm not so sure someone with this strong a grip on language should be carrying out experiments that involve shooting people and measuring the wounds. 😕
I believe they carry out these experiments by shooting into gelatin so they can see the results.

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Originally posted by smw6869
I believe they carry out these experiments by shooting into gelatin so they can see the results.

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Probably less cliff cult that way.

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Originally posted by PBE6
Probably less cliff cult that way.
HeHe! Exactly. I think.

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Originally posted by AThousandYoung
m16 rounds do that anyway.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but it seems I remember hearing that the twist ratio of some or all of the M-16 barrels was too low, causing the aerodynamic instability of the bullets.

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Originally posted by Mad Rook
Correct me if I'm wrong, but it seems I remember hearing that the twist ratio of some or all of the M-16 barrels was too low, causing the aerodynamic instability of the bullets.
You are wrong. Unstable bullets have terrible accuracy, the M-16 stabilizes them just fine.

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