5.56 or .223 is a crappy subsonic round. It's lethality and effectiveness are probably not ideal at 100 plus yards. The rounds probably sound muffled because they were being picked up by Trump's mic. In other videos you can hear the rifle reports much more distinctly.
All due respect, just in from where?
Yeah 5.56 is a small bullet…just slightly larger than a .22. It depends on velocity and spin for its accuracy and lethality (vs common hunting rounds .27-.30 caliber which utilize mass for stability and penetration) and they essentially have to break the sound barrier to do that. Even a suppressed 5.56 round is going to have a sonic boom and the uselessness of subsonic 5.56 is the primary reason behind the development of the .300 blackout round (5.56 case necked out to accommodate .30 caliber projectile) so that larger subsonic rounds could be run through existing sof rifles with a simple barrel swap.
Surprising he was able to get hired with the amount of jumping around his resume shows. We like a little more consistency and “stick-to-itiveness” at my company, but certainly Reverend Graham is entitled to hire as he pleases.
.223 is usually around 3000 feet per second. Not even clove to subsonic. And shaking my head at crappy. If you’ve ever examined a wound channel from one, they are utterly devastating with a proper bullet. I trust them implicitly within 100 yards on deer, so 2-300 yards would be plenty within its range on a much softer human. Where are you getting your info? This was our primary weapon in Vietnam.
That sounds like an exact description of that viral video. He pulls his head off the scope for just a second, the he's back on it the next instant and lowering the trajectory to take the shot(s).
I know a bunch of kids that have no problem switching scopes in Call of Duty. The shooter was probably whopping my ass on-line 10 years ago.
Yeah I don't think that counter sniper is going to be just giving interviews.
Hope he is joking and probably is.
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Kevin is a good man.
I mean someone who is literally Hitler needs their #ReichstagFire.
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I believe this is called humor, guys. That is still allowed in this country
The Reichstag fire occurred after Hitler was already the duly-elected chancellor. Not really similar.
I wouldn't be surprised. One thing that psychotic individuals suffer from is called Ideas of Reference which means they believe the TV or radio is talking directly to them. Not hard to believe that someone suffering from that hears Biden talk about putting Trump in the cross hairs or that he is some evil person, and then going out and doing what this guy did.
I completely understand and was lampooning the progressive morons that have been tagging Reichstag Fire to their tweets claiming that Trump did this to himself to frame his ideological opponents and crush them, like Hitler did to the German commies.
He’s saying 5.56 with subsonic loads sucks, and it does. 5.56 needs big velocities to be an effective round and there’s a reason why it’s the longest tenured combat load in the world at 2800+ fps.
I’m not one for conspiracy theories. But man, a lot of things fell into line for this to happen.
You misunderstood me. I'm referring to a subsonic load...one that doesn't push the round to supersonic speed. A 5.56 needs velocity for accuracy and lethality. Slow it down and it's little better than a 22. As the other poster mentioned, the .300 blackout round was developed as a premium subsonic round (aka .300 WSPR) to fill this niche.
Never even heard what the kid was shooting. Was it indeed 5.56/.223? Have a few for plinking, but when I rifle hunted back in the day always used a .270wsm or .308.
Some have reported that it was an AR style and specifically that it was chambered in 5.56. Prior to that, I had been quick to point out that "AR style" doesn't necessarily mean 5.56/.223. It could also be .308, 7.62, .300, 6.5, etc.
No way. He might have been on that intermediate section between the two buildings where the ladder was positioned, but not up on that roof we see him crawling from.
I think he was transitioning as well. Honestly thought it was a pretty bad ass shot to have to readjust without adjusting optics. Took his eye off scope. Repositioned and bang.
Showing up for me.
It was sarcasm. And apparently expertly crafted!
Points to delays in engaging the shooter preemptively maybe being the result of efforts to deconflict the shot.
Yeah no worries, I was laughing to myself when I was reading his resume, coupled with his career at Clemson. It’s completely badass. We have an HR person who can find fault with anyone, so I was putting on her hat
