droppointalpha

107066 pts ยท January 3, 2016


Posting your politics on imgur is like taking a dump in the kids park; no body but you wants it here and your insistence on doing so b/c [insert reason(s) here] is childish. Make sure you read the fine print. Fake internet points are fake. Srsly. They are fake. Also, I do not have a mailing list. Sorry. If you like what you read, try checking in here from time to time. Remember that it is not always my personal opinion/stance. Sometimes I play the devils advocate because holding a correct belief for the wrong reason(s) is, in the long run, little better than holding an incorrect belief for no reason at all. What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they dont like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, dont expect freedom to survive very long. - Thomas Sowell

'know your history' but cites two events three years apart as cause and effect despite BTP a response to the Tea Act and governor's orders.

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Oleg Volk photographer, IIRC.

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Wish he was still making music.

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Not sure about all states but in some, misconduct/criminal acts are grounds for revocation of LE license/cert/whatever.

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wow... insane how high up he is. But that username tho.

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we.....

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goodness this is hi-rez

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factory load, leaves the muzzle at about 2600fps. A 115gr 9mm, like what No 7 appears to be, in a +P loading, exits at ~1250fps.

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pistols expel their bullet at little more than about half the speed of a comparable projectile from a rifle. For example, No 4, in a 20/

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these all-copper bullets are scored or formed in a way to encourage fragmentation into petals. More so the pistol bullets, as few 19/

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Like the .300 Blackout load (No 4), it is intended to be fired at high velocity to impact with enough energy to fragment. Usually, 18/

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energy on the point and forcing the target to deform. Finally, No 7 appears to be a solid copper (or cupro-nickel) pistol munition. 17/

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to punch through thin steel. Like No 2, the hardness means the penetrator retains its shape and small impact surface, directing all its 16/

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projectile in penetrating lightly armored targets at ranges beyond 300yds. The steel 'cap' gives the rest of the lead core a hard tip 15/

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appears to be an M855/SS109. It's core is a steel penetrator stacked over top of a lead base. This was to improve performance of the 14/

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soft target. The fragments continue forward in a conical dispersion path, tearing tissue. For hunting and anti-personnel use. No 6 13/

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other solid copper projectiles in driving to very high velocities such that impact causes a violent fragmentation a few inches inside a 12/

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steel core. No 4 appears to be Lehigh Defense's 115gr 'Controlled Chaos Copper' munition. As I understand, it follows the same vein as 11/

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be No 3's smaller cousin, the 7.62x39 used in the AK/AKM and RPK families of firearms. Also appearing to be surplus, it too has a soft 10/

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much harder than lead so it represents a quasi penetrator of performance between the first and second types to its left. No 4 appears to 9/

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plentiful than lead. So this is likely a soft steel core wrapped in the usual copper or cuppro-nickel jacket. The soft steel is still 8/

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like a sabot which is not discarded. No 3 appears to be a conventional surplus bullet for 7.62x54R. For the Russians, steel was much more 7/

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SIDE NOTE: it is hard to tell metal type by color alone, especially in this washed out image. This could also be hardened steel.

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energy of the projectile penetrates (or doesn't) by virtue of its kinetic energy and small impact point. In this sense, the jacket acts 6/

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the jacket fails and is shed by the rod (assuming impact with a hard surface). The inner rod, making up a majority of the mass and thus 5/

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No 2 is a conventional penetrator. In this case, what appears to be tungsten rod. Upon impact, the heavier rod continues forward while 4/

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is likely to result. Copper jacketing also is stronger, resulting in better penetration at the reduction of projectile expansion. 3/

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reducing lead fouling in barrels (which, if allowed to build up, would eventually constrict the barrel so much that violent failure 2/

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Ah. In that case- Starting from the left, we see a conventional jacketed bullet. Jacketing evolved from lead bullets as a method of 1/

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many different powders. 9

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