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It’s good for stealth if you don’t want the whole place pointing at your diaphragm.
Pistols might be quiet but they’re less likely to hit the head or neck regions, especially during high-stress moments.
If you wanna go into details, a longer barrel means a faster spinning bullets, this adds up to more lacerations leading to faster blood loss.
The advantage over a rifle is the rounds are less likely to exit, a three-round burst can mean up to 300 or even 600 grains of lead in the target.
I understand that SMGs are being outdated and it’s a shame to see this happen, these guns still have their uses.
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Is Crossbow ownership a thing with suburb/city folk?
Is it cheaper and easier to maintain than a standard 9mm Pistol?
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faster spinning bullets, this adds up to more lacerations leading to faster blood loss
I thought the spin is to stabilize the bullet in flight and higher than usual spin shouldn’t affect terminal ballistics. Where did you learn that?
longer barrel means a faster spinning bullets
I’m not an expert, but isn’t spin rate determined by twist rate of the rifling? I imagine the bullet is already spinning at the target rate when leaving the barrel. (I guess an exception would be if the barrel is too short.) Or am I wrong?
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When you look at smaller calibers such as .22 lr and 5.45x39 it does seem to play a difference
I didn’t know that, thanks. Do you have an article I could read or something?
The reason the M-4 replaced the M-16 was because the round had too much spin and would destabilize off target at longer range.
This seems unlikely, I’m reluctant to believe it without a source. Spin can be adjusted by changing barrel’s twist rate, so if that was their main objective, they would simply use a lower twist rate. M16 went from 1:14 to 1:12 to 1:7. (The latter was to stabilize newer, longer bullets.) They could change it again if they wanted. I believe the shorter barrel was to make the rifle shorter and lighter, not to adjust bullet spin.
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I guess it depends on how well you take care of it. Like anything, firearms require maintenance.
That being said, most sporting goods stores sell cleaning tools and lubricants and such. Some items are cheap, some inexpensive, others a rip-off.
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@RD4590
It depends. At a minimum you need a rag and mineral oil. Ideally you would use dedicated agents for cleaning, lubrication and protection. Mineral oil won’t provide good rust protection. Having specialized cleaning agents makes cleaning easier and more effective.
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How do Cops, Soldiers, Hunters, and general Gun Nuts not go deaf over the years?
A 9mm bullet going off alone is already enough to make most regular folks get shaken up, so imagine fellas using long guns regularly having their ears assaulted.
I don’t exactly see ear protection on every single Gun User all the time either.
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In the past, soldiers were supposed to “get used to loud noises”. Today we know that it means hearing damage. Sometimes they did plug their ears with wax, cotton, spent brass or other stuff though.
Nowadays gun users wear either ear muffs, ear plugs, and/or use suppressors. If they don’t, they are leveling up their tinnitus.
Of course, people who carry (including cops) don’t wear ear protection all the time because they rightly assume that the chance of actually using the gun is very low. Same for hunters, who only put on earpro when actually shooting.
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Even working in modern factories give people hearing damage sometimes, and that’s much quieter than gun shots. Ear protection is necessary if people hear it too often, like range staffs. But being a police or soldier is much more than just shooting. It’s just one of many skills in their training, so they don’t necessarily hear gun shots all the time.
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