test please delete

[alreadypacked]

I'll call the Smithsonian

[DS23]

nothing like teaching students elementary electronics then?

[DS23]

or is that elementary students electronics?

[Diver]

HTH.

These 9mm rounds you mentioned... pistol?

Yes, Full Auto Stechkin 9mm, Russian made, cubans left a lot behind in africa. it would fire on full auto with the trigger depressed, it would also take the standard 9mm NATO round.
Lovely weapon, used to twist in your hand on full auto.

You ever tried crawling through thick brush with an armalite or M16.
Bush work is close up. How they managed with AK's is a mystery to me.
the banana mag was an accident waiting to happen.
No wonder they couldn't hit the side of a barn.

[Diver]

Duder's banned again everyone...

IP as well this time probably

[richard-af]

How many times has he been banned? Just curious, in an idle, don't really care sort of way.

[Diver]

He was nasty to our Sal... the bounder.

Nasty to Sal, where?

[Diver]

Thank you Zeity, I think he thoroughly deserved it this time.
I won't be campaigning to get him back after that attack on our Sal

[Diver]

Suppose pistol ammo in general is fairly low velocity, the 5.56mm stuff is so high velocity it tends to blow up on leaves & stuff... handy for use in a jungle...

Whereas the good old 7.62mm stuff just goes on & on & on...

Proponents of the intermediate power 5.56mm
have continuously compared their smaller cartridge to the large
full power 7.62mm. The results of these comparisons purportedly
show the superiority of the smaller ammunition in the areas of
penetration, lethality, weapon portability, and fire power.
Careful examinaton of these tests and the touted advantages of
the 5.56mm, however, shows that the 7.62mm is still potentially
superior to the smaller round. For example, in the NATO tests,
researchers have compared a modern, semi-armor piercing round of
ammunition (5.56mm) against a standard ball cartidge
(7.62mm) that has not been improved since its adoption in 1953.
An improved 7.62mm NATO, using the same technology as the
5.56mm, would definitely out-perform the smaller cartridge. With
respect to portability, second generation 7.62mm rifles are
smaller, more compact, and very comparable to certain 5.56mm
weapons. Concerning fire power, any full automatic fire with
light assault rifles, even with the low-recoil 5.56mm, is not
effective and only results in a waste of ammunition.

This is a paste of effort

[DS23]

<smirks> there's an awful lot of pasted effort here.