Am 10.12.2013 um 08:42 schrieb Mike Adams <[email protected]>: > […]Also they can penetrate things, as seen by a 50 cal/12.7mm rifle going > through a concrete bunker and taking out the man behind the walls before he > could set off an IED or like device..[…]
Yes, .50 BMG may go through concrete, even through steel - or it may not go through. With something massive (or fluid) between you and your target, any shot gets more and more unpredictable, no matter which calibre you are using (of course, for a 120 mm Tank grenade, it does not matter: you blast the whole wall away, and *that* will kill the man behind …) > > […] One shot, one kill. "One hit, one kill“ is more to real life. 9 out 10 using a .50 Barrett at first time will not hit a car within 50 m range with it, and 8 of them need to see the dentist’s after. For a .800 Holland & Holland, the „teeth toll“ is still significant even for experienced shooters, but an occasional hit will even take out an Elephant bull (what the rifle is originally built for). When it comes to „trained“ shooters, even then the results gets really bad at distances above 300 m, with smaller calibers also. Most snipers I talked to in the past confessed that in combat the shot/hit ratio on longer distances go down to 3 to 1, 5 to 1 or even worse (on human sized targets, of course). Only US snipers do hit with each round … There are 101 possible reasons for a miss, and several are not under the control of the shooter, but distance and calibre do increase some them. That still does not disprove your original argument, but there is a difference between effectivity and efficiency when it comes to guns and there calibers that should always be kept in mind. -- Thomas Thrien Geo 51° 28' 12" N 7° 32' 17" E Es heißt, der Klügere gibt nach. Doch wenn die Klügeren immer nachgeben, dann passiert nur noch, was die Dummen wollen … Of course it has a meaning when a black cat crosses your way from left to right … It means, that the cat, coming from your left, wants to go somewhere right from you ..._______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
