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To: SandRat
Buckshot, flechette, HE, buckshot, flechette, HE.

Reload.

Now if they could fill those 40MM rounds with willy pete......

L

38 posted on 03/10/2006 5:10:04 PM PST by Lurker (Cuz I got one hand in my pocket and the other one is slapping a hippy.)
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To: Lurker
Now if they could fill those 40MM rounds with willy pete...

There is a 40m WP smoke/mark WP round. At least there was last time I shot an M79, about 1982.

The most common round these days is the HEDP (and the next most common is the training/practice round, with a blue plastic ogive and full of orange marking powder -- it doesn't have the steel weight in it any more), but there have been dozens of kinds of 40mm round.

The British called a 37mm AT gun they used in WWII a "two pounder." (The US used the same thing and called it 37mm). So we could reckon the thing that way, in weight of cannon ball rather than as gauge, which is size of cannonball.

d.o.l.

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103 posted on 03/11/2006 7:47:13 AM PST by Criminal Number 18F
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