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To: Hazwaste

I disagree with the poster who said it’s not high powered. The 7.62 round is a big round. But it definitely isn’t an assault rifle. Did the one he used have a hi-cap mag?


137 posted on 12/07/2007 6:44:26 AM PST by demshateGod (Huckabee, at least he's not Fred Thompson)
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To: demshateGod
I disagree with the poster who said it’s not high powered.

In the firearms community, 7.62x39 is considered an intermediate cartridge of a little more than half the ft-lbs (~1800) of a high-powered cartridge, and about twice the ft-lbs of a .45 pistol round. Physically, it's significantly smaller in length than the Russian high-powered round 7.62x54R, which if I remember correctly hits with about 2900 ft-lbs, on par with an American 30.06 or .308.

Still makes people just as dead though.

142 posted on 12/07/2007 7:25:03 AM PST by Hazwaste (Now with added lemony freshness!)
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To: demshateGod
"The 7.62 round is a big round. But it definitely isn’t an assault rifle."

Excellent! You get a gold star! :)

147 posted on 12/07/2007 10:22:51 AM PST by spunkets ("Freedom is about authority", Rudy Giuliani, gun grabber)
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