I will be very interested to see and read the results of this. I continually hear that the 5.56 will over penetrate but that just doesn't make sense to me. A light bullet at high velocity will scrub its energy off much faster when hitting hard objects than a slow heavier (handgun) bullet. Analogy: a semi truck hits a brick wall at 60 mph vs a Ferrari hitting a brick wall at 90 mph....which will be destroyed and which will keep going.
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hatidua
I went and bought some supplies at Home Depot to make a bunch of "walls" that closely mimic what most houses are made out of in my neighborhood (drywall on the inner walls, plywood/siding on the outer walls) and lined 4-6 of these 'walls' up in a row to see how much penetration each of nearly 20 different ammo types would accomplish. I found the experiment to be worth the time involved.
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