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Default Opinion of Ruger Mini 14 .223?

"Ed Huntress" wrote in
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There was a velocity issue with the original loadings, too, IIRC. The
version the Air Force accepted did not meet general Pentagon
requirements for service-rifle velocity. Supposedly, that's why there
was a change in ammo.


The "velocity issue" was that the IMR powder pushed those itty-bitty
bullets so fast that, upon impact, the projectiles would "keyhole" and,
thus, create more devastating wounds than the slower-velocity BALL
powder loadings.

When this difference was mentioned to McNamara's Finest, they panicked
and started screaming "instability" and "inaccuracy" since they would
never (even in their wildest nightmares) stoop so low as to actually
observe the phenomena much less make any attempt at discovering the
facts.

Besides which, Olin didn't load IMR powder and Remington didn't load BALL
powder. Thus Remington got the Rifle Contract and Olin got the AMMO
Contract - and everybody made money hand-over-fist.