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[-] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I think Trump and the secret service keeps getting lucky that his assailants are idiots regarding their weapon choice. This guy was 300-500 yards away and had an AK.

An AK is a 4-5 MOA rifle at best, so even with perfect optics, a perfect shooter, no wind, and a steady position, you're looking at a precision of 2 feet at 500 yards, and that's ignoring that precision gets progressively worse at range.

At 500 yards, a 7.62x39 round has gone subsonic, lost 80% of its muzzle energy, and dropped 30 feet.

Anything under 1000 ft/lbs of ~~torque~~ force isn't considered powerful enough to ethically hunt a whitetail deer. At 500 yards, a 7.62x39 has less than a third of that energy. It's enough to be lethal, but not consistently.

And all that is the starting point for the first shot. It gets worse firing semi-auto.

[-] Bytemeister@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago
[-] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Force. Brain fart.

Was working on the tractor this weekend.

I'm not sure there's an ethical way to kill a deer with torsion.

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