Re: Use Winchester 30-30s in Iraq

"Bill Bonde ( the oblique allusion in lieu of the frontal attack )"
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> qwerty wrote:
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> > "> Morton Davis wrote:
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> > > > "Jeffrey C. Dege" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> > > > > On Mon, 01 Dec 2003 14:00:52 GMT, BlackWater <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > > > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jeffrey C. Dege) wrote:
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> > > > > >>But as for the AKs, they have their advantages.  But "knockdown"
> > power
> > > > > >>isn't one of them.  Neither is actually hitting a target more
than
> > 200
> > > > > >>yards away.
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> > > > > >   You can barely SEE a target 200 yards away through
> > > > > >   iron sights - especially in a dusty and/or smokey
> > > > > >   environment. 200 yard accuracy is just fine ...
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> > > > > Not in Afghanistan, it's not.
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> > > > 600 ft.?  Can the enemy regularly hit targets at 600 ft.?
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> > "Fuller said studies showed that most of the combat in Iraq has been in
> > urban
> > environments and that 95 percent of all engagements have occurred at
ranges
> > shorter than 100 yards"
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> Urban combat. This isn't a surprise, is it?

I didn't say otherwise, but it puts the 600 ft requirement above in it's
proper context of irrelevance.