Hornady 110 grain .308 TAP, penetration?

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DRT makes a metal powder round in .308 and I have no idea how it performs. I'd imagine it still takes a lot of drywall to stop it.
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JAE wrote:DRT makes a metal powder round in .308 and I have no idea how it performs. I'd imagine it still takes a lot of drywall to stop it.
Some/many of the powdered metal rounds are designed to penetrate through a solid dry object and splatter when they hit a wet (flesh) object. I am not sure how well that translates on a rifle round, but I know some pistol ones make that claim, specifically regarding windshields.
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I'm just not feeling a .308 for across-the-room defense, especially in an apartment. A shotgun with heavy bird shot (think lead #4) would be better.
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Yeah, I'm no more interested in that loud of a crack indoors than I am shooting my .357 indoors.

A 12 ga low recoil #4 buckshot round will git 'er done and not take as much of your hearing with it.
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PawPaw wrote:I'm just not feeling a .308 for across-the-room defense, especially in an apartment. A shotgun with heavy bird shot (think lead #4) would be better.
Yes, seems like trying to use .308 indoors is missing out on all the experience and developments of oh, the past 100 years or so. The ones that led to the submachine gun (PCC to those of us without the 'extra happy' setting on the happy switch) and the intermediate power rifle round and the assault rifle to chamber it.

If you're going to be close up, you might want something better suited to being close up than full power battle rifle.
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I wandered by the ammo case at Wally World. Very strange. No .22 LR, no surprise, had .223 in some heavy bullets and a couple of boxes of .300 Black Out. They had some 7.62 X 54. But what was really weird was no 7.62 X 39 MM what so ever.
Shot gun ammo wasn't to bad, they had some low recoil military style buck shot. :?:
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toad wrote:Shot gun ammo wasn't to bad, they had some low recoil military style buck shot. :?:
That low-recoil shotgun ammo is really nice. Nice tight groups at 25 yards, it keeps all the pellets in the kill zone of a B27 target. You give up some initial velocity to get the low recoil, but nine .30 cal balls is going to leave a mark when they hit you in the chest. It's what I carry in my cruiser shotgun, and I'm very confident with it.
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