New Cartridge Developments and Implications for Dismounted Infantry Soldiers

[Tony Williams]

Basically, I'm thinking of testing the 140's versus the M80 ball at 500m, 600m, and 700m on some common mediums. Then we could work backwards in bullet weights with 6.5's if the 140's prove superior to the 147gr 7.62.

That sounds great, but it might be as well to spread the ranges somewhat to give a more complete picture: something like 200m, 500m and 800m. Logically, the performance of the 6.5mm relative to the 7.62mm should get steadily better with increasing range.

That 6.5x25 is an answer to all my concealed carry dreams.

One of my favourite guns is the B&T MP9 in 6.5x25. I had the chance to shoot it in Sweden a couple of years ago (Carl-Bertil Johansson invited me over, because I had suggested that it might be a good combination). I wrote an article about it which was published in the Fall 2010 Small Arms Defense Journal. There's also a brief note about it at the end of this article: http://www.quarry.nildram.co.uk/PDWs.htm

I have that piece of armour with a hole blown through it on my desk (see below):