Stopping Power by Caliber Part 2

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I am not suggesting a pistol caliber as a requirement.

I understand that. What concerned me is that you are bringing pistol-caliber performance into the requirement.

I make the observation that the rate of incapacitation for these bullets is likely high enough that a rifle producing similar results out at 500 meters would make a good threshold.

Perhaps. It just seems to me that it'll confuse the matter.

Further, the principal requirement for Tony's quest is to reduce the ammunition, magazine, and link weight while getting close to the same effectiveness. Requiring that the new cartridge do the same in all aspects as the 7.62 M80 effectively causes the search to collapse into a statement that the 7.62 M80 is the round of choice.

So why not specify 5.56 M855 @ 500 meters as the threshold?