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Old 09-29-2006, 09:45 PM  
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I spent a few hundred thousand rounds of .50 cal when I was in the Marine Corps. It does a lot of damage, but not like that and not one at a time unless it's a .50 cal sniper rifle. I've never shot one personally, but I've been on the range when they were shooting them. They're the same rounds that are in the .50 machine guns and they didn't seem to do anything different.

I think that's a MK-19. It's a .40mm fully-automatic grenade launcher. You can fire it one at a time like that and the range is incredible. It makes a lot more sense for the explosion and flying bits and pieces.
Think I saw a show about the rifle they are using there either on discovery or tlc. They were blowing apart solid cinder blocks apart with it, and puncturing armored metal. The round actually explodes upon impact. Its the show where the guy tests all kind of weapons out. Not sure what it actually was though, I came in part way through on it.
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