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From: msmith@One World Telecom. (509) 735-0408 (Mark D. Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: CSC AK-47
Date: 5 Oct 1995 19:38:36 GMT
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J Wunsch (j@uriah.heep.sax.de) wrote:
: >: I still find that a few 7.62mb transfers out of my M1A (Which the Marine
: >: Corps Armourers overclocked for me last year at Camp Perry) at 200,300 and
: >: 600yards is quite fun and relaxing.  My only problem has been that the
: >: signal gets a little weak at 1000yds.
: >
: >I believe the M1 Garand does a little better at 1000 yards.

: Can you translate the "yards" into something human-readable? :-)

OK, I believe on THAT side of the ocean, 1000 yards comes out to 
be something like 914.4 meters.  So the M1A and M1 Garands have a 
packet size of 7.62mm and the AR-15 has a size of 5.56mm and all
are trying to transfer them out to 914m.  As you can see, the signal
tends to be a little weak at that end of the range, er, cable.

Mark