Info request on Swedish 7.62SNIPER round

[DJBolin]

Anyone using the FMV's 7.62SNIPER round (The Winchester/Olin accelerator round pushing out an M855 IMI round)that should have been delivered in late '99 and pressed into service there after?

What type of performances are you seeing?
Any data tables available?

[Snow]

Is this what you are looking for? http://www.fmv.se/index.asp?K=005011004&L=UK

[Linus]

Where are you posting from, DJ?

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[DJBolin]

Snow, Thanks for the URL! I came across it about 2 weeks ago and found it very interesting to read. Has some good information in it.

I have had the opportunity to use the US commercial version, The Accelerator, and found them to be very accurate. Major problem I am seeing is keyholeing at 350 - 500 Mtrs in light winds. Seems to me that if the axis is off on the 5.56 round in the sabot any degree it will destabilize then keyhole every time! I personally have only fired off 3 to 4 boxes of 20. That number of rounds isn't in my opinion enough to make an educated decision on it or the newer Military version. So, What I am interested in actual data tables and contents of data books given to frontline sniper who is expected to use these rounds in the field. Nothing that the government doesn't want broadcast but useable field and performance data. I have seen the Computer sims data . . . . not really field data.

Thanks

DJ

Linus, I live in the US Northeastern Pennsylvania, USA.

[Linus]

A few weeks ago I was down at the firing range of a garrison here in Stockholm with an officer friend who works there. We were pretty much just playing around, wasting huge amounts of ammo and I asked him about the AP round. At first he became really hesitant, asking if I'd shot it and how I'd come to hear of it and no, they hadn't got it yet bla-bla-bla. Eventually, though, he admitted they had it and that their snipers were training with it. I knew all this already because he was putting up a front like I'd been asking about what positions he'd do his mother in and "he had no idea what I was talking about" http://www.specialoperations.com/ubboard/rolleyes.gif although only last year he'd been a sniper instructor. It was all obvious BS and the guy ain't too good an actor and upon realizing this he came clean about it all. The place he works at attracts some of the worst trash in the army as well as some of the most motivated because of its proximity to the capital. There were a couple of turkish guys there who'd volunteered for national service just so they wouldn't have to do it in Turkey. Needless to say theese guys weren't all that motivated (a couple of them were afraid of the dark and one of them of being alone as well, apparently resulting in some really interresting radio traffic during the small hour watches...) http://www.specialoperations.com/ubboard/wink.gif and the place is crawling with obscure characters from the Projects who just wanna go somewhere not to far from home, or their "business" http://www.specialoperations.com/ubboard/mad.gif. So my friend and his collegues were understandably nervous that if word got out on the street this kind of ammo was readily available just a couple of miles outside of town they'd have nocturnal "visits" skyrocket as well as The Shady Bunch putting the pressure on the snipers to deliver the goodies, not to mention the horror of a couple of guys barricaded with a ton of coke, fast at work stuffing the clips of their H&K G3's with AP rounds... http://www.specialoperations.com/ubboard/eek.gif

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[DJBolin]

I use an M40A3 in .300WM and was told that it will soon be available in that Calabre (62Gr M855 round pushed to 4650fps!). Can't wait for that to happen so i will have a friend handload 100 or so rds for me to PLAY with this next weekend! (Made to military specs is was told!)