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Another book archived for your downloading and reading pleasure:

A Citizens' Guide To Taking Out Big Brother's Heavy Weapons by Ragnar Benson

Merely for amusement purposes of course. The book deals with a major tactical advantage of Team Government: they have tanks and various armored vehicles. An individual with body armor is plenty vulnerable but even a fancy AR is of limited utility against an armored vehicle.

That doesn’t mean they are invulnerable of course, nor are the guys driving them when they eventually get out of their vehicle.

All for entertainment purposes.

At the other end of spectrum, from tanks and APCS to the new face of warfare: drones

Tungsten Super Shot Could be Anti-Drone Shotgun Ammo

Hitting a moving target in the air is a lot more difficult than most people realize unless they have done bird hunting or extensively shot clay pigeons. I have done both and while it seems easy…it is not. Most people aim at moving targets as they would at a stationary target but when a target is moving you will miss if you aim at a point, instead you have to lead your target. Hard with a shotgun for most people, nigh impossible with a rifle or pistol regardless of what you see in Western movies.

The problem is that lead pellets (“bird shot”) have a pretty limited range and lose effectiveness quickly. The bigger the pellet, the longer the effective range in theory but then you start to lose lethality anyway. That is the point of the article, Tungsten Super Shot has better pattern and is more lethal at ranges where lead shot simply isn’t effective.

Ordinary lead shotgun loads have very limited range. The pellets are lead. Significant improvement could be made by using TSS shot in shotguns. TSS shot is very hard and very spherical. It is about 2/3 more dense than lead, about 18-18.5 grams per cubic centimeter. Lead is about 11.3 grams per cubic centimeter. Because of the hardness, symmetry and density, TSS holds tight patterns at long range, often with little choke. TSS #5 shot is considered to have enough energy at 105 yards to bring down geese. If it hits a vital component, it should have enough energy to disrupt small drones. There are 106 #5 TSS shot per ounce. It is easy to fit 1.5 ounces of TSS in an ordinary 2.75-inch 12-gauge shotgun shell. Tungsten has been used as a military projectile for years.

100 yards isn’t far away but it might as well be the moon with most lead shot. Even still, I have shot a fair number of birds and a whole lot of clay pigeons and I have little confidence of hitting a moving drone at 100 yards. The key is hitting a drone in that sweet spot between where you can actually hit it while not being so close that it kills you. If you think that when the adrenaline is flooding your system and a drone is heading toward you that you will calmly draw your Staccato 2011 and shoot it from the sky…please let me know so I can pick up your Staccato from your corpse.

These links provided all in good fun. Your mileage may vary, etc.