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The photo above and the passage below are from TacBlog.

clean 5.56 wound in a patients calf. One thing many people don’t talk about is the lack of traumatic damage the round inflicts on targets. This is something many have noted returning from combat and something I personally witnessed from a patient who had a range mishap. Even shot placement in critical areas doesn’t cause enough trauma to put someone down right away. Anyone who has been deployed can attest to the round’s lack of immediate stopping power, often witnessing targets getting hit and still able to maneuver to cover and return fire before succumbing to wounds later.

The benefit of being a civilian is the ability to use Barnes 36 grain Varmint Grenade and Nosler’s 55 grain Varmageddon.
Yeah it depends on on the bullet, it can ice pick or frag like a grenade. M855 is a round designed for a different era. I’ve see wounds from m193 that are catastrophic.

If all our enemies...heck even if most of them were equipped with body armor the way that we are then the M855 is a no brainer.

But they aren't.

I need to chew on this one a bit.  Use a light, extremely fast bullet or one that can punch through car doors without drama?  I just don't know.