ORIGINAL: footballplaya
ok, first off let me say i WILL NOT DO THIS SO DON'T SET FIRE TO MY HOUSE.. here's the question.. sort of.. a .223/5.56 FMJ will go straight through an entire car(did it at the police academy, do not argue w/ me on this).. so if it'll go through a car, it will undoubtedly go through both shoulders of an elk/moose.. if it will go through both shoulders, wouldn't it break both shoulders rendering the animal w/ 2 broken shoulders and unable to run??
After seeing what the hip joint bone of a 120-pound deer will stop,I would not be willing to bet that the 5.56mm would penetrate as well as you think it would in a big animal like a moose or elk. Nor could you count on it to break either shoulder. It would be more likely to make a .224" hole in the bone, if that......