Marines duck hunting with 5.56mm?

GunPundit stumbled across a photo at Marines.mil with a caption that suggests that some Marines are hunting ducks with 5.56mm NATO rounds and/or 5.56mm blanks.

My take on it: They reckoned punt guns are pretty cool for duck hunting but rifle grenades (fired with a blank round) are even better!

(Just joking)

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Steve Dec 12th 2008 ammunition, hunting, military, rifles Tags: , , , , , 3 Comments

3 Responses to “Marines duck hunting with 5.56mm?”

  1. jdun1911on 12 Dec 2008 at 6:21 pm link comment

    Not a surprise. Hunters has been hunting small games with AR15 for a while.

  2. sigboy40on 13 Dec 2008 at 5:35 am link comment

    Am I the only guy that knows how to use a blank and make it deadly on small game?

  3. Peteon 31 Dec 2008 at 12:04 pm link comment

    Care to enlighten us?

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