The mother of all shotgun shells

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AlanM
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The mother of all shotgun shells

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This is totally off the subject of concealed carry but I just ran across this in Quora and have to share it.

The question was: Has an M1 Abrams ever been used against infantry?
Here's the response:

This is the M1028.
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It is a shotgun shell for the M1. It has 1100 tungsten balls designed to make any infantry on the recieving end have a bad day. Optimal spread occurs between 200 M and 500 M with the design to eliminate >50% of an advancing infantry squad.

Before and after at a range

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A bad day for infantry. :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock:

Original source:https://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/200 ... ank-m1028/
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Re: The mother of all shotgun shells

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That's a good use of a shotgun!

When we were filming at Antietam for a Civil War documentary, we loaded a cannon with the grapeshot load that would've been used against advancing infantry and fired it into a cornfield planted just for the film. The devastation was complete, it fanned right out and mowed down nearly every stalk of corn out to 50 yards and then thinned out to 100 yards. That pretty much took care of Pickett's Charge at Gettysburg nine months later.
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Yep, after I posted that I thought about grape shot.
Just the thought of being on the wrong side of either one gives me the heebie-jeebies.
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