223 vs 5.56: Can’t Believe The Difference 

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I've got a match ! Your face & my ..... 😂

He could be a relation of Ray Romano.

It's because it isn't his real voice.

KGB

Aaaannnd, next on stage two is Angela. She's a community college student who is almost done with her nursing degree!

I thought he sounds like Ray Romano

Yeah he has a golden deep baritone

Has resonance and timbre but no professional training. His delivery would not make it on radio without some good training and practice. Reminds me of Ray Romano...

​@@45johngaltI was thinking the brother

Absolutely correct. Throat erosion & over pressure is real.

Totally, it's all in how you're chambered kid...

Well put.

as someone who has worked for a self defense and rifle fighting school and seen millions of rounds go through our loaner rifles i can without a doubt say that it doesnt matter not one bit.

Not always true. The Ruger Mini-14 is an exception, going all the way back to the 180-series guns.

He is definitely stepping up the comedy, the waiter bit…

I agree, he has the voice of a radio disc jockey.

do you think the throat angle would have mattered? dudes shooting at pretty much max velocity while being safe.

Right on

Exactly. Velocities are from two different barrel lengths. Jackets on military grade projectiles are typically thicker than civilian equivalents. It's quite possible the lead alloy in the core is different too. Sometimes, even USGI ammo will have bimetal jackets.

​@donwyoming1936 this is all kinds of false

@@unclefreedom213 Please elaborate

Definitely false. Too many cnn reporters on here.

Why do you like it better?

Well, that, and the staked primers, thicker brass webbing, .002” longer neck, and longer OAL in comparison to a true .223. My old 60’s bolt .223 has a proper chamber and will not feed 5.56. If you do jam it in, once fired, you force the bolt open, slip off the extractor from the case head, and have to rod the empty case out. Leade distance is longer with a 5.56. But with today’s muddled market, civilian ammo has pretty much morphed into the same.

@@blackhawk7r221 I’m not talking about chamber dimensions, only what is required to label the loaded ammunition either 5.56 or .223 rem. Even the difference in brass and staking the primer doesn’t matter.

A gun geek says what?

M995 is virtually unobtainable for 99.9% of people

False

lol

100% It compresses when struck, makes a great barrier.

Filling the walls of my compound as we speak! In Minecraft, of course.

It is EXTREMELY effective at stopping all kinds of serious stuff. During the war in Iraq, we would fill "Hesco Bastions" with sand off the ground and put them around our FOB (Forward Operating Base) to create a barrier. It's just a metal cage with this fabric-type material that will hold the sand inside. They can stop mortar rounds, artillery, up to 30mm weapons, massive trucks, high explosives, etc. and it's just sand. Pretty impressive stuff. Saved me a couple times.

Facts bro, still surprised me that sand can hold a lot of builds in a close space. Just imagine a whole all built of sand

Indeed This is true!

I was about to mention the same, although I would take the lengths further down, at least for 5.56. Usually 5.56 barrels are 14"-16". Then the higher pressure/bigger powder load on 5.56 cannot compensate for the lot longer .223 barrel used for the data on the boxes.

@@juhanivalimaki5418 I've seen upwards of 3,500 fps from M193 coming out of my 22" bolt gun, so they still do gain velocity. :D

@@juhanivalimaki5418 current popular barrel length trends are are outliers for the original design of these cartridges. I get your point. But, whatever results these tests produce with 18 to 20" barrels, shorter barrels by default are going produce worse not better.

As a member of the "disarmed for your own safety" society in the EU, I enjoy the additional info provided by such comments. Sadly - firearms is a "book only" hobby for me :(

He won’t shoot it on steel, he will just put it on his only fans page😤

@@saltymofo5870 If he wanted a bunch to shoot at different steels etc etc, if be happy to provide them.

Does that round perform good with a shorter barrel? Let’s say a 7.5” barrel?

​@emacstacticalcom4105 Are those rounds for sale? I would like to test some out on different types of metal and wood

Seriously Emacs thank you SO MUCH for giving him your ammo for the reviews. You all are freaking amazing. The next time I need something, I’ll be checking your website first.

Haha I hear a lil Plankton too!

😅😂. Yes. Definitely. Lol

I bet wet sand is even better?

Oh, that sweet, sweet earth...

​@@bryanst.martin7134Mass and density. Water filling in the tiny spaces between grains of sand should help.

@@TUKByV It should also reduce the sand spilling out of the hole. There is another form of barrier, Glycol mixed with Fumed silica. Flexible till struck at high velocity, then it instantly crystalizes.

@@bryanst.martin7134 Oh, yeah. Heard about that some years ago. Did anyone market it?

WELL GET TOOO IT SON! lololol jokes aside that's a good point

Great point. Size matters

they are tested out of a testing action, not a gun per say.

Really says something about the quality of your videos that we're here in 2024 watching 5.56 v. .223 videos and enjoying them.

223 is not annealed looks as your 223 is a reload or not a 223.check it out for your self 😮

Or what if he was already on Helium ?? 😳

His voice is just pure bass frequencies without it@@waylonmccrae3546

He takes a few gulps of Sulfur Hexafluoride between takes. The stuff would make your mother sound like James Earl Jones.@@waylonmccrae3546

@@waylonmccrae3546lol

Now that's a test he needs to do

This was my thought. I think the benefits of 556 might show a little out at a distance. But is it enough to really matter?

@@diver0129 SAME. DAMN. CARTRIDGE.

I second the jamming part on the AR platform with the 223 vs 556. Heard you can compensate with adjustments to the recirc gas pressure and buffer weights but I was just thinking- why not just use .556 rounds and eliminate the problem without gun surgery, ya know?

@@CarlSmithers It's NOT. Thus the comparison. The differences are minor, but they are there.

What are you, a scientist?

@@guins99 Science is for everyone.

Chambering makes a big difference with these. I can absolutely confirm a difference with running 5.56 chamber along side .223 wylde. The velocity difference shows at point of impact.

@@rebeljamieson3414 yeah i didnt get it for a long time. the 223 chamber is "tighter" and "shorter" so it makes for a more accurate rifle, and the 556 is "looser" for reliability. Thats why 556 is loaded hotter to make up for the big ole chamber.

This debate is because of lazy/amateur people. Mostly lazy. And also military complex, thinking everything military must be better, no. The 223 is more tight and thus accurate. The advantage 556 has is that u can shoot both rounds out of 556 rifle but only 223 out of 223 rifle. I understand this is too complex for some.

New segment called “it’s time to flap disk” lol

@@bananaballistics Permatex makes a rust converter in a spray can. 🙂

Evaporust works quite well, and is non-toxic, supposedly. Probably best to not drink it. It works faster when a little warmer, but if you have the time, just let them soak for a couple days. I am sure you can find videos explaining it in more depth.

@@andrewb6 Can confirm, not tasty but quite effective!

To quote some old guntuber, "Is there a difference? Yeah. Is it enough of a difference to MAKE a difference? You be the judge."

It's really not though... if you want for a sale they're essentially the same price.

The idea behind the adoption of the sub-calibre 5.56mm NATO round is rather less noble than you intimate. The intention (among other motives) was to inflict serious wounds rather than kill outright, the thinking being that the care of a wounded soldier costs your enemy far more in time, resources and manpower than simply burying a corpse and replacing it with a fresh live body. Those are the cynical calculations indulged in my our military leaders. I don't know how it worked out in practice though. It always sounded like the thinking of an accountant rather than a real soldier.

@@bernarddavis1050 This was some of the reasoning back in the 1960s. The way I heard it was that the round was mostly meant to wound. That way it would take 3 combatants off the battle field. The wounded man and two to carry him. I don't know who came up with that and I think it might have been like a selling point. The US Army had adopted the M-14, basically a modified WWII M-1 rifle that fired an intermediate round. A shortened .30-06 that Winchester made. The .308 in civilian caliber and the 7.62 X 51 mm for the military. (The .30-06 would be in metric 7.62 X 63 mm.) This happened back in 1957 and they worked hard to make it the standard NATO round. Being shorter, Soldiers could carry more ammo. Eugene Stoner made the now famous ArmaLite AR-15 (developed into the M-16) as a light rifle in a .22 caliber (.223) he wanted the Army to adopt. But the US Army had just adopted the M-14 and didn't think a .22 caliber was good for combat use. They really didn't want it and tried to fail it in tests. They had a tough time getting the NATO Nations to adpot the 7.62mm round and those countries had to make manufacturing facilities to adapt costing them big money. Money they really didn't have. Remember this was just after WWII and all of Europe was broke and trying to rebuild their bombed and burned out countries. Now in less than 10 years after they all adopted it, they want everyone to stop and addopt this new 5.56 mm costing the NATO Nations a ton of money to retool the newly built amao facilities. This also meant that small arms Companies would have to design and retool to manufacture new rifles for this new NATO round Add to it that Gen La May USAF Commander wanted the new rifle but with some mods. So you can see the problems and total cluster F---- the US Military was facing. There were pros and cons to both rifles and ammo. I'll probably get over 1000 replies about how the AR is the best rifle ever made by those that don't know anything about the development and problems with the M-16. However Stoner was in luck with the Kennedy (JFK) /Johnson (LBJ) admin with the bean counter Robert McNamara who was secretary of defense from 1961 to 1968. He basically mandated that the US Army adopt the new rifle and ammo. But to answer the second part of your question about how that worked out by reducing the manpower on the battle field. In reality it did nothing. We were involved heavily in the Vietnam war and they didn't play like the Europeans. If one of their soldiers got wounded they left them where they lay and if they were still alive when they came back they might care for them. One would have thought the US Military learned that lesson during WWII fighting in the Pacific. I have books on the development of military arms and served the military, though not in combat. But I also have many older friends that did serve in combat in Korea through Vietnam that have experience with those weapons. Including may friends that were in the the recent wars. But things change and so do people and weapons. There is always someone that tries to come up with the newest, greatest and shinny toy for the Military hoping to make it big. So the quest for the perfect killing weapon or machine will never end. At least for the foreseeable future. The 5.56 used in the current M-4 mod of the M-16 is being replaced, Ironically by a larger caliber, the 6.8 X 51 mm. Almost back to the 7.65 X 51 mm. This will becom the new NATO round. Don't get me wrong, we need the military and I loved my 40 year career, Active and Guard. Even at a young age I knew there would always be some idiot that wants to rule the world. Those young men and women in our Military deserve a lot of respect. They are the best in the world. During my time I served with the most talented, creative and smartest people I've ever known. The old Military saying "If it is necessary, it will be accomplished" is shown in the US people and the best are in the military. We just have to stop the woke idiots that want to bring the US into what Europe or the USSR became and stop this wokeness! Y'all stay safe.

@@EIBBOR2654 Thanks for that information; much appreciated. I wasn't going to specifically mention that cold-blooded accountant McNamara, but you did it for me. The evil that b... did...

Wow ,now I know why mi barrel is stamped 223 and the owner’s manual states do not use 5.56

Temporary work around: Download the video and replay it much slower on your computer. It helps sometimes.

didn't you hear? RU-vid introduced this fantastic feature. Its called pausing. all you have to do i click/tap in the middle of the video and it stops playing.

@@zachdemand4508😂

​@@firstnamerequiredlastnameo3473If you click on the cog thingy on the video you can change the playback speed

@@zachdemand4508 A pause feature? It's probably an add-on that costs an arm and a leg. No thanks, I'll just learn to read faster.

That was I was thinking and my only critique 😊

I had to go back and freeze the frame

Although this channel is ggod, there are a few that are many times better. At this point however, its not the stats that matter and the personality that people want. This is a younger channel, and will grow because the content is good. Once banana becomes more comfortable, and his knowledge expands, as well as funds, there will be no limit to his testing.

Thank you for the hard work in losing to farmers!

@@stopstealingmyname5794 'Losing to farmers.' Care to explain exactly WTF you meant by that, or is your utter lack of English language and Reading Comprehension insurmountable?

The difference may help when the varmints are behind a barrier. The M193 seems just a bit better at converting cover to just concealment.

@@AniwayasSong they are a troll. Don't give them any more of your time.

Hmm, and now it looks like you're "good to go" 👍

I think he is Ray Romano's son.

Are we ready to Rumble😅

He sounds just like Howard Stern....close your eyes and listen carefully!!! I swear, it's actually Stern😅

There was a cashier at our H.E.B. in my town and the guy used to talk like this. I would always get a kick out of it. I think his was that steroid voice though.

I have a 1in 7 and a 1 on 9 and so for anything from 55grn to 75grn shot the same from either 🤔

You can typically load most ammunition WAY hotter and faster than box ammunition because #1 manufacturers skimp on powder to save money #2 manufacturers want to prioritize low chamber pressures fpr safety reasons to avoid potentially damaging somebody's old rifle.

It’s best to reload your own to whatever speed you want and weight of bullets

@philliphall5198 been doing that for 40+ years

When I am lucky enough to have a free day on the farm lol, m+y day consists of scouring the dark web in the morning for reloading supplies lol, IYKYK.. then down to the Dungeon for casing prep... (the most fun you can have with your reloading experience btw), then to the press.... then to bench. Pew pew pew.. then back to the tumbler lol

Yep! Information that's practical, not just entertaining.

Yeah, they are magical. Goes through an Abrams.

223 Wylde chamber, it makes your AR more versatile

Every AR can shoot both rounds. .223 and 5.56 ar interchangeable! If you disagree find me a gun that doesn't have a custom chamber that can't shoot both rounds all day everyday without any problems...

fire formed. once the round ignites, it will conform to the chamber. I think the casing on a 556 is not the same as the case on a 223. the volume is different, I have loaded range drops of both and never noticed a dif, but I really wasn't looking; I was too busy plinking and having fun. This was done in the before times when ammo was inexpensive. @@xephael3485

@xephael3485 thanks,I'm definitely no pro.i really didn't know all ARs shot both rounds

@@Herecomesthethruth It's possible you might run into accuracy issues with a .223 "chambered" firearm firing higher grain 5.56 but unlikely. Chamber the round and remove it... if you don't see any marks on the bullet from the lands, you're 100% fine.

Look up run on sentence

​@@HWG-wm8ldor even punctuation