PEOPLE, PEOPLE
***PLEASE***
It's a PRESSURE difference, NOT a cartridge case dimension difference!!!!!!
Let me demonstrate it another way. You have a revolver, chambered for 38Special, which it says. You have a pocket full of cartridges loaded to 38, and some with the headstamp 38+P. Now, both the 38 and 38+P are dimensionally the SAME. Always were, always will be. Is it safe to shoot those +P through your gun? Maybe, maybe not. To be safe, you need a gun that is rated for 38+P, right?
SAME LOGIC APPLIES TO .223 and 5.56mm NATO, with the added complication of gas pressure and bolt/carrier velocity!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
IT'S A PRESSURE THING, MAN!!!!!!!
Now, go back and read Mountain and my first posts, as well as those by dz.
Tom
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[This message has been edited by Banzai (edited August 02, 2000).]