Fair enough. Nonetheless, you cannot back up your claim of false quotes, or mis-characterizations with even one example. Nuff said.
Maybe not, but in insisting a "witness" described a different rifle as being discovered in the TSBD and insisting that a one line description of same without any further elaboration constitues "proof," your credibilty suffers.
On that note, the above page I visited and referred to also threw up an interesting argument impugning the judgement of another Wound Ballistic Research lab employee, Dr. Martin Fackler.
The writer suggests that Fackler was fundementally wrong when he described the penetrative effect of the 6.5 Carcano round.
The various 6.5 military rounds (including the Carcano) have a singular ability to penetrate soft targets - the sectional density of the rounds is high, meaning they carry more energy downrange than similar weight projectiles of larger diameter.
http://www.chuckhawks.com/rifle_SD_list.htm
Currently, there is a newish caliber (6.5 Grendel) that is designed to take advantage of that feature, and increase the effectiveness of the M16 platform while retaining all the basic parts of the host rifle, other than magazine and bolt.
There are many 6.5mm "wildcat" cartridges designed to take advantage of the hugh SD of the projectile, primarily for long range (1000 yds) target use:
http://www.chuckhawks.com/6-5-284_6-5RemMag.htm
One of the most successful Elephant and other big game hunters of all time relyed upon two caliber rifles, the 7mm x 57mm Mauser and the 6.5mm x 54mm Mannlicher:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._D._M._Bell
The 6.5 M cartridge is the same basic round as the Carcano, with a 1mm longer case and different shoulder angle iirc.
The writer of the information at the link argues from incredulity that a 6.5mm round could perform in the way the so-called "magic bullet" did, but offers -0- evidence in support of his position, other than arguments from individuals that did not examine the bullet, and provided no counter evidence for the assertion.
I've have many years behind me on rifles, a good bit of iit working with cartridges in the 6.5 class (6.5 Swedish Mauser 6.5 x 55 primarily) in both bolt guns and the semi-auto AG42 (one of the first direct inpingment gas operating systems, as in the M16/AR15) and have taken game with the cartridge as well - standard military ball FMJ projos perform excellently in penetration of anything short of actual steel armor.
In short, assertions but nothing to document and support the alternative theory.