Any AP Range Reports?

I was in a club in the 1960's and 70's that received a good deal of AP from DCM. We used to find those steel/tungsten cores around the butts where the rounds had impacted and come apart. My experience was that AP was very accurate... my brother was on the 4th Army ROTC team in the 1960 time frame at Perry and AP was what they used for their long range practice at Fort Hood before going to Perry.

From what I understand, after battle experience in Korea the US military went to AP for two reasons. The first was to penetrate the so called body armour of the Chinese which later turned out to be quilted clothing, and the second was the tungsten bullet although more expensive to produce retained it's energy and accuracy at range. I understand that the vast amount of ammo consumed in M1 rifles was this AP. Later, the same ammo was used for target because of the same qualities.

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Originally Posted by browningautorifle

From what I understand, after battle experience in Korea the US military went to AP for two reasons. The first was to penetrate the so called body armour of the Chinese which later turned out to be quilted clothing, and the second was the tungsten bullet although more expensive to produce retained it's energy and accuracy at range. I understand that the vast amount of ammo consumed in M1 rifles was this AP. Later, the same ammo was used for target because of the same qualities.

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I believe the standard round during the latter part of WWII was M2 AP as well.

I didn't know that. Makes sense if it was more accurate overall and it would give better penetration at distance, better energy retention at target.