SOCOM is adopting the 6.5 Creedmoor starting 2019
>strategypage.com
So how do ya'll suppose this will affect the civilian market of 6.5 and 7.62 in America? (Army will conduct tests in 2022)
How butthurt are you .30 cal shills?
Mememoor no longer
Jaxon Russell
James Wilson
They're still behind the curve. The new meme is .224 Valkyrie.
Jordan White
>being 5 years late to the meme boat
>ship has been sailed, refurbished, and then scrapped into razor blades
Blake Stewart
6.5 is literally the 50th iteration of a 6mm cartridge that always fizzle out - it is a decent round past 800 yards but nothing amazing. The .308 Winchester is going nowhere because of obvious energy advantage under 500 yards. As a decision for a rifle caliber it doesn’t make a lot of sense to me. The .300 Win Mag is better all around out to 1000 yards but the military has not made a smart decision in the last 20 years so what should I care.
Adrian Gomez
This is not new news. This is at least months if not almost a year old. Why do you care?
Austin Gomez
If I recall they started testing a year ago but only just made the official decision.
I want cheap surplus ammo obviously.
Christopher Bennett
.308 Doesn't have an energy advantage you tard. When shooting different projectiles from the same case, the total muzzle energy is equivalent. And it has greater energy at range because if your idea is to shoot 140-150gr projectiles 6.5mm yields a higher BC than .30.
This of course is totally ignoring the fact that .308s energy at vlose ranges means jackshit for terminal performance, which is why we left it behind years ago. .308 only survives now for its longer effective range.
Wyatt Gutierrez
So if im reading the article correctly, they only plan on adopting this for their DMR's or sniper platforms, and nothing else that uses 7.62
Wow, gg op, you sure showed us, might as well dump all my .308 down a sewer drain
Ryder Martin
.308 is actually a really good machine gun cartridge. And having belt feds that have better barrier penetration is probably what kept it around more than its use in precision rifles.
Jayden Edwards
.308 doesn't have enough energy for barrier penetration. I keep seeing that here. What cover could you possibly penetrate with a .308 that you couldn't decently with 5.56? Concrete? Nope. Adobe? Hell no. Trees? Maybe if they are small, but then they aren't even concealment anyways. What mythical barrier are you on about?