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Originally Posted by Scottmisfits
There has to be something behind it if the US military is looking at dropping the 7.62 NATO round in favor of it.
I’ll be looking at a lighter weight stainless hunting rig soon. It will be on my short list. So is a 308 and a 7-08.
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Not really dropping the 7.62 they are still going to use it. Looking at certain elite units switching to a 6.5 round. They also were looking at going back to 7.62 over 5.56 as a standard round last year or so. They also are looking at 300 Norma mag for applications. They resurrected the M14 platform as a marksman rifle. Doubt they will ever just be done with 7.62.
Hornady did a very good job in marketing. It is popular because snipers hide website really pushed it for them as a competition round for PRS. It would be interesting to see if it actually been as popular without that website . 6.5 were being used before but it was really the creedmore that pushed them mainstream in the last years.