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Originally Posted by hogie
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.
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Ok, a little more in depth than what I had heard. Basically they said that the 7.62 was going to be used as a training tool for their snipers but real world be be the 6.5CM, jump to the 300WM, and then the 338Lapua, and then the 50.