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News flash: Soldier of Fortune this month reports that the 6.8mm cartridge has been approved for use by Spec-Ops types, and is currently used in a rebarreled M-4 carbine mod. Reportedly, the round is VERY popular with the snakeaters, as those shot with it tend to stay that way.

The article was the first of a two-part series on the round, and mentioned that the bullet itself was based on the .270 Winchester, while the case was derived from the Remington .30. no data on powder or primers, sorry, that was classified still.

All in all, a positive development, as such "special-purpose" rounds have a way of becoming standard issue after a while. Must be why the XM-8, at last word, is designed to be easily convertible to this 6.8mm. We might begin this century with an all-new rifle AND cartridge in place, only a few years late.

News flash: Soldier of Fortune this month reports that the 6.8mm cartridge has been approved for use by Spec-Ops types, and is currently used in a rebarreled M-4 carbine mod. Reportedly, the round is VERY popular with the snakeaters, as those shot with it tend to stay that way. The article was the first of a two-part series on the round, and mentioned that the bullet itself was based on the .270 Winchester, while the case was derived from the Remington .30. no data on powder or primers, sorry, that was classified still.

The bullet is a .276. See the circa-1950 British EM-2, or the American post-WWI .276 Pedersen, from circa 1925, the same period that gave us the M1911A1 modifications to Browning's M1911 pistol and the 1927 boattailed 172-grain national match bullet loading for the .30-06 cartridge. Thank you, General Hatcher....

All in all, a positive development, as such "special-purpose" rounds have a way of becoming standard issue after a while. Must be why the XM-8, at last word, is designed to be easily convertible to this 6.8mm. We might begin this century with an all-new rifle AND cartridge in place, only a few years late.

Like the 7x57mm bolt-action Mauser we COULD have adopted folowing the Spanish-American War, so successful that it remained in Spanish service until the 1970s, and still labours on in some backwater policia and Guardia Civil weapons racks. And then we might not have bothered with the M1 Garand....

We might begin this century with an all-new rifle and the cartridge we could have adopted in 1903, or at least a shortened version thereof...or in 1930...or 1950.

6.8MM SPC is a mirror ballistic wise to the .270 JDJ which has been around for decades. Glad someone pulled their heads out of the ass and asked the wildcat reloaders and hunters what works !

I have a thompson contender barrel from SSK in that caliber and it works very well. My Order will be in ASAP for an upper for my AR lower.......:o)

Stay Safe LC !

If you would like to see a ballistics chart comparing the 6.5 Grendel to the 5.56 NATO, 7.62 NATO and 6.8 Rem SPC, email me at akb@competitionshooting.com and I will email back a pdf file for your review.