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A 16 inch barrel AR15 version fired the 123 Lapua at Fort Knox on the 900 yard tank range and scored 6.5" groups at that distance.

Holy Accuracy, Batman! The hairs on your scope reticle subtend neatly that much. Unfortunately for the 6.5 Grendel it does look like the writing is on the wall in favour of the 6.8 SPC. The best cartridge always raises the question, for what? And the best cartridge doesn't always win. The .222 Rem, a cartridge now forgotten by all but varmint hunters, had some advantages over the .223 (i.e., longer neck for seating bullets). The British .280 certainly had advantages over the 7.62 NATO.... I had a 6mm x 45 CAR-15 once. More hassle than it was worth!

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There is no contest between the 6.5 Grendel and 6.8 SPC other then the one created on the internet.

Given the phone calls I have received from various military commanders wanting to learn about the 6.5 Grendel, the 6.8 SPC is far from having handwriting on the wall in favor of it. The idea that the 6.8 SPC will replace the 5.56 NATO is pure scuttlebutt and "marketing speculation".

It is quite telling that Remington released the 6.8 SPC cartridge at the SHOT show with very little emphasis and did not show a rifle chambered in the 6.8 SPC or announce a tenative date of any such release. Given that it would have taken Remington all of 2 days to have a Rem 700 in 6.8 SPC to show at the event, it is quite interesting they didn't have one.