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Bolt guns are going to 300 Win Mag. At least in SOF units, but big army seems to follow those developments with a few years to catch up.
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Somehow that doesn't surprise me. the 300 winmag is supposed to be accurate to what... 1200m? The only thing surprising about that is the fact that they aren't moving to 338 Lapua.
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HK 416 claims 3-4 times as many rounds fired without stoppage, not 1/4 the chance of stoppage.
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my mistake.
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Grendel was never under serious consideration by any military unit.
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The Grendel was under consideration by the military the same time as the SPC. what they found was the SPC offered no ballistic advantage over the 5.56mm cartridge, but the Grendel offered nearly identical ballistics to the 308 round out to 800 yards, with just slightly more recoil than the 5.56mm. I have not heard any updates since that report, but there is still muffled talk on the military sniper forums about 6.5 Grendel chambered rifles still in use.