Thread: 6.5CM craze

SOCOM did a test on 6.5 CM vs. 7.62 NATO and 6.5 has much tighter groups, less wind drift, carries more energy and accuracy at 1000 metres and has more terminal distance.

So it's being adopted for it's semi auto designated marksman rifles and now for it's machine guns and nope this one is not a craze. It does the job better than 7.62 NATO/308 Win with no downside to it.

Does that make 308 Win/7.62 NATO dead? No, it's still a great cartridge that works fine.

Originally Posted by wanneroo

SOCOM did a test on 6.5 CM vs. 7.62 NATO and 6.5 has much tighter groups, less wind drift, carries more energy and accuracy at 1000 metres and has more terminal distance.

So it's being adopted for it's semi auto designated marksman rifles and now for it's machine guns and nope this one is not a craze. It does the job better than 7.62 NATO/308 Win with no downside to it.

Does that make 308 Win/7.62 NATO dead? No, it's still a great cartridge that works fine.

They also found that marksmanship improved almost 40% for the AVG soldier increasing 1st round hit probability by 33% Which is quite an achievement.