.224 Valkyrie? Future competitor to the 6.5 Grendel?

[BluntForceTrauma]

A .224 90gr SMK or 90gr Berger VLD is a legit bullet. No question. But the SMK BC used in the advertising (0.563) can't be accurate because it's better than Berger's BC (0.534), and the SMK is not sleeker than the VLD. So there's that.

Second, guys have been necking up and down the 68SPC case (just like they've been doing to the 65G case) within hours of it first coming out. Seriously, many versions of the 224V have existed for years, and there is a body of data already. We could do some Googling to kind of get a baseline to set our expectations more realistically.

The only interesting thing about this is that a major manufacturer, Federal, is involved. And, on its merits, it seems a well-designed round because they, correctly, shortened the case a bit and, correctly, used a long, high BC bullet.

For myself, if I HAD to have 90gr .224 bullets in an intermediate case, I'd go with Whitley's 224AR because I already have 65G bolts and mags, and because I think the 65G case is even better suited to getting the most velocity from long 90gr .224 bullets at 2.260-2.300 mag lengths.