New Cartridge Developments and Implications for Dismounted Infantry Soldiers

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Combined with significantly less bearing surface, and I can see how the short, fat .277 projectiles can be driven faster. It seems to me that after a few years of gaining pretty significant traction in the civilian sector, the 6.8 SPC doesn't stand a chance of being adopted by any military.

While the Grendel was slowly, ever so slowly gaining traction, it now seems to have really picked up in the civilian side. I commend Bill Alexander's commitment to maintaining rigid standards on chamber dimensions for Grendel-licensed barrels, which has most likely contributed to avoiding what happened with the SPC and the incorrect 80 degree shoulders in those Ko-Tonics barrels. That one Kaboom posted on barfcom was impressive, to say the least. A piece of the bolt carrier blew right through the mag well and wooden bench he was shooting off of, and completely fragmented the upper receiver. He had the SSA ammo with large rifle primers, and a Ko-Tonics pipe. I do believe Ko-Tonics made him happy after the incident, but examples like that illustrate the importance of standardization, QC in the industry as a whole, especially as something new starts to take off.