308, and has some promising advantages at longer ranges, especially beyond 300 yards. So as not to inflame the heated arguments that go back and forth between the 6.8 and the 6.5 crowds let me clearly state my purpose: The focus of this discussion is the viability of the 6.8 SPC cartridge as an urban police sniper round.īut let's look at the 6.5 Grendel. steel pistol argument, but I figured it needed to be addressed. The argument as to which round is better-the 6.8 SPC or the 6.5 Grendel-is as volatile as the typical plastic vs. So in most snipers' opinions that leaves the 6.8 SPC and the 6.5 Grendel. 223 has been tried and has suffered an issue or two with underpenetration and failure to immediately incapacitate the threat. Unfortunately, options for smaller precision rifles are limited. Big hunting calibers are just not optimal for these agencies' operations because of worries about overpenetration.
308 has been my work horse over the years and strikes a good compromise for ranges from 50 to 500 yards.īut what about those agencies that never see police sniper engagements beyond even 100 yards? Which is likely substantially more than 95 percent of all police agencies.
300 Win Mag and Short Mag were great competitive rifles. 338's are great for very long range and media penetration.
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