One of my customers has a 6.8 SPC on a Bushmaster lower. Pretty interesting gun . . . It is probably in the same niche, from a hunting round aspect, as the 7.62 X 39 or the .30-30 - good for medium game like deer at moderate distances. I don't expect to see very many of them out here in the west.

The problem that this round was designed to solve - lack of knockdown with the SS 109 NATO military round - wouldn't be a problem if we had better performing 5.56/.223 military ammunition. I had some Marines home on leave from Iraq down at my gunshop over the holidays. They say there is quite the black market over there for the regular 55 grain FMJ .223 ammuntion - Geneva convention legal - lots better knockdown than the 62 Gr. NATO penetrator stuff. And civilian police rounds like the Hornady TAP stuff . . . dead before they hit the ground.