Originally Posted by
BWilson
The round is ideal for personal defense and/or LE use especially since you can't justify shooting at someone attacking you from long range and most LE use is under 100yds. With over 30 bullets of 95-150gr to choose from there is a bullet for every application. You can have rapid expansion with low penetration or 100% weight retention and deep penetration or something in between. There are several WC videos on Youtube that show terminal performance on anything from watermelon to shooting through car window glass.
Plus features over the calibers you mentioned are:
No loss of magazine capacity (not so for 6.5 or 6.8)
Huge choice of bullet type and weight (95-150gr)
Compare for example: A .30cal bullet of 110gr/2700fps, 125gr/2525fps or 150gr bullet at 2300fps to the other calibers
Mild recoil, the heaviest 300 loads are comparable to the 6.8
Which would you rather have if faced with a drug crazed threat? .224" dia 77gr at 2700fps or 308" dia 110gr at 2700fps
Negatives:
Doesn't shoot as flat as a heavy bullet 5.56 or the 6.5G (not really a factor for defense or LE use)
Not designed for subsonic loads (this only compares to the Blackout and is of NO interest to me personally)
Ammo not widely available (you will see this change early next year)