It's OK Gene, we understand the difficulties inherent in cross-cultural communications.
Course you may be paying for lunch as amends. OT - Are you still headed this way?
Grendalizer - Search button. You registered, it works, and we've beat this dead horse into hamburger. There are sound reasons for the military's fixation on the current cartridge mix. Until the Army says otherwise, 6.5 and 6.8 are esoteric. You have a fine forum of your own to discuss the relative merits of esoteric ammunition. Speculation about rumors in a public forum is
irresponsible.