Question: Why hasn't the military upgraded to a 7mm or 6.5mm cartridge for use in their sniper platforms which generally exhibit better LR efficiency that the old .30 cals being used since the 1898 30-40 Krag? Rex: The criteria that the military has focused on for their cartridge selection is quite different than the criteria we use for ELR precision shooting. The military needs to maintain logistical simplicity, thus the slight increase in external ballistics superiority of the 7mms over the .30s did not warrant the retooling and completely changing over the weapons and ammo inventory that’s been accumulated since before WWI. :-)
