What are you trying to accomplish with the rifle? I assume since a 20” suppressed Dasher is an option, this isn’t any kind of competition rifle, so sure, 20” makes as much sense as anything.

I have a 10” 243win and a 15” 6 creed. I had a 14” 300 wsm for a while, and had a 11” 7 BR. All of it works.

Will take this if available.

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I just browsed the 6gt Facebook group, but there are some guys running the low 2800s node from 16-17" barrels. Alpha brass is very resistant to bolt lift but you really gotta look at primers for pressure signs with alpha ocd brass. They'll tell way sooner than bolt lift.

Supposedly sierra is doing a run of the 95tmk in next couple months(they've been saying this since Jan) and that bullet kills very well. You'll be able to get 200fps more than a 108gr as the bearing is very short. They'd do the trick to 600y I'm sure.

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I trust guys boasting about their speed data on the internet like I trust gas station sushi. However, thanks for letting me know about the 6GT FB page... I'm going to go and check it out.

I think that a 95gt TMK would be pretty sweet out of a GT as well if Sierra actually brings one to market. I farted around with a 95gr NBT in my GT, just to see how it would do, and I got in the 3,050 range out of a 27" barrel and ~.6 MOA. I don't remember the exact velocity, but I think I posted it in the 6GT load data page in the reloading subsection. I was actually going to post about the 95gr NBT for this guy's build until I saw your mentioning of the 95gr TMK.

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OP: I'd definitely be looking at lighter bullets (<100gr) for this shorter barrel as I'm assuming the hunting ranges would be less too. Stuff like the 90gr ELD-X, 95gr Berger, 95gr NBT, or 95gr LRX ought to get you to 400 yards still with pretty good efficiency in killing.

What is the trade?

Eric_F said:

Hmmm. Just got an alert that the blem C-6.8 lowers are available, and only $43. But the uppers don't exist anywhere, even the product page is 404 on NFA's website.

Edit: nvm I didn't read the page correctly, their G4 G2 uppers work for both 6.8 pattern and 5.56, and are the replacement for the dedicated C-6.8 uppers.

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This cross compatibility with standard lowers is how PSA should do their ARC uppers if at all possible, but the last time I asked either on YT or in the industry section that wasn't the plan.

The 165gr Nosler BT out of a .308 was my "go-to" deer bullet for several years. I still have zero complaints about it. It went 9 for 9 on whitetails, and four of those were hard angle spine shots. It comes apart for sure, but I usually got an exit from the core at least.

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If pigs are on the menu, I've only killed - a lot - with an 18" .308. Pick a cheap 150gr soft point or SST and put it where it needs to be. However, I've had fantastic results with the 165gr and 180gr soft points too... but my sample size is limited to about a dozen hogs each... not exactly enough for me to be 100% confident in.

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Really, a lot of overthinking is going into this (and I'm guilty of that too on multiple occasions). Any .308 or 6.5 CM, or even 6.5 Grendel based case with an appropriately selected bullet - put into the correct place on an animal - will kill with efficiency. Most of us like arguing though for the sake of it and your choice is obviously inferior to theirs because they spend more time on the forums... beating their peckers and eating cheetos in between schooling us on ballistics... and then they wonder why they have an orange dick.

Which action?

kcbird said:

That whoremonger Richard Dawson is not in it, so I'm out. RIP you dirty old bastard.

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Casting him was a stroke of genius!!!

He was such a smarmy slimeball. He was perfect!! And everybody who watched it could see that The Guy easily could have become the Game show host of the post apocalyptic Los Angeles, Running Man show.

That can never be re-created!!!

Sirhr

wheels2487 said:

What is it chambered in 375 EnABELR or 375/408 CT? Both options available with Europtic

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375 Cheytac

The last 24 hours of lightning strikes in the CA North Zone. Add to wind gusts of 60 MPH and an RH in the teens to 20’s.

koshkin said:

roughly 1 out of 10 calls to most riflescope companies is an actual scope problem and I am probably highballing it.

ILya

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bobby1028 said:

Over a month, anything on the outcome ?

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I'm guessing this....or maybe the "other guy" with a broken scope at the match was operator error/mount/ring problem...Either way, hate it when a complainer shows up here but doesn't report on the final disposition. Easy for a novice/uninformed shooter to assume it's the scope because they don't understand how all the other potential causes of a problem might impact the issue.

Bump! No love for these great vises?

Bump!

OK I'll play ... Daytona + GMT2 (the daily beater)