FuhQ said:

Or a factory Browning A-Bolt barrel…

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DownhillFromHere said:

Another story from old guy about arrogance. It's good for a grin, an eye roll, and a karma sort of thing but otherwise useless.

I WAS THAT GUY. First programming job, back in the heyday of IBM mainframes. Total newbie. I was tasked with creating a very simple program to read and format data from a disk file and print the output. So it takes me 15 minutes to write the code and create and submit the job. Job runs. No errors. No formatted output. And the input data file is empty.

So I tell the admin to please recreate the input file. Takes her 30 minutes. I look at my code. It's fine. Run the job again. No errors. No output. Input file is empty.

Admin tells me I can recreate the data file my own self. I'm pissed. I grab the fanfold-paper job listing and stomp across campus to the main computer center, march indignantly into the office of the SME for the programming language, slap the listing on his desk and state in no uncertain terms: "I BET YOU A MONTH'S PAY THERE IS A BUG IN [LANGUAGE] - IT ATE MY DATA FILE TWICE." He gently pushes the listing to the corner of his desk and says, "I'll look at it." And just looks at me until I turn around and stomp out.

Halfway back to my office - I actually had one to myself, back there in 1982 - I had an inspiration. I get back and pull up the job. Programming code is fine. But IBM mainframes of the era had to be explicitly told EVERYTHING it needed to run a job - job name, who pays for it, where to find data, where to find program libraries, where to send output, and much more.

And there it was in my JCL (Job Control Language). I had switched my SYSIN and SYSOUT data definitions. Instead of reading from the input file and writing to the printer, I told it to read from the printer and write to the input file. As soon as the input file was opened for write, the data it contained vanished.

I called Eric and humbly asked if he required a check or could I pay in installments. I was mortified, but I learned. Slowly. Heh. This incident was 15 years before the one recounted above.... I learned humility in my coding but God gave me a thimble-size capacity for people-patience....

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Lowlight said:

This speaks to me as I did this, as well I watched other cartridges misstep over the years. Having gone down the Valkyrie route, and I like the Valkyrie, it showed the 22s work, they just need speed vs some of the other calibers. The handicapped it at 2750, and now that the 80s go 2900fps and they offer lighter faster options, it's dead. I feel the same way with the 6.5Grendel, it never worked, I watched dozen try it initially and it never worked as advertised and that is the key factor, as advertised. With ease we got the Valkyrie to work but too late.

Now, when they announced the 6ARC I was like, not this time, I am waiting. At the same time the Arc dropped the 6GT did as well, different missions, similar numbers to make you wonder, but that small frame AR size was the difference.

Initially and I still have the images, the numbers I saw were too slow for me, I said, same as the Valk, so I waited and went 6GT with a boltgun. View attachment 8696835
This was a no go for me, but figured time would tell.

Fast foreword to today and things have improved, we now have a solid variety of ammo, at a good swing of speeds. Some of it is still 2750fps, but other stuff is much faster. We can make this work, and we know handloading is key to getting what we need.

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The 80s, its in the 80s, going 3000fps, that is the sweet spot when we need it, as well the gas gun stuff with the ammo goes 2885fps. All good numbers where they didn't try to squeeze it all in a box. They have variety.

Rifle is built, I am hoping the barrel speeds up a little, which it might, i have barely 80 rounds through it, so maybe it will speed up a touch which would be the easy button.

Everyone I spoke to likes it, all the side adjacent military guys using it, like it, so there is some lifespan here.
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So far the best numbers are with the 103gr ELDX, really good downrange results with them.

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So I'm in the early days, honeymoon faze with the 6ARC but I like it alot so far

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shields shtr said:

It's actually a little of both, I seem to have mitigated it a little by really fine tuning the catch on the magazine. It feeds just fine if I am have it on a tripod and carefully cycle the bolt, but it seems to be finicky if my magazine is pressed up against anything or has pressure on it. It is such a small cartridge there just isn't much room for any play.

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beetroot said:

Have you seen the base model?
I hope it's better than the 2-12 JOL scopes, as the ones of those I saw weren't great.

I'm assuming it's a JOL scope and based off their 4-32 scope.

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