Federal does it again 😅

[45-90]

It took Hornady at least a year, to get brass, & dies for the 6mm ARC and the 338 ARC, to market in with inconsistent deliveries, coming soon for a year at Midway...brass and no dies, or just a seating die, no FL die.
Waited 6 months for a 338 ARC reamer to build my own, on a 6.5 twist barrel.

I'm a fan of 80,000 psi cartridges, especially you guys that like short barrels. I only use short barrels on auto loaders.
The hybrid case or new steel case is a way to get good velocity from short barrels, and use hybrid cases where ever I can, like 308, 6 5 CM, 8.6 Blkout, 6 Dasher, 358 win, etc.

 

[45-90]

Yep almost like moving from black powder to smokeless.
But there are guns that go 19,000 fps but only the military has one and it takes alot of electrical power to fire it, a couple of large trucks to follow you to the range.
Next will be lazer power or energy partical beams AI supported so you never miss a visible target at any range less then 3 light seconds away, or around half a million miles distant. ....

 

[45-90]

Ya don't need published data to shoot it...it's nice but not mandatory.
I like the Weatherby offering 20 or 22 inch barrel, at Buds. Probably buy the 22" for me.
Buy a couple boxes of factory nickel plated cartridges.
Make some dies on the lathe.
And load the fired cases.
As you now have actual case H2O cap, and bullet length, COAL, all the parameters ya need to load this cartridge. Plus factory fired ammo from your chamber to compare.
So one can be shooting and reloading this new cartridge in a few days, with a little ingenuity and lathe skills.
May be able to rework existing dies with carbide tools and polishing, once you have your fired cases to measure.

 

[Charger442]

Ya don't need published data to shoot it...it's nice but not mandatory.
I like the Weatherby offering 20 or 22 inch barrel, at Buds. Probably buy the 22" for me.
Buy a couple boxes of factory nickel plated cartridges.
Make some dies on the lathe.
And load the fired cases.
As you now have actual case H2O cap, and bullet length, COAL, all the parameters ya need to load this cartridge. Plus factory fired ammo from your chamber to compare.
So one can be shooting and reloading this new cartridge in a few days, with a little ingenuity and lathe skills.
May be able to rework existing dies with carbide tools and polishing, once you have your fired cases to measure.

this isn't 1962 anymore. if there's really all these gun companies chambering this, there's absolutely no reason federal can't do the logical thing and support it with published reload data and dies.

we shouldn't have to fabricate our own dies on the hottest hot sauce to come along since we broke the 3k fps barrier

 

[Im2bent]

this isn't 1962 anymore. if there's really all these gun companies chambering this, there's absolutely no reason federal can't do the logical thing and support it with published reload data and dies.

we shouldn't have to fabricate our own dies on the hottest hot sauce to come along since we broke the 3k fps barrier

Maybe they want to sell loaded ammo only. What's the ratio of hunters to reloaders.

 

[Charger442]

Maybe they want to sell loaded ammo only. What's the ratio of hunters to reloaders.

doing a shitty job of that, doesn't look like much is available at all.

loaded ammo or components, its all money. make it all available, not like it has a shelf life

 

[45-90]

this isn't 1962 anymore. if there's really all these gun companies chambering this, there's absolutely no reason federal can't do the logical thing and support it with published reload data and dies.

we shouldn't have to fabricate our own dies on the hottest hot sauce to come along since we broke the 3k fps barrier

Federal already has loaded ammo and there are rifles ready from a bunch of manufacturers...seems faster than Hornaday to me.
I took over a year for Hornady to get ARC dies and reloading cases in their 6 mm & 338 ARC calibers, and no reloading data, same deal...so I made my own brass, for both, and even chambered the 338 ARC barrel.
Never fired a factory round in any caliber I own, but here is where you can get their nickeled steel cases....and cases could be made out of other brass cases, while ya wait for the steel cases.
If ya want to reload for it now or wait... that's up to you.. same as in 1962.
So sometimes I make the dies to make the brass...look no head stamps on 250 pcs of formed brass cases these are 6 mm ARC when Hornady failed to get brass to the market. ...or the first ever 6 Dasher hybrid cases...when no one is making brass for you, or your shooting an obsolete caliber, like 401 WSL, or 30 RAR, you can make it yourself.