6 ARC Longevity
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I think it's here to stay. It really maximizes the long range capability of an AR-15 or mini-action over 5.56mm, there's factory ammo options (now Black Hills?), plenty of barrel maker and rifle offerings, and the magazine kinks seem to have been worked out from what I can tell. I don't see it falling into the same pattern as the .224 Valkyrie.
yeah i feel like it's here to stay and may kill the 6.8spc I have loved for so many years. This is purely based off of emotion and feel of the interweb and nothing statistical.
Yeah, total flash in the pan. Have you heard about this 6.5CM cartridge Hornady just came out with?
All kidding aside, I think 6ARC is going to be around for the foreseeable future also. I don’t know of another company in the industry that does as good a job as H in pushing new products and making sure they have good support.
All kidding aside, I think 6ARC is going to be around for the foreseeable future also. I don’t know of another company in the industry that does as good a job as H in pushing new products and making sure they have good support.
It basically existed as a Grendel wildcat for almost two decades, with as strong a following as a wildcat can have. I think it'll stick around.
It really interested me. Performance out of a Gas is great and from what I've heard even more impressive (or can be loaded to perform better) out of Bolt action rifles. When I first looked at it only Hornady had any ammo, I'll have to check out the Black Hills loading!!! Listening to the TPH podcast and the Votex podcast has got me thinking of getting a rifle in 6mm ARC.
Really cool when a wildcat makes the transition to a Factory offering. Especially these recent calibers that have came out.
I have seen where 6 ARC is a solution for varmint hunting to maybe deer.
Kyle at the Social Regressive outfitted a 6 ARC from CMMG and it was to be a truck gun.
Texas Predator Hunting podcast also uses 6 ARC for predator hunt. Coyotes and hogs and bobcats.
So, I think it is here to stay for that use. Nearly invisible recoil.
Kyle at the Social Regressive outfitted a 6 ARC from CMMG and it was to be a truck gun.
Texas Predator Hunting podcast also uses 6 ARC for predator hunt. Coyotes and hogs and bobcats.
So, I think it is here to stay for that use. Nearly invisible recoil.
Probably the best all around small frame AR cartridge out there. It damn near maximized the mag well with a super high bc bullets for weight. I'm taking mine on a mule deer hunt to Montana this year as a backup to a 6.5 bolt gun. It's probably the perfect deer caliber inside 400 -500 yards. Low recoil, cheap, inherently accurate, factory ammo is cheap. The other is the 350l for straight wall states/counties
. .223, 6 arc and 350l have you covered for anything you could use a small frame AR to do.
. .223, 6 arc and 350l have you covered for anything you could use a small frame AR to do.
I think the 6 ARC is here to stay. Excellent little cartridge with great performance in the AR15 and fun in a bolt gun too. I have it in each.
It’s a great ranch rifle with lighter loads like ELD vt. Then load up to the 105-108 class for deer.
6ARC Mini-Fix (yeah I know, fight me) is probably one of my favorite rifles these days for humping up and down hills and still being able to shoot .308WIN distances.
Depends on what you mean by longevity. If you mean is it going to be put out on the pile of obscure cartridges any time soon, the answer is absolutely not.
I think the entire discussion along those lines was created because of when the cartridge was first launched there were shortages all over the place.
6mm bullets have been popular for going on 70 years or more and have zero indication of losing ground. In fact quite the opposite.
About the ONLY thing that would slow down the ARC is brass production because literally every other part and component is something very very popular.
The fact that it's in a small frame AR platform doesn't harm it's prospective growth by any means.
Will all of the bolt gun people drop everything and go to 6 ARC, no. Will it be dropped by the legions of AR fans? Hell no to that too.
25 years from now I think you could go to your local gun shop and get some 6 ARC ammo.
I definitely hope it is here to stay. I built a 6arc gas gun about 6 months ago and love it. I regularly shoot it out to 650yds and have found it very accurate. As long as the wind is not too crazy it holds its own with 6.5cm at those distances. I have the itch to build a bolt gun chambered in it.
Last time I shot groups with it...
Last time I shot groups with it...
It's here to stay, only because of factory support, wildcatting the Grendel is more expensive and a pain.
Hornady should have blown the case out more, straight walled ish, moved the shoulder forward two mm, and 40/42 degree.
I think people will end up wildcatting it.
Hornady should have blown the case out more, straight walled ish, moved the shoulder forward two mm, and 40/42 degree.
I think people will end up wildcatting it.
LOL. Yes Hornady puts out some great product.
Man that's some good shootin!! I would love build a 6 ARC in both gas and a bolt gun. How did you go about your build? I think I'm gonna have to man up and buy or build a 6 arc. Really haven't seen and or heard any negatives on this cartridge.
And for states where .22 cal is illegal to hunt some game it solves that issue.
If anyone has any questions about it's efficacy on deer, don't. I've killed a dozen or more deer with it, my nephews a few more, and my buddies have killed dozens more. It's absolutely plenty of cartridge to kill deer. I prefer the 103 eld-x for deer, but I've used 105gr and 108gr factory ammo from Hornady, and they work fine as well. I'm going to load some 95gr sst this fall, and I think it may be the sweet spot for deer.
All of that has been done already, with negligible gains. If anyone wants a highly modified 6mm Grendel based wildcat they were already doing it way before ARC existed.
For the other 99.999% of shooters, they want to pull ammo out of a box and shoot it, pull brass from a bag and load it, buy standard dies, order in stock barrels off a website and never own a custom reamer that needs to be sent to a gunsmith.
I don't think many people will mess with the ARC recipe.
Hornady doesn't do shit. They steal other people's designs and throw a bunch of marketing behind it. I'm glad the platform was standardized but it's nothing new. They are a shit company.
Same with the 300blk that acc stole. 300 whisper had been around for decades.
As much as I'm not a fan of Q, I really like their fix and would love to have a mini fix in 6 arc.
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are y'all seeing around 19 for the standard deviation also? i just thought it might be a little more consistent than that? for the factory 108 eld m loads from hornady? i'm stocked up on sierra 110 smk's and tubb 115 dtacs anyway, might as well start working up loads
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We are all well aware of your hatred for Hornady. They took the gamble and spent the money to bring it mainstream, end of conversation.
Is the industry moving to that as a standard? That's what is keeping me in the short term wait game?
I'm certain it would, just like anything I've shot with .300, 6.5G, 6.8, etc, they all died the same. Great to have a "mainstream" caliber, one that's actually adopted.
Taking a gamble? You mean ripping off a known, proven product and making it mainstream? God damn what a HUGE risk that was.
Same as stealing the Henderson trimmer design, having it made in China and selling for a fraction of the original.
They are a shit chinese company without a unique thought. Basically holosun except holosun actually innovates.
Hahahaha. Yes let me fire up my 20 million dollar ammo plant. It's been collecting dust waiting for the right gamble.
From my understanding, Magpul is going whole hog into mag production which makes me assume the ICAR project has been in the works for quite some time.
Again, assumptions, but I’m guessing there’s been cogs turning since DOD started looking at the ARC cartridge. The standard AR platform obviously makes quite a few concessions which supposedly the ICAR addresses.
