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, 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.
