Well it appears Hornady has been at it again and developed a new cartridge. The 6MM ARC- Advanced Rifle Cartridge, developed for the AR platform which we may or may not get to use again. Sounds like it was developed for the military and will be the answer to all our questions, who knows it may be the be all end all or a dud. Jeeez H Christ just when I get my loading bench in a sort of organized chaos another new round pops up. What say you guys of the great interweb knowledge?
Hornady's 6mm ARC
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Aprilia Man
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>>>> I looks like a great cartridge for an AR. The 6mm Grendel wildcats always offered some of the best performance you could wring out of a small frame AR and this just means no more fireforming. I'd be all over this if the sacks of #### running our country hadn't just banned ARs.
rifleman762
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It's been around for a while as a popular wildcat: h ttp://www.6mmar.com/Page_1.html
Heck, even the original developer's website is named after it. I'm not sure of the exact dimensional differences between the wildcat and what SAAMI approved but they look the same to the naked eye.
Heck, even the original developer's website is named after it. I'm not sure of the exact dimensional differences between the wildcat and what SAAMI approved but they look the same to the naked eye.
It's an interesting cartridge for sure , as are the 6.5 Grendel, 6 mm Grendel and 6PPC as well as a pile of others .
However it is not so earth shattering that I am going to stop shooting or sell my 6mmBR , 223, and 308
match rifles to retool for it or any other newfangled round!!
R&D is great and new shooters can obviously take advantage of new developments ,but when I continually get told by people I "need to get into the 21st century", "get with the times or get left behind" or " shoot obsolete technology " I am amused .
I used to get angry when some newer shooter came out with this stuff But now can only laugh instead because for me my cartridge choices are fine and the only thing that can be improved upon is my shooting , a new cartridge will not magically do that , however .
Cat
However it is not so earth shattering that I am going to stop shooting or sell my 6mmBR , 223, and 308
match rifles to retool for it or any other newfangled round!!
R&D is great and new shooters can obviously take advantage of new developments ,but when I continually get told by people I "need to get into the 21st century", "get with the times or get left behind" or " shoot obsolete technology " I am amused .
I used to get angry when some newer shooter came out with this stuff But now can only laugh instead because for me my cartridge choices are fine and the only thing that can be improved upon is my shooting , a new cartridge will not magically do that , however .
Cat
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the 6mm ARC has less shoulder than the 6mm AR. The 6mm ARC has a shoulder length just 0.030'' over a 6mm PPC (it is sort of in between PPC and AR). All in all, for better performance, 6mm AR, 6mm AR Turbo or 6mm AR Turbo40 and there are also the 6mm Grinch and the 243LBC cartridges which are approximately the same.
For having worked in the ammunition making industry for over 10 years, I can say that Hornady did not innovate at all, they just went in circle with the Grendel, I bet Bill Alexander already played with the concept of a 6 mm based off of the 7.62X39... and the 6mm PPC has been around for 30+ years and was already tried in AR15 platforms. Hornady just did to Bill Alexander or Robert Withley, what Remington and AAC did to JD Jones with taking over the 300 Whisper and calling it 300 BLK. Or just like Federal and the 224 Valkyrie, they copied the 22 PDK wildcat. The only good thing about it is standardization which means more products on the market and a better price.
