6mm ARC VS 6PPC

[Killing Time]

I have a 40x, Hart barrel, McMillan stock, 6ppc that will stack them all day long using Bart 68 gr bullets, at 3000 fps , with a .262 neck. It is a great rifle. There are no benchrest matches that are close to me, and I just wanted a PPC to see how good they shoot, and it did not disapoint.

I traded for a 2 week old Ruger Gen 2 Predator in 6ARC. I did a trigger job on it that is under #2. With a 4x12 Vortex scope on it, not a 24x Leupold like the 6ppc, it runs the same bullet at 3400fps and 5 shot groups are in the low .3's, and a 85 Sierra Game King at 3050fps are 5 shots in the low .4's, chronoed. I am using Starline brass, with a load I threw together using H335 because I had #9 of it. The rifle has a brake on it, which kills the recoil pulse. For a rifle I have $400 in, I am tickled pink with it, don't have to turn necks, case stretch is non-existent so far. For deer and varmints, it will do the job, it is my go to truck/atv gun for varmints here in KY. I am putting a better scope on it soon, I just had the one extra that I put on it. I imagine it will shoot better with a 6x20 X44 Vortex Viper on it that I have extra right now. I am not trying to shoot matches with it, but it is doing a dang good job on yotes, and crows, and is a great gun for beginning deer hunters with no recoil, especially kids. I think the 6ARC is a more versatile round than 6ppc, as they both stand, and if both were built to the same specs, I sure we would see a little more velocity out of the 6ARC, and about the same accuracy, give or take. I was late to the game on both the 6PPC and the 6ARC because I really didnt need one as my .243 or 6XC's did all that I needed them to do. But I ended up liking them both because they are both, very accurate cartridges, for different jobs, as I see it. I love accurate rifles as we all do. If I were a young feller with a wife and family just getting started, I can see how a 6ARC would be a neat rifle to scratch several itches with, at a low price point. You could varmint hunt, deer hunt or ring steel way out there with not a lot of powder, cheaper primers, brass and bullets, or you could shoot a group with inexpeniver rifle/scope set up, that we used to dream about doing with a bench guns back in the 1970s and 1980s. Just my take on the rounds, no sense in getting heated up over the ins and outs .

Like you, I recently bought a Ruger Gen II predator 6 arc, just to have a less expensive rifle to play around with and to hopefully find a good deer rifle for my 9 year old daughter. I am blown away at the accuracy and consistency for a factory rifle. I am trying pretty much the same bullets that I use in my 6BR and 6XC and it has been very impressive. I am using Starline brass as well, with Varget and loaded some 103 ELD-X’s for my daughter to hunt with and she loves this rifle. She has already claimed it as hers

 

[Raptor]

I love the 6 ARC!! Many years ago, I had a 6PPC and loved it too. At the time it was the most accurate rifle that I owned. I eventually wore it out and sold the set up because it was a single shot. I first built the 6ARC in an AR and was so impressed with how it shot that I built a bolt gun too. Now it is the most accurate rifle I have ever had. I honestly think that the ARC is too small of a case of the the105s and bigger bullets. I don't feel you can really push them fast enough to take advantage of the higher BCs. My rifles both really shined with the 80 to 90gr bullets. I shoot the 87s in my AR and the 90s in my bolt gun. Out of a 22" in my bolt gun, I am getting 3125fps with a 90 Berger shooting it into bug holes at 100yds. I have only had it out once past 600yds. The first one is a 5 shot group is at 1050yds and the 3 shot is at 850yds...