Hornady 6mm ARC "New" cartridge

[Rustytigwire]

AR P dog popper....

 

[Sniper338]

Seems resiculous to me. Necking down the grendel was already a thing. They basically stole the 6mm grendel and made it their own namd round to make brass for and push like the creedmore. This round is nothing new, its a knock off grendel.

Im boycotting this round already. Its a creedmoore counterpart. Im really not a hornady fan at all now, not that I own anything hornady anyways.

 

[Adam in WI]

I'm going to boycott Remington for stealing the 22-250

 

[Hohn]

And AAC for stealing the 300 whisper.

and Remington again for stealing the 6.5-08 A-square...

Maybe instead of pouting about a stolen idea we should celebrate a preferred round going legitimate and getting standardized as it can only help.

 

[johnfred1965]

Someone should be along shortly to bash this simply because Hornady is producing it...

Standby.


That someone will not be myself.

OK I'll bite... Hornady did the same thing to the 6mm AR that AAC did to the 300 whisper. Tweak it just enough to call it something new, and not have to give credit where it is due. THere, hows that?

 

[johnfred1965]

Props to JD Jones and Robert Whitley for freely providing their ingenuity!

 

[Evan]

Im boycotting this round already. Its a creedmoore counterpart. Im really not a hornady fan at all now, not that I own anything hornady anyways.

Yeah, I hate how Hornady has successfully marketed their tawdry products as archetypal to the proselytes of our sport. How dare they standardize our prized abstruse and esoteric wildcats for the ignorant novitiates! Don't they know these arcane cartridges are meant only for the uncanny and enigmatic silo of erudite benchresters? How dare they debauch our sport so!

I learned some new words today and wanted to try them out! Momma always said that a good vocabulary is an important piece of expressing yourself.

 

[Evan]

Props to JD Jones and Robert Whitley for freely providing their ingenuity!

How about we thank Arne Brennan and Bill Alexander? Or better yet, how about we thank Louis Palmisano and Ferris Pindell? Or we can go back to the source and thank Elizarov for the gran-daddy: the 7.62x39.

We all stand on the shoulders of others.

 

[Ranger188]

I see a 22 ARC, 25 ARC and maybe a 30 ARC

 

[Bc'z]

I see a 22 ARC, 25 ARC and maybe a 30 ARC

What no 28?
I'm seriously contemplating an upper for this cartridge.

 

[Ranger188]

I did post a 7 ARC and thought the others will be more popular.
Everyone is going to want to tinker with it somehow.

 

[Evan]

What no 28?
I'm seriously contemplating an upper for this cartridge.

You know those 277 oddballs are going to come out of the woodwork to tell you how they're gonna make a 270 ARC that's better than any 7mm!


Edit: I think a 338 ARC is where it's at. Subsonic and the name describes the flight path of the bullet. ARCing into the target.

 

[B muzguy]

not interested

 

[johnfred1965]

Lets not forget to thank the chinese for inventing gunpowder

 

[newbieshooter]

I see a 22 ARC, 25 ARC and maybe a 30 ARC

http://www.6mmar.com/30_ARX.php

 

[Grimstod]

Not another 6PPC nock off!! We already have to many of them, and they are NEVER as good as the PPC. Just make a frigin PPC, how hard is that? Good news is though is that there will be more rifles that can be converted to PPC.

By the way I find it ironic that everyone is always trying to fit an AK based cartridge into their AR but no one is ever trying to fit a 556 into their AK.

 

[Hohn]

I see a 22 ARC, 25 ARC and maybe a 30 ARC

I can see smaller but not bigger. Bigger only exacerbates the Grendel challenge.

 

[R.Morehouse]

I see a 22 ARC, 25 ARC and maybe a 30 ARC

30 Major......Necked up Grendel...........Lapua brass..........Can hang 90% of the time with my PPC....Better for score...

Regards
Rick

 

[David Milisock]

It will be interesting to see how accurate you guys can make it shoot out of a bolt gun. I think it will create a new surge in the AR-15 platform, hot item for coyote hunters.

I agree, bolt rifle accuracy should be interesting, along with barrel length. Hornady lists their velocities with 24" barrels. Military uses 20" or 14 1/2" barrels. Us bolt gun reloaders may be able to ignore the 52,000 PSI limit but that's to be seen.

As far as hunting with an AR platform the 6mm ARC as well as the 6.5 Grendel are welcome chamberings. As far as my bolt rifle I'm not running out and dumping my 700 Remington in 6mm Remington.

I have not read enough to see what the military has in mind. At 52,000 PSI it lends itself to rapid fire with longer life then the current 5.56 NATO M855A1 cartridge. However from my experiance with 100+ grain projectiles for up close and personel work an M4 configuration with force multipliers may need to come in at around 7 lbs + to be easily manageable with rapid fire. As the standard M16 configuration, I see the 6mm as an asset.

 

[Hohn]

The military tested it in an 18" barrel in the Barrett Rec7 (piston AR).