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Why did the 6 PPC overtake the 222?

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Looking at this group and the many others like it from the triple deuce era makes me feel nostalgic for it. It also strikes me that there really isn't a reason, other than herd mentality perhaps, that everyone uses the 6 PPC for shortrange. I think Lou and Ferris were great marksmen who developed an exceptionally accurate cartridge and everyone followed their lead when they started winning with it. Or am I missing something?
 
The caliber rule for sorters required something larger than .22. In addition to being very accurate, its bullet diameter allowed the 6mm PPC to be shot in all classes, and it is more consistently accurate than the sporter calibers that it replaced, and better in the wind at 200 than the .222, and the various wildcats that became popular before the PPC. In LV and HV 6mm bullet holes are easier to see at 200 especially when mirage is heavy.
Several years back my late friend Dennis Thornbury pulled a very good rifle from his gun safe, a sleeved Remington in .222, with which he won the two gun at a sanctioned match at Visalia, against a field of 6PPCs shot by very credible marksmen. I don't remember who else attended that match, but those matches would commonly be attended by Gary Ocock, Lester Bruno, sometimes Walt Berger, and often Tom and Caroline Libbey, in addition to other current and former record holders, including Stu Harvey. At that range, conditions are typically light and switchy, increasing throughout the day.
 
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you give up a lot of weight, even to make what they used to call a Cruiserweight (18-20lbs) for unlimited class.

But a guy with one gun can still shoot a lv ppc in every class. Most matches are 5 shot unlimited anyway. I see a lot of folks shooting lv in a 5 shot ul match so they dont have to lug a railgun around
 
If all competitors follow the leader, as they usually do, the
6PPC will always be in the winners' circle. You have to have at least a small percentage shooting the 222 to know if it could win. LDS
 
Every top ppc shooter i know has tried numerous times to find something to beat a ppc. Ive seen way too many things over the last 25yrs that can beat a ppc but they never make it a whole season or sometimes even one match. I can assure you 110% if there was something even a tiny bit better then 50% plus of the top shooters would be rigged up before the weekend. They try and try but the ppc cant be beat with anything out there agg wise. When youre talking low teen aggs over a whole weekend nobody shoots a ppc because its easy- far from it i assure you. They shoot it for one reason- its the only variation of a metallic cartridge that can win at the low teen agg level. Its not easy to shoot a sub .250 agg period, with any cartridge. You gotta have your stuff together and you have to tweak your stuff every time you go to the line. Slip up one time and its mid pack at best
 
Some years back I was having a conversation with a fellow who was expressing his frustration with the fact that shooters did not favor a cartridge of his design by shooting it in registered competition. He acted as if he thought that it was somehow their job to do research that he wanted done. After listening to him go on for a bit too long on that track, I reminded him that shooters attended matches for the purpose of winning them, not to provide entertainment for those who are curious but not enough to spend their own money, and that since he lives near to a range where one of the major events takes place every year, that there was nothing preventing him from fielding a rifle in that caliber himself. That brought him back to reality, and he went on to other subjects. Anyone who is curious about how a caliber would do in competition is perfectly free to try it. Those that speak ill of copying the most successful seldom have records of committing their own time and funds experimenting successfully with original solutions.
 
...I can assure you 110% if there was something even a tiny bit better then 50% plus of the top shooters would be rigged up before the weekend....
Borrowing a tale, I’m pretty sure that they’d be down at the crossroads at midnight of the full moon with their soul in hand to find any advantage. ...A friend told me he saw them..... ;).
 
If all competitors follow the leader, as they usually do, the
6PPC will always be in the winners' circle. You have to have at least a small percentage shooting the 222 to know if it could win. LDS

That's kind of my thought. So the 6PPC aggs better than a 222, but without at least a few shooters really giving something else a go, we don't really know if it'd do better. I'm thinking even PPC similars like the 220 Beggs, the 6 Grinch. Just seems like the rules have created stagnation in development, but maybe that's what everyone in those comps wants: show up with your PPC and find out if you are better than everyone else at shooting a 6ppc because there's no perceived edge to be had by experimenting with another chambering.
 
That's kind of my thought. So the 6PPC aggs better than a 222, but without at least a few shooters really giving something else a go, we don't really know if it'd do better. I'm thinking even PPC similars like the 220 Beggs, the 6 Grinch. Just seems like the rules have created stagnation in development, but maybe that's what everyone in those comps wants: show up with your PPC and find out if you are better than everyone else at shooting a 6ppc because there's no perceived edge to be had by experimenting with another chambering.

What makes you think nobody ever shows up with other chamberings? Plenty of experimenting going on
 

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