jollymon
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I have a upper for Deer hunting and it works quite well but it seems to have faded from the spotlight , Anyone else have one and feel it's under valued ,
The 6.8 spc didn't do anything that other cartridges weren't doing a lot better.
6.5 Grendel just seems a little more popular. That could be because I own it and not 6.8SPC, but I certainly hear a lot more about 6.5 grendel. Though it seems like there are more 6.8spc loads out there. But 6.5 grendel ammo is easier to find.
A lot of places online sell 6.8spc.
Seems the DoD wants to bring back a flavor of it so maybe it will come back to life.
It wasn't a horrible round, but like many, it just wasn't worth the effort for the little gain.
Seems the DoD wants to bring back a flavor of it so maybe it will come back to life.
It wasn't a horrible round, but like many, it just wasn't worth the effort for the little gain.
This!Remington is what happened to the 6.8. They sent the wrong specs to SAAMI and it stuck the cartridge in a weird form of limbo. Some smaller companies came out with a spec 2, which was better than the standard and included a chamber with a longer leade and slower twist rate.
Mostly agree with this. I don't think .300AAC was necessarily such a big impact, but I do think steel-cased 6.5G ammo made that caliber a much more appealing choice, since you could now use it in high-volume applications without breaking the bank. 6.8's only real use case now is a very marginal (and theoretical) increase in terminal/hunting performance over 6.5G at like 200yds and in, and maybe slightly better bullet selection. That's simply not a compelling argument given everything else 6.5G does much better.6.5 Grendel has more power, more range, better ballistics. 300BO is more efficient(especially from short barrels), more versatile, and can throw a larger slug, both stretch the platforms capabilities pretty far from the base 5.56 chambering. Of course 5.56 is more popular, and newer heavy/high BC bullets stretch out it's versatility enough to make the relatively small differences in 6.8 not really worth it IMO.
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Mostly agree with this. I don't think .300AAC was necessarily such a big impact, but I do think steel-cased 6.5G ammo made that caliber a much more appealing choice, since you could now use it in high-volume applications without breaking the bank. 6.8's only real use case now is a very marginal (and theoretical) increase in terminal/hunting performance over 6.5G at like 200yds and in, and maybe slightly better bullet selection. That's simply not a compelling argument given everything else 6.5G does much better.
Hunting bullet wise, the 6.8 has it in spades. Unless bullet manufacturers got their 6.5 stuff together, all of the 6.5 bullets are designed to work at Swede, creed, 260, and x47 speeds. The 6.8 has bullets designed for performance of the specific cartridge instead of using 270 designed bullets. The round had really caught on in the hunting section. My 9 yo has one. He killed 2 deer with it last year and are trying out luck with bear next month.