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Considering building a 6 x 6.8 #15722187 01/30/21
Joined: May 2012 Posts: 2,934 R RickyBobby OP Campfire Regular
OP RickyBobby Campfire Regular R Joined: May 2012 Posts: 2,934	I need to know the good & the bad before taking the plunge! Going to be a dedicated coyote night hunting rig. What gr and type of bullets should I be wanting to shoot? Can I find dies or should I expect to have to use a Redding type S and then do a two step bushing down process? Who makes a good 24” barrel in this chambering? What powders are best in this round and where do I find good load info for it? Any info is greatly appreciated! ================================================== I'm a proud member of the BGE cult ... yes, I consider myself an EGGHEAD

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Re: Considering building a 6 x 6.8 RickyBobby #15722704 01/30/21
Joined: Feb 2004 Posts: 19,176 North of Des Moines kwg020 Campfire Ranger
kwg020 Campfire Ranger Joined: Feb 2004 Posts: 19,176 North of Des Moines	Go to Predator Masters and ask that question. I just wish we could get ammo and cases right now that did not cost a fortune. kwg For liberals and anarchists, power and control is opium, selling envy is the fastest and easiest way to get it. TRR. American conservative. Never trust a white liberal. Malcom X Current NRA member.

Re: Considering building a 6 x 6.8 RickyBobby #15723214 01/30/21
Joined: Nov 2006 Posts: 10,163 T TWR Campfire Outfitter
TWR Campfire Outfitter T Joined: Nov 2006 Posts: 10,163	A few friends of mine were shooting the 6 WOA which I am guessing is the same thing. They were using 75 grain bullets for the most part and killing coyotes and pigs pretty well with them. But that’s been a long time ago.

Re: Considering building a 6 x 6.8 TWR #15724590 01/30/21
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bsa1917hunter Campfire 'Bwana B Joined: Aug 2010 Posts: 48,026 Battle Born	Originally Posted by TWR A few friends of mine were shooting the 6 WOA which I am guessing is the same thing. They were using 75 grain bullets for the most part and killing coyotes and pigs pretty well with them. But that’s been a long time ago. A guy named Dan Carey built a bunch of them. A lot of the ones he built had 1 in 10 twist barrels. Probably the reason a lot of guys ran 75 and 85gr pills. Had mine been twisted tighter, I'd likely still have it. If I were the op, id look into the 6 ARC, as there is a lot more support for that cartridge than the one hes inquiring about. You can also shoot heavier pills with higher bc's. Even though times are tough right now, I snagged this box of ammo the other day at Cabela's: Originally Posted by raybass I try to stick with the basics, they do so well. Nothing fancy mind you, just plain jane will get it done with style. Originally Posted by Pharmseller You want to see an animal drop right now? Shoot him in the ear hole. BSA MAGA

Re: Considering building a 6 x 6.8 RickyBobby #15724779 01/30/21
Joined: Sep 2005 Posts: 2,799 K Kaiser Norton Campfire Regular
Kaiser Norton Campfire Regular K Joined: Sep 2005 Posts: 2,799	I'd also opt for the 6ARC - though relatively new, it ought to have decent support from the industry and have substantially less hassle than a straight up wildcat (i.e., easier to find components, dies, etc - hence = CHEAPER) with much the same results on the coyotes end. Why fight your way uphill? YMMV....... Kaiser Norton The Kaiser- "If it ain't broke, I can fix that!"

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Re: Considering building a 6 x 6.8 RickyBobby #15724861 01/30/21
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Re: Considering building a 6 x 6.8 RickyBobby #15728226 01/31/21
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BobBrown Campfire Outfitter B Joined: Jun 2020 Posts: 10,840 USA	Why use that brass ? FUGK CCP It’s time to WAKE UP GOD BLESS THE USA WWG1WGA THERE ARE NO COINCIDENCES

Re: Considering building a 6 x 6.8 RickyBobby #15728258 01/31/21
Joined: Sep 2001 Posts: 19,059 Canyon Ferry, Montana M MontanaMarine Campfire Ranger
MontanaMarine Campfire Ranger M Joined: Sep 2001 Posts: 19,059 Canyon Ferry, Montana	Yeah, 6mm ARC is your 'easy button'.

Re: Considering building a 6 x 6.8 MontanaMarine #15728541 01/31/21
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antelope_sniper Campfire 'Bwana A Joined: Nov 2011 Posts: 30,957 Colorado	Originally Posted by MontanaMarine Yeah, 6mm ARC is your 'easy button'. Yea. I think that's the button I'd hit. You didn't use logic or reason to get into this opinion, I cannot use logic or reason to get you out of it. You cannot over estimate the unimportance of nearly everything. John Maxwell

Re: Considering building a 6 x 6.8 RickyBobby #15728637 01/31/21
Joined: Jan 2005 Posts: 57,475 Alaska R rost495 Campfire Kahuna
rost495 Campfire Kahuna R Joined: Jan 2005 Posts: 57,475 Alaska	I've got one of the first 6 WOA. Works fine. Haven't shot it in years but no particular reason. Shot accurately. First load I picked with 85 tsx was around half inch at 100 for 5. Never went past that. I'd likely go the 6 arc also today unless I had a bunch of 6.8 brass or such. Dang I can kick myself for not buying a 1000 fired 6.8s... LOL. We can keep Larry Root and all his idiotic blabber and user names on here, but we can't get Ralph back..... Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, over....

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Re: Considering building a 6 x 6.8 RickyBobby #15728704 01/31/21
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BobBrown Campfire Outfitter B Joined: Jun 2020 Posts: 10,840 USA	6 ARC is 7.62x39 brass? I’d much rather be looking for that brass than that cluster fugk 6.8 spc 😂🤣 FUGK CCP It’s time to WAKE UP GOD BLESS THE USA WWG1WGA THERE ARE NO COINCIDENCES

Re: Considering building a 6 x 6.8 BobBrown #15728893 01/31/21
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joshf303 Campfire Tracker J Joined: Feb 2009 Posts: 4,531 South TX	Originally Posted by BobBrown 6 ARC is 7.62x39 brass? I’d much rather be looking for that brass than that cluster fugk 6.8 spc 😂🤣 Not sure you can take it down that far, but 6.5 Grendel converts down easy. Not that 6.5 Grendel is that much easier to find...

Re: Considering building a 6 x 6.8 joshf303 #15730694 02/01/21
Joined: Jan 2005 Posts: 57,475 Alaska R rost495 Campfire Kahuna
rost495 Campfire Kahuna R Joined: Jan 2005 Posts: 57,475 Alaska	Originally Posted by joshf303 Originally Posted by BobBrown 6 ARC is 7.62x39 brass? I’d much rather be looking for that brass than that cluster fugk 6.8 spc 😂🤣 Not sure you can take it down that far, but 6.5 Grendel converts down easy. Not that 6.5 Grendel is that much easier to find... And6.5 grendel is a 6.5 PPC. Which all PPC come from..... x39.... 6.8 brass was all over the place before the panic... FWIW. Lots of em out there. Not my cup of tea as I despise .277 caliber. We can keep Larry Root and all his idiotic blabber and user names on here, but we can't get Ralph back..... Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, over....

Re: Considering building a 6 x 6.8 rost495 #15731984 02/01/21
Joined: Dec 2013 Posts: 44,234 south of south local_dirt Campfire 'Bwana
local_dirt Campfire 'Bwana Joined: Dec 2013 Posts: 44,234 south of south	Originally Posted by rost495 I've got one of the first 6 WOA. Works fine. Haven't shot it in years but no particular reason. Shot accurately. First load I picked with 85 tsx was around half inch at 100 for 5. Never went past that. I'd likely go the 6 arc also today unless I had a bunch of 6.8 brass or such. Dang I can kick myself for not buying a 1000 fired 6.8s... LOL. You and me both. Slaves get what they need. Free men get what they want. Rehabilitation is way overrated. Orwell wasn't wrong. GOA member disappointed NRA member 24HCF SEARCH

Re: Considering building a 6 x 6.8 rost495 #15732031 02/01/21
Joined: Dec 2013 Posts: 44,234 south of south local_dirt Campfire 'Bwana
local_dirt Campfire 'Bwana Joined: Dec 2013 Posts: 44,234 south of south	Originally Posted by rost495 Originally Posted by joshf303 Originally Posted by BobBrown 6 ARC is 7.62x39 brass? I’d much rather be looking for that brass than that cluster fugk 6.8 spc 😂🤣 Not sure you can take it down that far, but 6.5 Grendel converts down easy. Not that 6.5 Grendel is that much easier to find... And6.5 grendel is a 6.5 PPC. Which all PPC come from..... x39.... 6.8 brass was all over the place before the panic... FWIW. Lots of em out there. Not my cup of tea as I despise .277 caliber. Why? Slaves get what they need. Free men get what they want. Rehabilitation is way overrated. Orwell wasn't wrong. GOA member disappointed NRA member 24HCF SEARCH

Re: Considering building a 6 x 6.8 RickyBobby #15732294 02/01/21
Joined: Apr 2004 Posts: 42,752 Southern Oregon USA S Seafire Campfire 'Bwana
Seafire Campfire 'Bwana S Joined: Apr 2004 Posts: 42,752 Southern Oregon USA	Well the post caught my attention to read the thread... but like the other dozen plus guys... make life simpler and go with the 6mm Grendal.... I'm shooting the 6.5 Grendal in a Ruger Bolt action, and its been pretty much handloaded and a lot of testing.. my first batch of brass that has been use for testing... both light loads and pushed hard...are on their 20 th plus reloads now... Hornady brass, ( which I usually don't care for) is holding up very well.... Latest load I tested, was with 12.5 grain of Unique... recoils less than a 22.250... a lazy push.. but with a 100 grain bullet it had no problem putting a tight little 5 shot group at a 200 yd target....zeroed like 2 inches high at 100... didn't chronograph them due to leaving it at home... duh... I've thought about doing the Ruger Predator in the 6mm version... more varmint type of service... between the 70 gr Speer TNT, the 75 grain HPs ( that if they are still being made) from Sierra, Speer, Hornady, the 70 grain Nosler Varmaggedon, and then the various 80 grain SP and Ballistic Tip bullets out there.... there are plenty of options... even more so than the 6.5 Field... I'm also finding the Grendal case works just fine running it thru magazines intended for a 223..... See I'm busy talking myself into one as we speak.... can't find anything NOT to like about the concept... "Minus the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the Country" Marion Barry, Mayor of Wash DC “Owning guns is not a right. If it were a right, it would be in the Constitution.” ~Alexandria Ocasio Cortez

Re: Considering building a 6 x 6.8 local_dirt #15732526 02/01/21
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rost495 Campfire Kahuna R Joined: Jan 2005 Posts: 57,475 Alaska	Originally Posted by local_dirt Originally Posted by rost495 Originally Posted by joshf303 Originally Posted by BobBrown 6 ARC is 7.62x39 brass? I’d much rather be looking for that brass than that cluster fugk 6.8 spc 😂🤣 Not sure you can take it down that far, but 6.5 Grendel converts down easy. Not that 6.5 Grendel is that much easier to find... And6.5 grendel is a 6.5 PPC. Which all PPC come from..... x39.... 6.8 brass was all over the place before the panic... FWIW. Lots of em out there. Not my cup of tea as I despise .277 caliber. Why? Stupid I know. Grew up with Elmer Keith not Jack O Connor. Didn't care for OConnor. Now I realize Elmer was a bit of an azz too. add that to the most destruction from bullets on deer I'd ever seen was from 270s. And they kicked worse IE sharper than any 06 I'd ever shot. Stuff I never got over. LOL. We can keep Larry Root and all his idiotic blabber and user names on here, but we can't get Ralph back..... Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, over....

Re: Considering building a 6 x 6.8 rost495 #15732543 02/01/21
Joined: Jan 2005 Posts: 57,475 Alaska R rost495 Campfire Kahuna
rost495 Campfire Kahuna R Joined: Jan 2005 Posts: 57,475 Alaska	Laugh some more. After Bill Ruger stabbed gun owners in the back in what the 80s? 90s? I just about can't stand Ruger either. So... whats the ONLY ONLY ONLY gun I ever won? Ruger American in 270. Has a used scope. Yes its sighted in. Sits in the safe with a box of ammo handy. As a loaner backup gun. I take it along to deer camp. In case someone else forgets a rifle, or ammo or gun breaks etc... I won't shoot the thing on purpose. That said I did voluntarily buy a couple of LCPs as they fit a CHL niche at times. We can keep Larry Root and all his idiotic blabber and user names on here, but we can't get Ralph back..... Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, over....

Re: Considering building a 6 x 6.8 Seafire #15732548 02/01/21
Joined: Jan 2005 Posts: 57,475 Alaska R rost495 Campfire Kahuna
rost495 Campfire Kahuna R Joined: Jan 2005 Posts: 57,475 Alaska	Originally Posted by Seafire Well the post caught my attention to read the thread... but like the other dozen plus guys... make life simpler and go with the 6mm Grendal.... I'm shooting the 6.5 Grendal in a Ruger Bolt action, and its been pretty much handloaded and a lot of testing.. my first batch of brass that has been use for testing... both light loads and pushed hard...are on their 20 th plus reloads now... Hornady brass, ( which I usually don't care for) is holding up very well.... Latest load I tested, was with 12.5 grain of Unique... recoils less than a 22.250... a lazy push.. but with a 100 grain bullet it had no problem putting a tight little 5 shot group at a 200 yd target....zeroed like 2 inches high at 100... didn't chronograph them due to leaving it at home... duh... I've thought about doing the Ruger Predator in the 6mm version... more varmint type of service... between the 70 gr Speer TNT, the 75 grain HPs ( that if they are still being made) from Sierra, Speer, Hornady, the 70 grain Nosler Varmaggedon, and then the various 80 grain SP and Ballistic Tip bullets out there.... there are plenty of options... even more so than the 6.5 Field... I'm also finding the Grendal case works just fine running it thru magazines intended for a 223..... See I'm busy talking myself into one as we speak.... can't find anything NOT to like about the concept... 6Grendel. LMAO. A new name for 6 PPC I suppose. Like the dang blackout. It was and is the 300/221. We can keep Larry Root and all his idiotic blabber and user names on here, but we can't get Ralph back..... Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, over....

Re: Considering building a 6 x 6.8 rost495 #15732820 02/01/21
Joined: Dec 2013 Posts: 44,234 south of south local_dirt Campfire 'Bwana
local_dirt Campfire 'Bwana Joined: Dec 2013 Posts: 44,234 south of south	Originally Posted by rost495 Originally Posted by local_dirt Originally Posted by rost495 Originally Posted by joshf303 Originally Posted by BobBrown 6 ARC is 7.62x39 brass? I’d much rather be looking for that brass than that cluster fugk 6.8 spc 😂🤣 Not sure you can take it down that far, but 6.5 Grendel converts down easy. Not that 6.5 Grendel is that much easier to find... And6.5 grendel is a 6.5 PPC. Which all PPC come from..... x39.... 6.8 brass was all over the place before the panic... FWIW. Lots of em out there. Not my cup of tea as I despise .277 caliber. Why? Stupid I know. Grew up with Elmer Keith not Jack O Connor. Didn't care for OConnor. Now I realize Elmer was a bit of an azz too. add that to the most destruction from bullets on deer I'd ever seen was from 270s. And they kicked worse IE sharper than any 06 I'd ever shot. Stuff I never got over. LOL. Gotcha. Yeah, that .270 ain't exactly the wimp we like to poke fun at here. Slaves get what they need. Free men get what they want. Rehabilitation is way overrated. Orwell wasn't wrong. GOA member disappointed NRA member 24HCF SEARCH

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