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<blockquote data-quote="John Klingenberg" data-source="post: 2744098" data-attributes="member: 107749"><p>I think someone said 6.8 spc. I jumped on board before it was even really announced. I got to shoot one of the initial ones in the desert with some super secret operator types. Great idea I thought. Had to have one. Called all over and found one set of proto dies. Starline had some once fired from their testing. Borrowed a reamer from "a guy" . What did I do? I made it on a mini 30 receiver. Hey, not bad. Shot around 1.5 moa which is awesome from anything with Ruger and Mini in its name. Then a 700 bolt gun. Tried hundreds of combos. Nothing awesome, although subsonic 150 grs in front of trailboss was a tack driver. What possible use is 150 grains at less than 1100fps? The answer is there is absolutely no use at all. Everything else was crap. Then ARs started showing up on the market. Got me a CMMG. Again 1.5 to 2 moa. I bought several barrels of different makes to try. 9 twist, 10, 11, 12. 12", 14", 16", 18, 20, 22. Nope.</p><p> Rebarreled the bolt gun with a premium barrel and commercial reamer. Yep, 1.5 to 2. Years trying different combos while reading forums and articles about .5 moa guns. Pfft. I thought that cartridge is impossible and there are a lot of lying authors out there. By now I have two die sets, three reamers, mountains of brass i got from the Ft Benning DRMO and ammo, a mini, an AR with multiple uppers and a 700 in 6.8. The final nail? Nope. I had a spare Ruger American laying around last year. My pea brain says do it. So I did. Heavy Krieger, 10 twist, hours on the lathe carefully working the barrel and chamber and shank. Hours reworking a difficult 223 bolt face and making an extractor to fit. I now have a sub moa 6.8 spc. But why? Its ballistics kinda suck except with specialty high bc custom bullets from Badlands, there are several new things that beat it by a mile. I just couldn't. Let. it. win. I hate the 6.8SPC. its "special purpose" was to torture a simple minded fella for a couple decades.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="John Klingenberg, post: 2744098, member: 107749"] I think someone said 6.8 spc. I jumped on board before it was even really announced. I got to shoot one of the initial ones in the desert with some super secret operator types. Great idea I thought. Had to have one. Called all over and found one set of proto dies. Starline had some once fired from their testing. Borrowed a reamer from "a guy" . What did I do? I made it on a mini 30 receiver. Hey, not bad. Shot around 1.5 moa which is awesome from anything with Ruger and Mini in its name. Then a 700 bolt gun. Tried hundreds of combos. Nothing awesome, although subsonic 150 grs in front of trailboss was a tack driver. What possible use is 150 grains at less than 1100fps? The answer is there is absolutely no use at all. Everything else was crap. Then ARs started showing up on the market. Got me a CMMG. Again 1.5 to 2 moa. I bought several barrels of different makes to try. 9 twist, 10, 11, 12. 12", 14", 16", 18, 20, 22. Nope. Rebarreled the bolt gun with a premium barrel and commercial reamer. Yep, 1.5 to 2. Years trying different combos while reading forums and articles about .5 moa guns. Pfft. I thought that cartridge is impossible and there are a lot of lying authors out there. By now I have two die sets, three reamers, mountains of brass i got from the Ft Benning DRMO and ammo, a mini, an AR with multiple uppers and a 700 in 6.8. The final nail? Nope. I had a spare Ruger American laying around last year. My pea brain says do it. So I did. Heavy Krieger, 10 twist, hours on the lathe carefully working the barrel and chamber and shank. Hours reworking a difficult 223 bolt face and making an extractor to fit. I now have a sub moa 6.8 spc. But why? Its ballistics kinda suck except with specialty high bc custom bullets from Badlands, there are several new things that beat it by a mile. I just couldn't. Let. it. win. I hate the 6.8SPC. its "special purpose" was to torture a simple minded fella for a couple decades. [/QUOTE]
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