Anyone have an idea who makes this bullet? I searched for a comparable bullet made by Sierra, Remington, Hornady & Nosler. The closest was Hornady's 95gn SST but it has a red tip, not green like these. Does Hornady put different colored tips in their factory second bullets? Neither Sierra or Nosler have a flat based 6mm, 95gn bullet. Nosler tips are violet in 6mm.

       

Still learning the mysterious ways of the 6mm ARC, but was a bit surprised by the apparent pressure signs I got recently when shooting handloads out of the Savage Axis II. Using once-fired cases with necks uniformed and full-length sized in Hornady dies, I loaded LVR over CCI 400 primers with the Berger 95-grain VLD to a COAL of 2.250".  I started with 30 grains, with no signs of pressure. With 30.5 grains of LVR, I noticed very slightly increased bolt lift and some primer cratering. Accuracy was so-so, with three-shot groups at just under one inch. I moved up to the 31-grain loads and the first round gave what I interpret was as close to a pierced primer as I care to get, with the primer appearing to have been struck with a small, round punch and enough gas released to darken the hole. Needless to say, I took the rest of those loads home to tear down. Before leaving, I fired a half box of the Hornady 108-grain ELD Match and put four into about .4 inch with a fifth a quarter inch away, but the wind was quartering from behind at about 15 mph and I confess I am still getting used to the rifle. 
In the photo, the two cases on the left were loaded with 30.5 grains, the one on the right with 31. I arrived at the 31-grain load by extrapolating (I know, bad me) from the Hornady bolt gun data showing a maximum of 31.4 grains for their 100-grain Interlock BTSP hunting bullet and 30.8 grains max for their 103-105-grain Match bullets. 
By the way, the two cases at left were from factory loads initially fired from an AR, and I scrounged them up; hence the roughed up rims.
Anyway, I would like to hear from others who might be running the Berger 95s with LVR.

...500 box of Sierra 107 SMK's arrived and started initial prep work to load & test.  Measured for "touch point" in my barrel (20" BalAdv) and they averaged 1.7574" CBTO and a corresponding 2.30795" COAL.  I have to admit, the Sierra's had near perfect CBTO measurements, but the tips had COAL variation ranging from 2.303" to 2.310". 

I also tested just how long I could make them so that they still fit in my magazines.  I ended up having to seat them to a MAX COAL of 2.269"-2.270" in order to fit in both magazines with clearance for the tips, the E-Lander being just a tad shorter than the Duramag.  I tested by putting 3 empty cases in, followed by the dummy round in both left & right feed positions.  I also tested by loading more empty cases on top to push the dummy round down to and beyond the curve in the magazine, which is where binding could occur.  If the tip made a scratch mark on the mag, I'd adjust my seating stem down .02" then try again but on opposite feed side so if touching a fresh mark would be made. 

At this COAL they will be jumping 0.04".  Hopefully the alleged "jump tolerance" of the SMK line holds true with this bullet.  This will put the junction of the bullets boat tail & bearing surface right about at the casings neck/shoulder junction and base of bullet right at or just below the casings shoulder/body junction.  This is less intrusive into the powder column than the 108 ELD-M, 105 RDF & Berger 105 VLD.   I'll be testing these with Lever.  

I'll follow up once I am able to get out to test.

Howdy!

Been lurking here for a while, but finally decided to join.  I only have one 6mm ARC setup (so far) - an AR upper I built - but LOVING this round out to 900yds (so far).

All of these mags are VERY lightly used - less than 200rds combined have cycled through them.  Basically, this sale is for four 25-rd Geissele 6mm ARC mags at below Brownells' price, plus four ASC 15-rd mags thrown in almost for free, plus a little something to cover my shipping cost.  All of these mags function great, but I have decided to standardize with Geissele 15rd mags.......  ALL of the mags shown below for $240 shipped priority mail (reduced from $275).  USPS money order, or Paypal "to a friend".

Please email lgully at protonmail dot com if you're interested.  (BTW, I have a bunch of feedback at ar15.com and gunbroker - ask and I'll send you links)

Thanks!

Not sure this is the right place to post this but I figured it would be seen here.



This thing looks very intriguing to me, I really like the concept.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GPcSZWB...-ClassJohn

So Wilson released there 6mm ARC FLS bushing dies a month or two back.

Anyway placed an order for a set with the 0.266 bushings  ( loaded 103gr ELD-X came up at 0.268)

Keen to see how much better these are over the Hornady dies......... and YES I think its time to do some light neck turning to take advantage of the dies, hopefully I can get some more consistent neck tension.......

https://lewilson.com/wilson-full-length-...shing-type

Taking a poll to see how wide spread the 6 arc "magnum" ring near the case head is.  Vote yes if you have had it happen on your brass, no if not.

A guy on Snipershide is wanting to know about anyone personal experience with the Lilja 12.5 ARC barrel from Six Sigma.

Come to think of it, so ams I!

Can anyone help?

All,

What is the shelve life of a powder open and unopened?  I read that VihtaVouri is 10 years sealed.