Hi All,
I just watched a recent Hornady podcast on the 6mm ARC. It’s a new one posted end of March and has a LOT of new info. Especially using it in competition and comparing it to the other 6mm rounds people are running. I found it quite interesting so I posted a link at the end of the post. Especially interesting is their POV for competition in PRS and NRL, and both Gas and Bolt guns. Very detailed, lots of info.
So, I’d like to give you a report on how my BadRock 6mm ARC has been performing since I first shot in January 2022, that’s including improving my own shooting of course, which I have worked on using a combination of the BadRock and my .22 Mag trainer. I’ve finally gone over the 200-round mark on the BadRock rifle so I consider it “broken in”. It's been excellent out of the box though.
I've been doing all this work at 100 yards so I can get myself shooting better. I think I have improved enough so that my next shoot is going to be at 200 and 300 yards. At my closest "long" range you must qualify at 300 yards before going to 600 and up. Five RO-observed and measured consecutive shots at less than 2 MOA at 300 yards. Based on extrapolating dispersion from 100 yards I feel pretty confident I can qualify.
For those of you that have not seen the rifle you can look at my previous post in the Bolt Action thread here:
https://www.snipershide.com/shooting/threads/precision-rifles-show-em.6252617/page-76#post-10028778
If you want to skip the rest, the skinny is that the rifle is a hammer, it's gotten better with more shots through it, it shoots a lot better than I do, and all with factory ammo (that might change).
Here’s an image of the once fired brass so far. I can’t help but think that I just can’t get rid of it! I don’t want to reload, haven’t done it in over 20 years. I am getting tempted to go in the attic and start pulling stuff out of storage! Also, for the first time I am seeing a shortage of 6mm ARC and absurd prices. Something is up when all of a sudden 6mm ARC is more expensive than 6mm Creedmoor by $0.30 a round! Could be higher demand....
Accuracy seems to have peaked nicely. I’ll show you some targets below.
The rifle is still getting carbon dirty and I am working on that trying different cleaners, but based on “listening between the lines” in the Hornady video, I am pretty certain they are using ball powder in their ammo, which is dirtier. They did this to keep velocities up on short gas guns.
So, here are some of my recent targets. All were shot on a bipod and PRS style rear bag. No fancy bench rest bag nor fancy forward rest:
This is my best 5 shot group so far, but this was a month ago and I'm shooting better now:
My average is between these two, around ½ MOA most of the time:
This is what happens when I screw up and still happens a lot more than I would like. I shoot 2 good shots and a screw up:
And this is my best so far, which happened last Sunday – smaller than caliber - My first one with a centerfire rifle!
:
And finally this is the link to the Hornady Podcast. It is really interesting (all marketing aside):
I just watched a recent Hornady podcast on the 6mm ARC. It’s a new one posted end of March and has a LOT of new info. Especially using it in competition and comparing it to the other 6mm rounds people are running. I found it quite interesting so I posted a link at the end of the post. Especially interesting is their POV for competition in PRS and NRL, and both Gas and Bolt guns. Very detailed, lots of info.
So, I’d like to give you a report on how my BadRock 6mm ARC has been performing since I first shot in January 2022, that’s including improving my own shooting of course, which I have worked on using a combination of the BadRock and my .22 Mag trainer. I’ve finally gone over the 200-round mark on the BadRock rifle so I consider it “broken in”. It's been excellent out of the box though.
I've been doing all this work at 100 yards so I can get myself shooting better. I think I have improved enough so that my next shoot is going to be at 200 and 300 yards. At my closest "long" range you must qualify at 300 yards before going to 600 and up. Five RO-observed and measured consecutive shots at less than 2 MOA at 300 yards. Based on extrapolating dispersion from 100 yards I feel pretty confident I can qualify.
For those of you that have not seen the rifle you can look at my previous post in the Bolt Action thread here:
https://www.snipershide.com/shooting/threads/precision-rifles-show-em.6252617/page-76#post-10028778
If you want to skip the rest, the skinny is that the rifle is a hammer, it's gotten better with more shots through it, it shoots a lot better than I do, and all with factory ammo (that might change).
Here’s an image of the once fired brass so far. I can’t help but think that I just can’t get rid of it! I don’t want to reload, haven’t done it in over 20 years. I am getting tempted to go in the attic and start pulling stuff out of storage! Also, for the first time I am seeing a shortage of 6mm ARC and absurd prices. Something is up when all of a sudden 6mm ARC is more expensive than 6mm Creedmoor by $0.30 a round! Could be higher demand....
Accuracy seems to have peaked nicely. I’ll show you some targets below.
The rifle is still getting carbon dirty and I am working on that trying different cleaners, but based on “listening between the lines” in the Hornady video, I am pretty certain they are using ball powder in their ammo, which is dirtier. They did this to keep velocities up on short gas guns.
So, here are some of my recent targets. All were shot on a bipod and PRS style rear bag. No fancy bench rest bag nor fancy forward rest:
This is my best 5 shot group so far, but this was a month ago and I'm shooting better now:
My average is between these two, around ½ MOA most of the time:
This is what happens when I screw up and still happens a lot more than I would like. I shoot 2 good shots and a screw up:
And this is my best so far, which happened last Sunday – smaller than caliber - My first one with a centerfire rifle!
:
And finally this is the link to the Hornady Podcast. It is really interesting (all marketing aside):
