Wednesday, November 18, 2020

Working-with-your-hands Wednesday

 

5 comments:

ck said...

I have a new "working with my hands" project. I just backordered a 6mm ARC barrel. I've decided to convert my first AR (DPMS Oracle) from a 16" 556 to a 20" 6mm Arc. All I need is a barrel, rifle length gas tube and a Grendel Bolt carrier group (they're the same). Very accurate and stays supersonic past 1400 yards from an AR15 platform. I have a spare rifle length A2(old school) handguard and I'll put an A2 stock on it to make it a retro style, brand spanking new bullet rifle. Most excellent but it will make a third cartridge I'll be reloading.

Paco said...

Interesting. The 6mm ARC is a new one to me.

ck said...

Yeah, being an AR guy I've pretty much researched all the available cartridge's and this one is pretty interesting. It's a Hornady/Special Forces deal. Basically a Grendel necked down to .243. It flies flatter and further than anything else out of the ar15 platform. It'll be a fun project, the powder I use for 308 and 223 will work great in this one also.

Veeshir said...

I'm leery of new calibers, many seem to be a solution looking for a problem, but that looks pretty cool.
I have one I was thinking of making .300, for .300 Whisper and blackout, but I might have to think about that.
I bought a S&W M&PII for about $500. I'm seeing them for sale for $800. I might just become a (civil) war profiteer and have some cash on hand for a new upper.

ck said...

There's some interesting choices in the big slow bullet variants. The 300 Blackout is very popular, I have a couple in 762x39, and the monsters, 458 SOCOM and 50 Beowulf. I've fallen more into mid distance shooting so I've pretty well researched the Valkyrie, Grendel and both Creedmoor's. The 6mm ARC is the first one that made me jump in. I nearly got a 6.5 Creedmoor at one point but I couldn't justify using up an AR10 platform, I like the 308 too much.