6.8 Question?

[ARPATRIOT]

How much does ammo cost?Is the 6.8 gaining in popularity?As far as the 6.5/6.8 goes,did the 6.8 "take off" more???

[whaledriver]

It looks like around $1.00 per shot.

[Cold]

How much does ammo cost?Is the 6.8 gaining in popularity?As far as the 6.5/6.8 goes,did the 6.8 "take off" more???

That depends on who you ask these days online, objectively, I feel the best way to answer it for the 68 is who is doing what with it

my running list

6.8 Manufactures*

Rifles/Uppers/:
Armalite
Bushmaster
DPMS
Stag Arms
Rock River Arms
Barrett*
Noveske
Dennys Guns/GTS
MSTN
HK (416 in 6.8 being used now....)
Remington
Ruger
LWRC
Thompson/Center
Cardinal Armory
LMT
Robinson Arms
Olympic
SSK Idustries
Rainier Arms
Talon Arms
CMMG
JTAC

*
Ammo:
Silver State Armory
Hornady
Barrett
Corbon
Remington
Double Tap
Sellier & Bellot


Mags:
Barrett
PRi
C-Products
DPMS


I guess its up to each to make that decision, its clear to most the 68 at least is gaining ground, and 2009 should be interesting...

[MadDog]

As stated above, there are a number of ammo manufacturers but they still average about $1 per round. That is why I reload my own. In fact the 6.8 SPC is the only round I do reload. It now costs me less to shoot my 6.8 then it does to buy cheap Wolf ammo for my 5.56

MadDog

[FlyingHunter]

You can regularly find deals from Silver State Armory, Cheaper than dirt, and Midway USA for around 15.50 -17.50 per box of 20. I recently bought 10 boxes from SSA for 16.50 box for 110 gr. prohunters.

[Dave L.]

It looks like around $1.00 per shot.

For good ammo- yes, it's around $1 per shot.