There is a guy selling 36 boxes of 6.8 SPC in the firearms classifieds

Offer him $ 1 a round

720 rounds ought to keep you treading 6.8 SPC waters till you see what prices do ….

I remember around ‘07-‘10 that 6.8 was very popular. My first AR was a 6.8 and not a 5.56. I can’t tell you how many years it’s been since I shot it. I loaded up some test rounds 3 years ago and they’re still sitting there.

It’s weird I don’t pig hunt more often with it since I think it’s a great round for it.

Doesn't really matter what AR cartridge anyone is shooting, run a brass catcher!

Often times the brass is around half the cost of a loaded round. Save 5.56mm

I have loaded some quite tight shooting 7.62X39 on Starline brass.

I've still got 2k Speer Gold Dots to load for my 6.8. I'm good for a while, probably won't ever get rid of the caliber entirely.

Yup! Brass catcher.

Just for the record, I do not concur. Lol!

Also, Grendel is a great concept but every one I've ever been around suffered from mag failures (if you're actually using them and getting them dirty.) 6.8 is still a more dependable platform if you don't want 556.

Who makes a good brass catcher?

I have been running two Grendels for years now and have never had a mag failure. Yes I actually use them and load around 200 rounds at a time. What crappy mags were you using? Bent up 5.56?

There it is! Honesty, it aint always in here.

Always good to have something in 7.62x39 in the collection. SKS for me.

I just bought a new 7.62x39 to use as my “drive around” rifle. It shoots pretty well with a Holosun 507 on it. But…..I also have a couple of 6.8s, a day gun and a night gun. I won’t be getting rid of them any time soon. I’ve killed hogs over 250 lb. with a high shoulder shot and anchored them with one shot. Federal Fusion with 115 grain bullets are my choice. I stocked up on them between panics and I have plenty left. If I want to plink, I use an AK, it will eat anything I feed it.

THIS one:


best brass catcher out there


If we can get these guys off their a$$es maybe they'll get one out there for us large-frame AR users as well.

I've never seen that one, and my initial impression is that it looks like a jam-o-matic. Watched their videos and I like what I see now. Still trying to figure out how it mounts, though.

Just get a 7.62 upper and good mags.
You may be surprised just how accurate the 7.62x39 is when shot out of something whose tolerances weren't measured with a first grader's wood ruler.
A bonus is you have a place to solidly mount a scope too.
While I have 223, 7.62x39 and 6.8 uppers, the 6.8 comes out for ALL pig hunting.
The 6.8 just kills more pigs DRT in AR platform than anything else I have used except a Tromix 458 SOCOM but that was VERY expensive to shoot in terms of ammo AND optics it killed.
I do reload and bought plenty of 120gr SSTs, 2200 powder, primers and brass (along with some other brass I got in loaded ammo) years ago so the cost per round is less for 6.8.

I use Caldwell brass catchers at the range, but usually pull them off when heading to the woods. I like the easy on/easy off.

Look I just built a 6.8 3 weeks ago. I added it to a 6 ARC, 6.5 Grendel and a 300 Ham’r. Some are day guns some are thermal equipped night guns. I have a 300 BO that I will probably get rid of. I reload for everything we shoot and since I had a stash of primers and powders it is much, much cheaper than buying already loaded ammo

It just clips onto the mag well. It's quite secure, yet easy enough to remove.

As far as jams go, it IS possible to bounce an ejected case off the interior of the brass catcher right back into the ejection port. I used mine mainly for 6mm AR (just like the 6mm ARC, only a bit different) and that happened to me once. I was going to attach a piece of cushiony tape on the inside of the catcher so that the empties can't bounce off it like that. I never got round to that, though, since I decided to do my pig hunting with rifles chambered in .260 Rem. (that's why I'm pushing for them to make the large-frame version). I never had a .223 case bounce back into the ejection port. I do believe the cushiony (something kinda thick and soft) will stop that from happening anymore.

I've used a few different types of brass catchers: the kind with the velcro attachment in a big fat NOGO. The Caldwell mesh catchers that use a small picatinny mount are okay but the mesh won't stand up to the hot brass for long. I also tried the Tac-Star which has a much more robust bag material and it won't melt, but they don't mate to the form of the action and you will spill your brass. The Brass Goat is the best I have ever used by far.