Comments on: Sunday GunDay: 6.8 Western — New Cartridge, New Rifles https://bulletin.accurateshooter.com/2021/01/sunday-gunday-6-8-western-new-cartridge-new-rifles/ from AccurateShooter.com Wed, 26 Aug 2026 16:26:38 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.26 By: phil https://bulletin.accurateshooter.com/2021/01/sunday-gunday-6-8-western-new-cartridge-new-rifles/comment-page-1/#comment-59305 Sat, 23 Jan 2021 14:10:55 +0000 http://bulletin.accurateshooter.com/?p=65343#comment-59305 To me for once someone actually thought about a cartridge. im glad we can start using the .277 caliber to its potential. next we need something like this done with the .257 caliber.

]]> By: Jim https://bulletin.accurateshooter.com/2021/01/sunday-gunday-6-8-western-new-cartridge-new-rifles/comment-page-1/#comment-59289 Wed, 20 Jan 2021 20:59:16 +0000 http://bulletin.accurateshooter.com/?p=65343#comment-59289 The max OAL for this thing is 2.995″. It clearly fits the M70 and X-bolt “short actions”. What other “short actions” would it fit?
Thanks
Jim

]]> By: Paul https://bulletin.accurateshooter.com/2021/01/sunday-gunday-6-8-western-new-cartridge-new-rifles/comment-page-1/#comment-59287 Tue, 19 Jan 2021 13:12:52 +0000 http://bulletin.accurateshooter.com/?p=65343#comment-59287 The pricing on these factory rifles is getting into the custom rifle range. No thanks! No logic to this chambering at all. Bring on the WSM brass!

]]> By: Dean Fay https://bulletin.accurateshooter.com/2021/01/sunday-gunday-6-8-western-new-cartridge-new-rifles/comment-page-1/#comment-59286 Tue, 19 Jan 2021 03:35:48 +0000 http://bulletin.accurateshooter.com/?p=65343#comment-59286 I have not interest in this cartridge. In fact, nothing has come down the pike recently that has caught my attention. Instead, I have been building bolt guns on older cartridges like the 358 Winchester. Maybe it’s just nostalgia but the older stuff has worked for generations and I have no need to reinvent the wheel.

]]> By: chris https://bulletin.accurateshooter.com/2021/01/sunday-gunday-6-8-western-new-cartridge-new-rifles/comment-page-1/#comment-59285 Mon, 18 Jan 2021 16:01:44 +0000 http://bulletin.accurateshooter.com/?p=65343#comment-59285 I have always been interested in new cartridges but it’s getting crazy lately with cartridges so similar that do the same thing. 0.80 shorter case? For a hunting round does it really matter if the long bullet is seated 0.80 deeper…NO. How about the 7mm Rem short mag? Better LR cartridge for big game or at least as good and aside from some LR target shooters…it’s almost extinct. This 6.8 Western will go nowhere.

]]> By: MB https://bulletin.accurateshooter.com/2021/01/sunday-gunday-6-8-western-new-cartridge-new-rifles/comment-page-1/#comment-59283 Mon, 18 Jan 2021 14:51:11 +0000 http://bulletin.accurateshooter.com/?p=65343#comment-59283 I’m getting tired of all the new cartriges that are pretty much the same as another cartrige. Not sure why ammo and rifle companies are pushing new products right now when they can’t even keep product on the shelves.

]]> By: SMB https://bulletin.accurateshooter.com/2021/01/sunday-gunday-6-8-western-new-cartridge-new-rifles/comment-page-1/#comment-59279 Sun, 17 Jan 2021 23:57:15 +0000 http://bulletin.accurateshooter.com/?p=65343#comment-59279 I like new things, but for the first time I feel like we really jumped the shark. A short 270WSM, come on. Really?

And chambered in one of the longest magazine short action rifles (the win70), which could run a 270WSM with a long bullet already with a faster twist barrel.

]]> By: Lew https://bulletin.accurateshooter.com/2021/01/sunday-gunday-6-8-western-new-cartridge-new-rifles/comment-page-1/#comment-59277 Sun, 17 Jan 2021 19:44:08 +0000 http://bulletin.accurateshooter.com/?p=65343#comment-59277 OK Great another rifle you can’t get ammo for.
Will be a sure fire success??????

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