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#10MinuteTalk | The 6mm GT | Best of the 6mm’s?

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4.91.5K Ratings

🗓️ 26 December 2025

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

A model of efficiency, long-range precision, and barrel life, the 6mm GT may just be the Goldilocks of 6mm cartridges. Does it sit at the top of the 6mm cartridge pile? Tune in as the guys dissect this more than intelligent cartridge.

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0:00.0

I hear that steel wringling ting tingling too.

0:07.3

That's right, gentlemen and everybody out there.

0:11.2

That singing can mean only one thing,

0:12.9

and it's time for our annual holiday cartridge talk series,

0:17.0

and we're kicking it off with a cartridge

0:19.0

that's purpose built for a ring and steel the six

0:23.6

millimeter gt gentlemen are you are you ready yes yeah yeah sort of so all right well we're gonna

0:32.0

have to start our engines because this cartridge in my, is so hot right now.

0:39.4

I think it's been hot for a while.

0:40.5

It has.

0:42.9

What's the... Is it commercial?

0:43.8

It is now.

0:44.6

Yes, Hornady.

0:45.7

Okay.

0:46.6

Sammy approved in 2022,

0:49.4

originally designed by George Gardner from GA Precision and Thomas... I don't remember Thomas's last name. But this is what the G and the T stand for, George and Thomas, by the way, for anybody who thinks it means something else. Yeah, there's a few... Get a little letdown. Well, look it up. No offense. Google. Google that. You'll find it quickly. Yep. And then Hornady brought it to market. Yeah, I mean, George, you know, they were making it, and then the people started, you know, gained some steam. People started making dyes for it and things like that. Easy, buddy. Shelf stable. Look, I knocked it down. It's fine. And, uh, and here we are today with a commercially available cartridge.

1:29.9

I mean, you can always do all the hand-loading.

1:31.4

A lot of those guys doing precision-type work are going to still do that.

1:36.1

I imagine components and brass are more readily available and things like that.

1:40.4

Yeah, there's number sources for six GT brass.

1:43.1

Not with Hornady like you like, the pre-packaged box. Right. You don't have to. How fresh is this? Very fresh. Last year. 2025 introduction. Yeah. Shows how little I pay attention, I guess. I just remember. Well, it's kind of niche, you know. It's not, uh, there's no reason that it shouldn't be a good hunting cartridge.

2:03.5

And in fact, podcast listener and good friend of mine, Jordy, he's the first guy I know that had a 6GT that hunted it.

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