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#10MinuteTalk - The 6mm Vortex® – The Original Vortex Wildcat?

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4.91.5K Ratings

🗓️ 14 June 2022

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Is there a new Vortex® wildcat cartridge in town, or an old one gone the way of so many of its wildcat siblings? Scott Parks joins Jimmy Hamilton and Mark Boardman to chat about the “6mm Vortex” – a 6mm cartridge he developed after countless hours of reloading and bullet-sending range time, trying unsuccessfully to get the performance he wanted from existing options.

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0:00.0

What is up, everybody? Jim to my right. Mr. Scott parks across from us. You know, Scott,

0:07.6

Jim and I were wild catters. You're in the presence of wild catters. We did that thing

0:12.7

called the 65 BC that we're still working on. But it sounds like in talking to you, you're

0:19.2

a bit of a wild catter yourself. You're working on a wild cat before the BC. Would that be

0:25.0

Jim? I know. Anyway, Scott, what's going on? You were this wild cat called the... Well, some

0:32.8

people call it the 6-4-Tex. The dreamer print, just because I did the specs on it, is called

0:39.6

the 6-Parks. Oh, really? Get into the fine print. Or maybe it's vice versa. Maybe the print

0:46.3

says 6-4-Tex. I think that's what it is. The print says 6-4-Tex, but everybody I shot

0:51.0

with just called it the 6-Parks. You'll park see. Okay, gotcha. Gotcha. I didn't tell it.

0:56.8

Let's call it anything. This is a long time ago. This isn't new, though. This is 2012-ish. Yeah.

1:05.6

Back, kind of the height of your shooting. Yeah. Yeah. So, Scott, we brought you on today.

1:12.1

And normally, we'll talk with... Because we thought we could give you some advice. Well, we thought

1:16.7

that. Yeah, that. But we normally talk with Ryan Muggenheim about cartridges on here. However,

1:21.8

the 6-4-Tex, A, it's called the 6-4-Tex, or maybe the 6-Parks, depending on who you are.

1:26.5

I like 6-4-Tex. It works. It rolls off the ton well. But what's the deal with this cartridge?

1:34.8

We'd love to know, kind of, to give people an idea of how this whole wild catting process,

1:39.8

you know, like, when we're not doing it just for fun, like Mark Ryan, an idea with the 6-5 BC,

1:45.1

you were doing it actually for a reason for a competitive advantage. So, describe that whole

1:50.8

process of how it came about, and then we can get into a little bit of, like, why it never really

1:55.0

like caught on, like, wildfire, necessarily. I mean, it kind of started, too, at first.

1:59.9

Yeah. And then some things happen that it really wasn't needed anymore, I think.

2:05.0

So, what is the why behind it? What problem are you trying to solve?

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