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Ep. 180 | Is the 6.8 the “New” 6.5

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Sports, Vortex Optics, Shooting, Scope, Gun, Long Range, Wilderness, Hunting, Riflescope, Vortex, Vortex Nation Podcast, Binoculars, Vortex Nation, Optics, Rifle

4.91.5K Ratings

🗓️ 3 May 2021

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

The new 6.8 Western is a Hot Topic (Jim’s Favorite Store) among cartridge connoisseurs. It’s so new, not a lot of folks have a ton of experience with it. On paper, it looks pretty darn good. Will it be the new 6.5? Is it everything the 270 WSM should have been. Will it knock critters down with authority at long range? Time will tell. Listen in to get our take on this new kid on the cartridge block.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Vortex Nation podcast brought to you by lovers of hunting, shooting, public

0:09.4

lands, the Second Amendment, and good food.

0:18.2

Alright everybody, we have Mr. Ryan Muccaneer in a cross table from Mark and I, and we're

0:22.6

going to be talking about cartridges here, but this isn't a 10 minute talk.

0:27.0

So we have free reign, which realistically speaking, we kind of take advantage of 10

0:32.5

minute talks.

0:33.5

Anyway, though we all know there is a real boundary somewhere around the 20 minute

0:38.2

mark.

0:39.2

Anyway, that's not really actually the intro that I had planned for this, but it ended

0:42.0

up coming out that way.

0:43.6

The real intro was something along the lines of, we discussed philosophically back

0:50.4

an episode 101, I want to even say it was, the 65 revolution.

0:55.7

We threw out some things about how 65 just seemed to be it, the thing is what everybody

1:01.1

wanted.

1:02.1

It was the answer.

1:03.7

It was essentially the Mazda Miata of cartridge calibers because Miata is always the

1:12.3

answer when it comes to cars.

1:14.6

That doesn't matter.

1:15.6

Anyway, but what's the deal with now, six, eight, we don't know, we've had umpteen million

1:22.8

it feels like requests for us to talk about the six, eight, Western, that came out relatively

1:28.5

recently.

1:29.7

And so we have, of course, everybody wanted to hear Ryan's thoughts on it.

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