The 6.8 SPC Rifle

Here's another important video from the Personal Defense Network. All right, Ken, I've got this 6.8 here in my hands. I actually haven't fired one yet. Why don't you tell me a little bit more about it before we try it out here. Okay. This is an interesting piece. This is a POF lower, pictogram lower. They're new, they're made out of billet aluminum. This is a John Noveske upper. It's a seven and a half inch Diplomat barrel. It's a polygonal rifle. It chambers a 6.8 SPC cartridge, Remington cartridge. This one happens to be manufactured by Silver State Armory. They were one of the leading people that manufactured to help kind of get some of the kinks out of this cartridge. It is a replacement for improved ballistic, terminal ballistics. 115 grain projectile versus a 55 grain projectile for a .223 round, as would be used in a standard M16 and all the variants. Found that it was designed in conjunction with Remington and others in the special operations community to try to find something to help give us more fire power and an M16 platform that would not change any components. And use the 7.62x39 bolt for the AK, like the one that Colt built. And all was planned around using existing magazine technology. Unfortunately the mags, they swelled up because aluminum, they had to go to steel. So that was the one minor tweak about this thing that just doesn't quite send it home to the guys just yet. But the ballistics and all, the ease of shooting, it's not such a violent on the recoil, not such high pressure. Much more stable, much more accurate. A heck of a lot more knock down power. That it's really sustaining a following and now we've got five and six companies making cartridges. There's about 15 companies building the AR uppers and lowers. You can buy an upper for your existing gun and a bolt or buy a complete gun. And Silver State Armory is ramped up and got, they got Barnes bullets that are bonded, they got frangible, they got military, like standard ball. Hornady's building a TAP round, two of those. So basically, we could take our existing ARs, M4s, whatever we've got, switch the bolt, switch the upper, get the special purpose magazines and we're all set. That's correct. This would be appropriate for defense, for hunting, for all kinds of things. Absolutely. And you got a 115 grain projectile running at about 2850 feet per second. Okay, let's try it out. Go ahead. How's that? Feels great. And those holes certainly look a little bigger than .223. A lot less recoil, real-- Yeah it is, I'm surprised how controllable it is, even in this setup. Of course, this is an SBR setup, that if someone wanted to have this type of firearm, they of course could file with the right permitting process and get the forms done and get this. Of course the uppers are available in standard lengths, I'm assuming. Correct, they are available in a 7.5. This is a Diplomat, which is used for personal protection as you've done in your career. They come in a 7.5, a 10.5 CQB, a 12.5 CQB, a 14.5 Afghan, 16.5 standard configuration and a 20 inch SPR. Okay which would, if someone was interested in even more precision that what you would get out of the short barrel, that 28 should probably be a great option. Absolutely. And then what you have is, believe it or not, you got a 200, a 270 basically, projectile is what you got versus a 55 grain projectile or a standard .223 projectile. So you got 115 grains in a standard case, same length. Yep. As the 5.56x45. Definitely a little more umph right there. A lot more umph. And I would rather be standing behind this with 28 rounds a mag, then this with 30 in it. I don't wanna be standing in front of either one of 'em though. But I appreciate you lettin' me try this out. Thanks a lot Ken. You're certainly welcome. Thank you sir. Check out more videos just like this one at the Personal Defense Network.