A Little Good News For 6.8 SPC Owners

[SlamFire1]

It looks like Ruger is coming out with a Mini chambered in 6.8 SPC. As long as companies keep coming out with new products chambered for 6.8, looks like there may be hope that the prices of 6.8 will come down in the future!

[ElevatedThreat]

Originally posted by SlamFire1
It looks like Ruger is coming out with a Mini chambered in 6.8 SPC. As long as companies keep coming out with new products chambered for 6.8, looks like there may be hope that the prices of 6.8 will come down in the future!

The Ruger Minis get VERY little respect from the AR crowd on GT, but I have a Mini-30 that serves me very well indeed. It has been 100% reliable for over a decade now, and runs about 1.5 MOA at 100 yards for 5 fast shots with Remington 125-grain softpoint ammo.

I'm interested in the Mini-6.8, as I'd like a flatter trajectory than 7.62x39 without going down too much in caliber and bullet weight. But the long-term sales success of the Mini 6.8 will be dependent upon some other company (given Ruger's anti-hi-cap mag policy) bringing out a RELIABLE mag for it holding more than 5 rounds. 10 rounds would be good, 15 or 20 rounds would be better.

No, the Mini is not a true battle-rifle, but the ability to have a hi-cap mag or three in reserve for emergencies is a must-have for any self-respecting semi-auto rifle, even one used mostly for hunting.

And the Mini-6.8, with it's "socially acceptable" low-profile looks, would be a natural for guard duty and rural law enforcement -- but only with a good 20-round factory mag.

(Ruger's policy against hi-caps really puzzles me, as it undeniably depresses their sales, and doomed their line of police carbines, which had they offered 20-round factory mags would have been very popular with civilian plinkers. I guess the no-hi-caps mag policy was originally intended to be a suck-up to the anti-gun crowd, trying to avoid the dreaded "assault-rifle" label on Ruger products. But the policy failed, as Ruger's Minis are on ALL the proposed ban lists, as included in new "assault rifle" and other gun ban bills being floated in Washington -- regardless of magazine capacity.)

-ET