11-10-2023, 04:08 PM
Far as I'm concerned, whoever was first is mostly academic to me.
"Who's on first? what's on second? third base - I don't know!"
Remington made several mis-steps in cartridge-land, the 6.8 spc, 6mm Remington, even the 260 wasn't the optimum it should have been. hornady on the other hand, has been in there trying (and succeeding most times) at new cartridge innovation/production. I'll give them credit for that.
Am I a fan of the big H? not particularly, but I'm a user. Sierra makes darn good bullets but they are sporadic in availability. It's going on 1 1/2-2 yrs since their new 6mm/100 tgk and 90 tgk have been available; and they have introduced a 120 gr "tgk" for grendel, but it's almost too long, and BC less than the eldm/sst... mimics pretty close to the Nosler for BC, so yeah I got some but not holding my breath at this point - unsure whether Sierra will have them available much of the time.
To Hornady's credit they pretty much have stuff, bullets and brass, and factory ammo, available all the time, seems like. Not necessarily top-notch but pretty good overall. And in the consumer world, available trumps "best-ness".
"Who's on first? what's on second? third base - I don't know!"
Remington made several mis-steps in cartridge-land, the 6.8 spc, 6mm Remington, even the 260 wasn't the optimum it should have been. hornady on the other hand, has been in there trying (and succeeding most times) at new cartridge innovation/production. I'll give them credit for that.
Am I a fan of the big H? not particularly, but I'm a user. Sierra makes darn good bullets but they are sporadic in availability. It's going on 1 1/2-2 yrs since their new 6mm/100 tgk and 90 tgk have been available; and they have introduced a 120 gr "tgk" for grendel, but it's almost too long, and BC less than the eldm/sst... mimics pretty close to the Nosler for BC, so yeah I got some but not holding my breath at this point - unsure whether Sierra will have them available much of the time.
To Hornady's credit they pretty much have stuff, bullets and brass, and factory ammo, available all the time, seems like. Not necessarily top-notch but pretty good overall. And in the consumer world, available trumps "best-ness".
"Down the floor, out the door, Go Brandon Go!!!!!"