6mm /.243 hunting success on Big Game

[BigThig09]

I work part time at a sporting goods store, and one of my most popular distributors shows a 110 grain tipped fusion in 6 arc as a new item. I can’t find anything else about it anywhere, not even on the Federal website. Anyone else heard anything about these? Could be a nasty deer round!

 

[omicron1792]

I work part time at a sporting goods store, and one of my most popular distributors shows a 110 grain tipped fusion in 6 arc as a new item. I can’t find anything else about it anywhere, not even on the Federal website. Anyone else heard anything about these? Could be a nasty deer round!

I love the tipped fusion in other calibers

 

[TxLite]

I work part time at a sporting goods store, and one of my most popular distributors shows a 110 grain tipped fusion in 6 arc as a new item. I can’t find anything else about it anywhere, not even on the Federal website. Anyone else heard anything about these? Could be a nasty deer round!

Sounds like it could be a shot show release? I don’t see anything else about it on Google.

Hopefully they offer it as a component for those of us that reload

 

[omicron1792]

https://www.budsgunshop.com/product_info.php/products_id/187398/fed+f6arctfs2+6arc+110gr+fusion+tipped

Definitely coming. Found it on about 20 online sites. None in stock to sell yet.

 

[TxLite]

https://www.budsgunshop.com/product_info.php/products_id/187398/fed+f6arctfs2+6arc+110gr+fusion+tipped

Definitely coming. Found it on about 20 online sites. None in stock to sell yet.

My Google-fu has failed me

 

[omicron1792]

I on

My Google-fu has failed me

I only found one site! But it had the SKU. Once I googled that a ton came up.

 

[WestTN2288]

Yall can keep that ammo, but I would love to have a couple boxes of those bullets

 

[amassi]

Sounds like it could be a shot show release? I don’t see anything else about it on Google.

Hopefully they offer it as a component for those of us that reload

They don’t seem interested in selling tipped fusion components unfortunately


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[The Guide]

They don’t seem interested in selling tipped fusion components unfortunately


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I'd like to see some 6CM ammo in addition to the 6mm ARC offering.

Jay

 

[amassi]

I'd like to see some 6CM ammo in addition to the 6mm ARC offering.

Jay

That’d be great we need more 6cm options at one time Remington listed a 109 Speer “deep impact” that I don’t think ever made it to market it may have been a predecessor to this 110.

Honestly I’d like the component for 6PRC /6 SAUM imp.


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[Chris in TN]

That’d be great we need more 6cm options at one time Remington listed a 109 Speer “deep impact” that I don’t think ever made it to market it may have been a predecessor to this 110.

Honestly I’d like the component for 6PRC /6 SAUM imp.


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If Remington is going to make 6mmcm ammo I wish they'd put out some rifles too.

There's reference to a 700 Magpul in 6mmcm but I can't find an actual rifle for sale anywhere.

I wish they made a light barreled 6mmcm, like maybe an SPS model. I really, really want to try a remarms-produced 700. Yeah, yeah, I know all the criticisms. I'm an old fudd who has shot 700s all my life. If I bought one and it didn't shoot well I'd just rebarrel it. I'd just like to give a remarms-production 700 an honest evaluation.

 

[Junkel87]

Well it’s not exactly big game but here’s a whitetail doe I took today with a 115 dtac with deep cut nose ring. Shot out of a 6 prc going 2980. Shot was about 50 yards. Pics are exit wound. Hit her just behind the shoulder. She dropped instantly.

 

[liv3mind]

2 sets from 2 deer this morning. Both 6arc 16" barrel. First pics 103eldx est velocity 2370 entry and exit shown with internal as well. Last 2 pics with knife are 108eldm est velocity 2290, entry and exit shown, did gutless on this so no internal pics. Both deer were sub 20 yard runs. Blood trail for both looked similar.

 

[graywolf260]

It’s kind of surprising that in all these pages there aren’t many, if any, first hand reports with Barnes 95 LRX.

 

[The Guide]

It’s kind of surprising that in all these pages there aren’t many, if any, first hand reports with Barnes 95 LRX.

I've used it in the 6mm Creedmoor with good success. Factory Barnes loaded ammo. No issues killing whitetail, mule deer, and antelope. Very accurate in my rifle.

Jay

 

[Gtscotty]

Might as well go from the hardest 6mm hunt to the easiest: So there I was.... In my backyard.

Was up in a stand on my property yesterday and had this buck come in at about 45 yds in front of me at the same time that a doe was creeping up behind/under me. I could only see his head but as I was getting my rifle up, the doe spooked and bound a few times in his direction, he was watching her and took one more step exposing his neck, so I popped him in the neck. He dropped immediately paralyzed, but was still moving his head so I put one in his heart from the bottom of his chest.

About 30 minutes later a couple does came in on the same trail, stopped where he was for a while then moved on. When the first one came into a clear spot between trees at about 60yds, I shot her in the heart and she went ~20yds and piled up. I went up to the house to get my youngest son and my buggy then the neighbor and his son came over, we loaded up my two deer in the buggy, went and got a doe his boy had shot and took them all to the gutting tree.

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Performance seemed good to me, the neck shot on the buck exited as well as the quartering shot on the doe, and her heart was totally fragged. I didn't see an exit from the shot that entered into the bottom of the Buck's chest and traveled up his neck, but there was lots of pulverized sternum some heart damage and lung soup.
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The rifle was a 12.5" 6mm ARC that I had to rush to put together and sight in the weekend before, and the load was a 103gr ELDx/LVR load that I developed for my 18" ARC. MV was ~2,450 fps, about 200fps less than the same load out of the 18". What really makes it a killer though, is the chinesium camo stretch tape from Amazon.

364 days later on 11/23/25, managed to whack another backyard buck with a shorty 6mm ARC. The 12.5" KAK barrel I used last year wasn't really where I wanted it accuracy wise so I sent it back and ordered a 13" mlgs X-caliber lightweight barrel, and it has been exactly what I was looking for.

I'd been seeing this buck on cameras around the place occasionally since summer, back then he was running with two other bucks, one of which was also pretty decent. Anyway, he came up next to the knob I was on about 40 yds away, one 103gr ELDx later he trotted/ stumbled a little ways and was down. The bullet exited and left a healthy blood trail, which even had a sizeable and easily recognizable piece of lung in it.







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Son #1 helping me at the gutting tree.

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I was thinking about trying 108gr ELDms this year for shits and giggles since I have a good load for those as well, but was impressed with how uniform the performance was on the ELDx's at different ranges/velocities in one of Grendel hunter's recent videos and decided to stick with the 103s since they've been treating me well.

 

[ezwy]

364 days later on 11/23/25, managed to whack another backyard buck with a shorty 6mm ARC. The 12.5" KAK barrel I used last year wasn't really where I wanted it accuracy wise so I sent it back and ordered a 13" mlgs X-caliber lightweight barrel, and it has been exactly what I was looking for.

I'd been seeing this buck on cameras around the place occasionally since summer, back then he was running with two other bucks, one of which was also pretty decent. Anyway, he came up next to the knob I was on about 40 yds away, one 103gr ELDx later he trotted/ stumbled a little ways and was down. The bullet exited and left a healthy blood trail, which even had a sizeable and easily recognizable piece of lung in it.

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Son #1 helping me at the gutting tree.
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I was thinking about trying 108gr ELDms this year for shits and giggles since I have a good load for those as well, but was impressed with how uniform the performance was on the ELDx's at different ranges/velocities in one of Grendel hunter's recent videos and decided to stick with the 103s since they've been treating me well.

Very nice! What is your optic?

 

[liv3mind]

I was thinking about trying 108gr ELDms this year for shits and giggles since I have a good load for those as well, but was impressed with how uniform the performance was on the ELDx's at different ranges/velocities in one of Grendel hunter's recent videos and decided to stick with the 103s since they've been treating me well.

Awesome! I shot 2 deer back to back yesterday with 103eldx and 108eldm at almost identical distance. I only gutted the eldx, but comparing entry and exit the eldx seemed to do slightly more damage. Entry had more bruising, exit was a little bigger.

 

[Speaks]

So in theory both the 108 eldm and 103 eldx perform well most of the time but rare failures can happen with eldm and less likely with eldx?

 

[Gtscotty]

They don’t seem interested in selling tipped fusion components unfortunately


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I've seen 7mm tipped fusion bullets in blem or pulled form at American Reloading a few times, but it's pretty rare. I will be keeping an eye out there for these 110gr tipped fusions though, seems like a very interesting bullet, I'd love to load some up.

Very nice! What is your optic?

It's a PA SLX 1-6x24 green fiber dot with the ACSS Mil nova reticle. It's a fairly recent addition to the stable, but I really like it for the price thus far, might pick up another one with a red dot instead of green to go with it.

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