Havent had much experience with the hornady black stuff. I shoot 99% of the time my reloads. As your channel grows and the Lord allows, id reccomend getting into reloading. It def is a rabbit hole, but it will open up so much more possibilities for you not to mention its just satisfifying. Really enjoying these 22 Arc series you're doing. I've been very interested in the round. Gonna watch your journey with this round closely. Thanks again sir!

Great video man! keep it up :)

Great videos, man! Appreciate the common man approach. Keep it up!

The first 6.5 grendel ammo the bullets were set out to far but now the new stuff is good in 6.5 grendel, 6arc, and 22 arc

I’ve had great luck with hornady black 123 eldm in Grendel. In my bolt 6 arc it shoots ok, in my gas 6 arc it shoots like crap.

Somethin to consider, ive seen fair size accuracy swings with gas system adjustments. I found this messing with carbine and a5 buffer systems, springs and adj gas blocks trying to dial in a couple builds to be super flat and soft shooting. One of them was sub moa overgassed with the a5, drop gas down and it fell off to over 1.75moa. Another build only shot well gassed perfectly, under or overgassed it would open up. Verified w a locked down vice to take myself out of it. Wish i had a chrono to see what there was for velocity diff if any.

6.5 grendel hornady black shoots amazing out to 600 in my 24 inch AR, farthest range I have.I bought 1000 rounds of it, does well out of my 20 inch also.

Haven’t tried the black just yet but I have some on order. I think the first thing I’m gonna do once I get it is pull it apart and see if I can figure out what powder they’re using. I’m using the same bullet in my 6 arc and it’s a hammer. On a side note one of the channels I watch was noticing some velocity differences from Hornadys new stuff. (Ran a bit slower) so he reached out and the response he got was that they’ve been having issues getting powder so they tested a bunch of different stuff to find something comparable (accuracy) and switched to a different powder in the short term. But like they said it’s either stop production or switch. I think they made the right call and happy they were honest about it

I’m wanting to test out the 22arc in a bolt gun. Really want the 22 creed but for my needs the ARC would be fine. Also - for the range you shoot at and your setup you could get away with one of the cheaper Caldwell chronos. Not as fancy but they work.

I have the Black in 450 Bushmaster. It shoots fine. I think the black series of ammo is made for the AR platforms vs bolt guns.

I've been running 6 ARC for a while now and have a 22 ARC barrel on the way that Faxon is sending me. I reload and just shoot hornady black for the brass but I've always got 1.25 to 1.75 moa out of it.

I really like Hornady bullets, but I'm not sold on their factory ammo. I have one rifle that likes a Hornady factory offering. Actually, that is a discontinued ammo, the 7mm Remington Magnum Hornady 154 grain Interbond. So, right now I don't buy any Hornady factory ammo. I'm using Barnes for medium game and handloads for varmints.

Ya I had the same issue with 6.5 Grendel and the h- black

Like you, I've never been able to get Hornady ammo to perform. Never had any load in grendel, Creedmoor, 5.56 do better than an ES of 90 fps. That isn't even close in my book to being usable.

Try the 120 grain eld-m in the Grendel……..works so much better

Hornady Black has been horrible in my 6.5 Grendel’s, and 6 ARC.