6 GT vs 6 Dasher for Hunting

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Would you go with the 6 Dasher or 6 GT for hunting? Likely 18-20” barrel to shoot suppressed.

Both seem to be extremely accurate.

Both are going to have great barrel life.

Both were top scoring on RAD! I know the 6 Dasher won, but it was also in a full custom.

Both seem very forgiving and easy to load for.

High quality brass for both.

Supposedly the 6 GT was built partially for better feeding than the 6 dasher, but sounds like it may not be an issue.

6 GT has a slight edge in case capacity. May help with heavier bullets, but probably a hair more recoil. Thinking the new 116g Sierra TMK.

6 dasher is insanely popular in PRS. 6 GT is 2nd, but it’s a very distant 2nd.

6 Dasher may require special magazine.

6 GT has a badass nickname. (Gay Tiger)

I know we’re splitting hairs here between the 2 cartridges, but figured I’d ping the group and see what or why you would pick one or the other.

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Piet Milan at Impact Shooting hunts with the 6 Dasher and apparently loves it for smallish African Plains game and baboons. I think either one would be a lot of fun for Whitetail and down. Let us know what you decide!!!

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I have been thinking about the same thing for a while now I will be very interested to hear people’s thoughts. For me its going to come down to availability of brass dies and probably reamers. I feel like you can’t lose either way. Oh, and if someone makes a factory hunting rifle in either of the cartridges that will probably also help the cause.

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After watching Garret shoot the 6 Dasher in the last video, my thought went to rebarreling my 243, which is a great shooting gun. So I had ChatGPT dona compare contrast and what I came away with is that I am sticking with my 243 for now. Ammo availability and flexibility being the main reasons. 6 Dasher is thought to be the most consistently accurate of the 3, but it’s splitting hairs. I just will not be shooting out to 1000 with the 243 with the same results as I would with the 6 Dasher or GT.

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Doubt you will see a significant performance difference between the two. The GT does have more case capacity, so that might help push a mono faster if you want to hunt with a mono. Not sure how much, Barnes does not have load data for either.

I’ve got a GT, Bergara Premier Competition. I chose GT for ability to find factory ammo, good feeding, and there were no Dashers available locally.

It’s pretty heavy with both a heavy barrel and heavy chassis. I’m debating getting a lightweight stock for it. I haven’t really seen Factory offerings for lightweight hunting rifles in the GT

Shoots great.

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The 6 GT was made for better feeding than the Dasher, but while it was being developed, better mags came out for the Dasher. I haven’t found feeding to be an issue at all.

I’m getting 2950fps with a 22” Dasher running a 105 Berger, and 3031fps in a 28” with the same load.

Also, the 6 Creed is similar if you want factory.

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So I’d be curious on your pick for the following scenario as you’ve shot all 3 of the 6mm’s I’m interested in:

Let’s say your life depends on you making one shot in deer sized vitals at 600 yards using a 6 dasher, 6 GT, or 6 CM. You can use any handload or factory load is desired. There’s a little bit of wind, but you don’t have a kestrel or similar equipment to make an exact wind call and would be making a wind call off experience. Which would you go with? Hunting rifle setup.

That’s a complex way of saying, ok, the dasher may be the most accurate and easiest to load of the 3, but do the ballistic advantages of the other 2 cartridges matter more or less than that for hit probability? What will give a hunter the best chance of making that 1 of 1 shot at distance when it matters?

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I have the 6 creed and would take that any day. It’s a pick your poison question but if you need to purchase ammo, 6 creed is available for sale.

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That is an interesting proposition. I am in the middle of a 25-06 AI build and expecting 3400+ fps from a 105gr high BC bullet. Actually a 130gr class bullet is still well north of the speed from either 6mm. The 5-06 AI 105gr has significantly less drop and windage, but the proof will be in the test results for speed and accuracy.