question about 6mm remmington

[Ableshooter]

I am wondering if anyone has any info on the ballistics or loads using a Nosler 6mm 55grain ballistic silvertip in a 6mm remmington. I can not find any info on loads for the 6mm remmington weighing less than 70 grains. If anyone has any info or knows where I can find it I would appreciate it. Thanks

[Oldbushman]

Try a starting load of 41.4 gns of Varget with a max load of 46gns for a mv of 4014FPS with the nosler 55gn pill


Dave

[versifier]

My Sierra manual has a bunch for 55 & 60gr loads. PM me an edress & I'll scan it and send it to you.

[Ableshooter]

Thanks a lot for the info. It was just what I needed.

[Oldbushman]

It's a funny thing the 6mm never took off in Auz ! I had one for years & everybody else favored the .243 ! I have always prefered the 6mm over the .243 . The biggest mistake I ever made was selling it as it was a Mod 788 left hand & it shot like steam ! It was one of those things that you do in a moment of weakness A mates son got a start in a pet food shooting Camp & needed a good Donkey rifle so I let him have it cheap to give him a start in the industry !

Dave

[versifier]

Dave, you probably know I worship the venerable 788. I almost start spouting Shakespeare when I think of them. I found a beautiful LH .308 and gave it to my brother, the family's southpaw, and he sold it to one of his friends in preference to his Win88. AAARRRGGGHHH!!!
6mmRem never really took off here either and I have two possible reasons. It was first marketed here as a varmint round with the wrong twist, so right off everyone wanted the .243 for a deer rifle. By the time Remington smartened up and changed the name and twist rate, everyone had their minds made up. Also, in the 60's and early 70's there was a ton of cheap mil .308 brass available and easily necked down. Unfired brass used to be relatively more expensive, as were the factory offerings, so the .243 got the reputation as a "handloader's" rifle. This does seem stupid on the face of it as the longer neck of the 6mm/.244 is more loader friendly, easier on the throats, and easier for long cast boolits. More places stocked a much greater variety of .243 ammo, too, so you could be sure of finding some if you were hunting far from home and found yourself needing some. Even today, you can always find .30-30, .30-06, .308, and .243 in stock when anything else is up to the whims and opinions of whoever is ordering it. The next most common around here are .270, .280, 7-08, .223, .22-250, .35Rem, and maybe .32spec and .45-70 or .444Mar. I'm sure preferences are different in other parts of the country, but we are thickly wooded here and 90% of the shots are within 50yds - 100 is a long shot. The point is, 6mm is hard to find in small shops and easiest to get by mail order. It is becoming a handloader's ony proposition.

[Oldbushman]

Yeah my first 6mm was marketed as a .244 & we had the same thing over here so far as cheap mil brass (though it was berdan primed ) The Gun scribes over here sang the praises of the .243 & forgot the 6mm/.244 ! The funny thing about my 788 was I wanted one in .308 but the store I had gone to only had the 6mm & would have had to get the other brought from the other side of Adelaide & as I hate Adelaide with a passion I took the 6mm & fell in love with it ! Over here its .223 ,22-250 ,243,270,8mm, 303 ,30-30 & 30-06 that seem to be the flavor of the month at the moment

Dave