6BR

[Dover_Mike]

A good friend of mine who is a bullseye shooter has the hankering for building a new rifle. In turn he wants to part ways with one that he built a few years ago and gave me the first shot at it. It is a 6MM BR. Remington action, Hart barrel, Jewel trigger, Bell and Carlson stock, beautiful rifle. I am not really familiar with this round but, he says that it is a super easy caliber to reload, basically 30ish gn of Varget and shoot away. Was wanting to know if anyone on here had any input on the round, and what is their overall opinion of it.

Thanks.

 

[keystonecop]

That's a bullet that's capable of an easy 2 inch group at 600 yds
I am thinking of building ins myself
Make it a dual purpose gun
One for hunting n one for shooting long range
How many rounds down the barrel of the gun?
Usual life expectancy of that barrel is approx 2000 rounds give or take a few
U need to look at the price of dies and brass also
I'm no expert on this gun this is just a little I know about them
I'd personall ask Mr Big he is the TnDeer resident expert on this round

 

[mr.big]

6BR case is a 308 case shortened an 1/2 inch to 1.550 and uses a small primer like a 223,,the Lapua 6BR brass is probably the strongest and most uniform brass made in the world,,

it is very good on how much speed you get per gr of powder and accuracy is very good and very easy to get,,just about any powder and bullet will shoot good but fine tuned it is extremely accurate,,

load I am shooting now is 29 grs H4895 at 2850 fps with 105 Berger VLD and getting around 1/2inch groups at 300 yards,,at 600 it will shoot as good as you can read wind,,

 

[mr.big]

did a little tweaking today and with 29.6 H4895 and 105 VLD put 10 in a row on a dot the size of a quarter at 300 yards,,

the BC of the 105 VLD-H is .532 which is like a 180 gr 30 cal and at 2900 fps the 105 will cut through the wind better than a 180 gr 30-06 loaded over max,,it is cheap to shoot,accurate and recoil is minimal,,

 

[smalljawbasser]

It's a lot of fun.

They are hard, but not impossible to build as a repeater. That's the only downside you'll ever find with a 6br.

 

[Dover_Mike]

Thank you guys for the input. I ended up getting the rifle, and it shoots like a dream. I was shooting some loads that were given to me so this weekend I will get on the bench and start making a few of my own.

Mr. Big, I am guessing that you have tried different variants of powder on this cartridge? Did you try Varget at all with it? Reason I ask is that I am sitting on about 10lbs of it right now for .308 and some other calibers. I do have some H4985 and IMR4985 so I will try your recipe as well. Was you using any particular primer?

Thanks again guys, will post pics soon.

 

[mr.big]

start at about 29.5 and work up and you should find a load real fast with Varget and any good 105/7 class bullet,,I like Bergers best,,I like the CCI450 magnum primer the best ,,