[zahc]

My father has a 6mm remington. It's a great, amazing rifle, but we can't find ammo locally. Even cableas only had 100gr softpoints, and we really need some frangible ammo for killing varmints. Our current box of Vmax varmint ammo is dwindling.

Are there good places to buy it online? Excuse my ignorance, but I've never mailordered ammo; i don't even know if it's legal.

And why is the 6mm so damn unpopular? It's one of our best rifles, and it's older than I am!

[Polishrifleman]

Completely legal, I think there might be an age requirement but that is all.

6mm is great, the problem is that .243 has a bigger following (just look at the availabilty and choices in boxed ammo).

The lightest round Outdoormarksman has available is 80gr in 6mm. There are a lot of offerings if you want to reload. Good luck.

[zahc]

Gah. Should have bought a whole case of this hornady stuff when we found it. We are not equipped to reload, and it's not really worth it to start. Can you rechamber from 6mm to .243?

[sumpnz]

Can you rechamber from 6mm to .243?.243 is a shorter length round so you'd have to have the barrell removed and a thread or three cut off. After reinstalling the barrell you should then be able to ream it to .243 dimensions.

[Bluehawk]

Why not look up the major companies like Hornady, Winchester, Remington, etc...find a bullet weight you like... then have your neighborhood dealer order it for you or order it online?
I wouldn't rebarrel from 6mm to .243...the 6mm is an outstanding varmint and deer rifle and ballistically is somewhat superior to the .243.
I own a Remington 788 in 6mm Rem and would not part with it for all the tea in China!

[30-06 lover]

Midway USA sells ammo for the 6mm Rem. Only thing about ammo purchases online is the age requirement which can be a pain because you may have to show visual proof of age.

The round is unpopular because Remington made a major mistake when the first introduced the 6mm Rem by calling the round a .244 with a different barrel twist rate. After that mistake, Rem corrected the twist error and renamed the round the 6mm Rem, but the correction was too late because by that time the 243 had come out and people preferred it over the flawed 244. I have a 6mm in Rem 660 and love the gun. Here is a good read on the caliber with a better history...
-Mike

http://www.huntingmag.com/guns_loads/6mm_remington/

[griz]

Here is Midway's page for 6 mm:

http://www.midwayusa.com/ebrowse.exe/browse?TabID=3&Categoryid=7959&categorystring=653***690***

They have 80 grain Federal and 95 grain Hornady, everything else is 100. I suspect Midsouth and others will carry it too.

[zahc]

That midway page tells me that there are no products in that category.

I'm really looking for frangible, 75 grain varmint ammo. It appears that none exists.

[rangerruck]

do not chang it to 243, the 6mm is superior in every way conceivable. If you are near one, Academy sells it all the time. but i don't know where stores are located outside of houston.

[CB900F]

Zahc;

I don't know about commercial ammo, I reload. But for coyotes, I use the 75grain Hornady V-Max in my 6mm Remington. It's very accurate & delivers an outstanding wallop on the far end.

I just checked www.midwayusa.com & there are two, Federal & Hornady, offered there. Neither with 75 grain bullets though. Natchez has the Hornady 95 gr SST's. I don't use Graf, but you might try them & see what they're offering.

900F

[griz]

That midway page tells me that there are no products in that category.


Don't know what's wrong. It comes up with eight different loads for me.:confused:

[xtarheel]

It would cost more to rechamber than buy a basic reloading setup and you would end up with a "derated" 6mm. The 6mm is a great round, I currently have a Remington 660 I use for coyote.

[Polishrifleman]

I've got a model 600 chambered in 6mm, the ported barrel is a waste at that caliber, and at 18.5 inches with the weight it is like shooting a pellet rifle except lighter.

I think the midway list problem isn't that you can't read it, it is that there is not a load below 80 gr. and he is looking smaller.