6mm Remington?

[Col. Plink]

Hey y'all!

A buddy of mine recently found some 6mm Remington ammo that someone left behind, and when he asked me about it I thought he was mistaken.

6mm? Certainly he meant 7mm... or 8? But he is a precise, detail-oriented fellow so I figured he must have found something I'd never heard of. Sure enough, he found six boxes of what looks like a great cartridge. A long case that looks like it has lots of zip especially considering the caliber of the slug. Looks like a faster, flatter-trajectory version of a .243 or something.

Seems like something like this would really have caught on, but I had never even heard of it before.

Anybody have one of these that can describe its characteristics and if there are various makes and what they're like?

BTW, anyone interested in the ammo can look for a post of mine in the Trading Post - Accessories.

Thanks!

 

[gvnwst]

Seems like something like this would really have caught on, but I had never even heard of it before.

It was origingally introduced as the .244 Remington, a lot of people contribule the .243s greater success to the fact that the .244 was introuduced with slower twist barrels, so the heavier (and more suited to deer hunting) 100gr bullets couldn't be used. The rifles the .243 was offered in DID have a fast enough twist though...

Here is the wikipedia artical for it:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/6mm_Remington

 

[Dr. Tad Hussein Winslow]

6mm Rem is a fairly popular cartridge which goes back many many years. It's a .243 Win with a little extra oomph.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/6mm_Remington

http://www.gunsandammomag.com/cs/Satellite/IMO_GA/Story_C/The+6mm+Remington

http://www.gunnersden.com/index.htm.6mm-remington.html

Most people buy a rifle in this caliber for varminting or target shooting.

 

[ECVMatt]

I love the 6mm.

It was Remington's entry into the .243 realm. It was originally called the .224 Remington. They saw it as more of a deer round and put a rate of twist that would stabilize the 100 grain bullets.

Winchester was next in with the .243 Win. They saw the round as more of a general purpose round and used a rate of twist to stabilize both light and heavy bullets.

They changed the rate of twist and renamed it the 6mm Rem in order to catch up with the .243 Win., but the Winchester had already won.

It is a great round I shot it quite often....

Matt

 

[Jason_G]

6mm Rem is a fairly popular cartridge which goes back many many years. It's a .243 Win with a little extra oomph.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/6mm_Remington

http://www.gunsandammomag.com/cs/Sat...+6mm+Remington

http://www.gunnersden.com/index.htm.6mm-remington.html

Most people buy a rifle in this caliber for varminting or target shooting.

Works great on whitetails too.

IMHO, the 6mm Rem cartridge is slightly superior to the popular .243 Win in every way, especially for reloaders, but it never saw the widespread acceptance that the .243 Win did, probably because of the twist rates of the barrels that were first introduced with the cartridge, as others have said. You can still find rifles chambered for it, though most of them are Remingtons. You can usually find ammo without too many problems, too. It's a flat shooter and does a great job on deer sized game within ethical yardage.


Jason

 

[cougar1717]

My brother's first deer hunting rifle was 6mm Rem. Flat shooting, about 100fps faster than .243 Win using 100gr. bullets, and good enough for deer. The only thing it lacks is popularity.

 

[rcmodel]

It was originally called the .224 Remington. They saw it as more of a deer round and put a rate of twist that would stabilize the 100 grain bullets.

Actually, it is the other way around.
The .244 came out with a slow 1/12 twist that was great for a varmint rifle, but too slow to stabilize heavy deer bullets. The upper limit was a 90 grain at most.

Winchester went with a faster 1/10 twist and took over the market because it could be used with heavy deer bullets or light varmint bullets.

By the time Remington got around to changing to faster 1/9 twist and calling the result the 6mm Remington, the game was over and the .243 Winchester had won the sales ballgame.

From a reloading standpoint, the 6mm Remington beats the .243 Win every whichway.
More case capacity, sharper shoulder, longer neck, etc.

rc

 

[Mr_Pale_Horse]

Some gunmakers are darn talented at painting themselves into a corner, Remington in this case. I will never understand going with a slower twist in a sporting rifle. It just narrows what the gun can do, and to be honest, most folks buy one gun and try to do everything with it, and get disgusted when they cannot.

 

[rcmodel]

I will never understand going with a slower twist in a sporting rifle.

Mr. Remington at the time (Mike Walker) was first and foremost a benchrest competitor holding several world records, and a New England groundhog varmint hunter.

He not only designed the 721/722 rifles from which the 700 sprang, but he had a huge amount of input into what the end use for them was going to be.

I think he saw the .244 Rem as a heavy varmint caliber, and thats the way they went with it.

rc

 

[ECVMatt]

RC- You are right!

What was I thinking....???

Anyways, I love the 6mm and shot mine regularly....

 

[rangerruck]

not only that, but remmy was gay about it, and didnt' want anyone else to do anything with the round, so they made sure no one else could make rifles chambered for it, nor the rounds themselves. Stupids, really.
it is about 200 fps faster, than a 243, out of a 24 to 26 inch bbl, and if handloading a vld bullet, say 105 to 110 grains, that can be a huge ballistic difference downrange, especially if trying to shoot 600 to 1000 yds.
plus the brass has that extra long neck, makes for great cooling of the
powder plug, as it tries to exit the brass, into the throat area.

 

[257WM_CDL-SF]

I had a friend who took several deer with a 6MM,it did a great job.But has been awhile since I have saw one in a shop