Recs for 6mmai 300 yd

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haze10

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Its time to get serious. To date I've been messing around with different powders and bullets, but not in a documented way. So I am just going to ask someone who had more patience than I, what worked for them.

I have a Rem700 LA with Hart 1:8 x 24.5" Bull barrel. The cartridge is 6mm AI w/.272 neck.

For shooting 100 to 300 yard, what bullet and powder do you recommend. Do not want the hottest or fastest load, in fact would prefer something that is easy on the barrel.
what are you using.
 
Never shot the 6MM Improved..................

but in the 6MM Rem, I used a max loads of 4350 and 4831(NOT mixed, of course) behind the Sierra 85BTHP, and I've shot it to 600 yards and got fine accuracy. I loaded it just off the lands and came up to the load carefully; so if I were you, you may wish to start around 48-48.5 w/either of these powders and come up about 1/2 grain at a time until the groups begin to open, then drop back to the most accurate. You might also develop that load during the temperatures that are the hottest you may encounter in your territory, and if you travel anywhere else, reduce the load if the temps can be hotter, or if you'll be out for extended periods in sunshine. You might also look to developing your loads using some of Hodgdon's extreme powders, as they are less sensitive to climatic extremes. But, just because you don't have the patience to spend the time for shooting and keeping a simple card file on your developments any load I or anyone else gives you isn't going to be magic. You must ask yourself, that if you don't have the patience to address these things, why are you wasting your time handloading???? As far as easy on the barrel, most people that chamber an "Improved" cartridge do so to go....fast!! :eek: Are you just breaking in the barrel??
 
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I reload for the cost savings. I got a good deal on the rifle which is why I have it. It came with the dies. I do mostly pistol shooting and just starting to get serious with rifle. Barrel is broke in already. You say shooting. '...till the groups open up..." that assumes I can shoot good enough to see one group open up between another - which I can't. That's why I am asking for something that is known to be reasonably good so I can start somewhere. I was going to go with RL 19 or 22 as they have been good to me in other apps and hornady 85 to 95's as the cost and quality is right. But if someone feels there is a good powder bullet combo I'd like to hear from them.
 
Do you mean.............

you CAN'T SEE, or just not that far?? Get yourself some Leupold Sighting-In targets, and put the horizontal wire along the bottom of one of the black blocks, and the vertical wire along the side, this will allow you a tighter, more accurate hold, ie better groups; and sight the scope in so that your point of aim(POA) and point of impact(POI) are separated, most pepole who sight in at 100yds, the POI is usually 1-2 inches high. This target, used this way, allows many novice(and not so novice) riflemen/women to shoot smaller groups. As a pistoleer, you shot a lot of bullseye targets, and that's harder to hold steady with a rifle. You can start with sandbags, but sooner or later you should get a pedastal, and the Hart is a good entry level rest to start with, and can be retro-fitted if you decide to go into competition. The targets and that rest is the best money you'll spend, ;) Yessir.
 
Thanks, that's a good tip about the scope, I would have probably zeroed the scope deadcenter, but what you said sounds better. With a pistol I shoot very competitively, but a scoped rifle is another story. I just can't seem to get all movement out of the rifle. I'm using a Hart rest up front and doing mostly bench sitting position. I still transmit motion from my shoulder into the stock. Guess I could get a 'sled' but that to me is more like settting up a machine.
 
Get the custom.........

Rabbit ear bag for the rear, its higher and has longer ears, and it'll provide more stability to the rear of the stock, while keeping it recoiling to the rear. If its a varmint stock it slides differently from a competition stock. Yes, on a bullseye target, its difficult to keep everything accurately quartered, and if you have the two points coincident, you shoot out your POA. HTH
 
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