Rifle for wife.

[badhabit]

My wife and I are looking into 300/600yd. open matches at a nearby range. Mainly for fun and good practice, nothing to serious. But I need to fit my wife up with a rifle. I have a remington 722 .257 ackley that I have laying around in need of a new barrel. Been kicking around the idea of using this action for her rifle. New barrel, stock, trigger, block the short magazine and just have her single load. But I cant decide on a caliber. She does not enjoy recoil and I have alot of .257 brass dies bullets. Should I just go back to this or sell the dies and chamber in ? Any of your wives, kids compete in this what do they use. Need to fix her up so I can get a new toy!

[Broz]

I saw the title and thought you made a trade...


Sorry, I had to.

Jeff

[James H]

For 300 to 600 yards I would recommend the 6BR, very accurate and little recoil.
If you may stretch it to 1000 I would look at the 6 Dasher, 6 BRX, 6x47 Lapua, 6.5x47 Lapua, 6.5 Creedmoor or 6mm Creedmoor. I am going to try and get my son shooting the 6mm Creedmoor this year(6.5 Creedmoor necked down to 6mm).

James

[badhabit]

Ya I have thought of the 6BR, 6.5x47. I need good case and barrel life. Also thought of the 260 rem. Any thoughts on this cartridge for this?

[Buffalobob]

Shawn Carlock is over in Rathburn, Idaho. He builds some mean 260's. He competes with them in various kinds of matches and has done well. One lady shot a bull elk at an unbelievable distance with a 260 he built. The story is up in the hunting and shooting section.

With a brake and a good recoil pad a 260 should be very docile.

My daughter shoots a 308 in F class with no brake, but does use a gel shoulder pad because after 50-60 rounds it becomes very tiresome to absorb that recoil.

[WildcatB]

Don't overlook a .243 or .243 AI

Here's a good article from 6mmbr:

6mmbr article




Paul

[trebark]

+1 on the 260 or 243. If I had to choose between these two, I would lean towards the .260 for it's versatility of applications.