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6mm varmint bullet selection
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<blockquote data-quote="Bret GRAVELINE Graveline" data-source="post: 2768703" data-attributes="member: 108926"><p>The 55 gr BT should be fine, years ago i barreled a 6-284 for a customer with 1-8 twist, and long throat for VLD bullets of the time, no load work was requested so I test fired the rifle and sent it off, A short while later I received a call from the customer, he was having accuracy issues, I shared my thoughts as to what I thought might help, told him if he couldn't find a suitable load to return the complete rifle and I would make things right for him, I was shooting the same rifle with a 1-12 twist for prairie dogs, I had a batch 55 gr BT for my rifle which was throated for the most part 70 gr bullets, if I remember correctly the BT were a little bit short of the lands, first 5 shot at the bence produced a 5 shot ragged hole, A fired 3 more groups, the combined average was right at 4 tenths</p><p>not bad for unturned random load for a long throated fast twist, the customer ordered a second fast twist barrel and told not do a thing and leave the gun alone, so its very probable the you will be fine, I always liked the Speer 70 gr TNT 6MM bullet for the red mist affect.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Bret GRAVELINE Graveline, post: 2768703, member: 108926"] The 55 gr BT should be fine, years ago i barreled a 6-284 for a customer with 1-8 twist, and long throat for VLD bullets of the time, no load work was requested so I test fired the rifle and sent it off, A short while later I received a call from the customer, he was having accuracy issues, I shared my thoughts as to what I thought might help, told him if he couldn't find a suitable load to return the complete rifle and I would make things right for him, I was shooting the same rifle with a 1-12 twist for prairie dogs, I had a batch 55 gr BT for my rifle which was throated for the most part 70 gr bullets, if I remember correctly the BT were a little bit short of the lands, first 5 shot at the bence produced a 5 shot ragged hole, A fired 3 more groups, the combined average was right at 4 tenths not bad for unturned random load for a long throated fast twist, the customer ordered a second fast twist barrel and told not do a thing and leave the gun alone, so its very probable the you will be fine, I always liked the Speer 70 gr TNT 6MM bullet for the red mist affect. [/QUOTE]
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