I've been looking at a fast 6mm for a while now and finally got my hands on 300 of the 115gr berger vld's. The purpose of this rifle is pronghorn, coyotes and general fun long range shooting - no high volume shooting at all.
***I need some help on advice on twist rate for the speeds I'm expecting. Berger lists the recommended twist rate for this bullet as 1-7, which when I run the numbers on 3,450 fps (pretty realistic I think) that lines up correctly.
All of the barrels I can find are 1-7.5 twist. So, I can either shoot the 105 berger vld's around 3,600 fps (which may be too much speed and risk explosions on impact) or be borderline on the twist with the 115's and maybe run them fast enough to stabilize them?
The other thought I had was to run an 8 twist, which a lot of guys are doing, and run 90gr accubonds really fast - 3,700-3,800 fps. Hopefully they would hold together at those speeds? Makes me wonder if excellent accuracy is attainable with that much powder and that small of a bullet...
I live in Texas at 600 ft elevation but hunt in South Texas at 0 ft elevation often - and I will hunt pronghorn in NM at 4,000ft yearly with this rig.
Thanks for any help you guys can provide!
***I need some help on advice on twist rate for the speeds I'm expecting. Berger lists the recommended twist rate for this bullet as 1-7, which when I run the numbers on 3,450 fps (pretty realistic I think) that lines up correctly.
All of the barrels I can find are 1-7.5 twist. So, I can either shoot the 105 berger vld's around 3,600 fps (which may be too much speed and risk explosions on impact) or be borderline on the twist with the 115's and maybe run them fast enough to stabilize them?
The other thought I had was to run an 8 twist, which a lot of guys are doing, and run 90gr accubonds really fast - 3,700-3,800 fps. Hopefully they would hold together at those speeds? Makes me wonder if excellent accuracy is attainable with that much powder and that small of a bullet...
I live in Texas at 600 ft elevation but hunt in South Texas at 0 ft elevation often - and I will hunt pronghorn in NM at 4,000ft yearly with this rig.
Thanks for any help you guys can provide!