Which PPC cartridge?

[Davidheart]

I have recently received a benchrest rifle wearing a Farley action and "shot out" 6PPC barrel. This barrel had performed well for its previous owner and is ready to head down the road.

My intent is to use this rifle at a local monthly 300 yard club score match and may rarely visit other events. Most shooters at the match are running 6PPC, 6 Dasher, or 6 BR.... which seems odd to me because I thought 30 caliber dominated score shooting, but I think most of these guys are just shooting what they have for the club match.

What would y'all recommend? Should I stick to the 6 PPC or go with a different variant based on the PPC bolt face? Thank you.

 

[Lkwebb]

If wind conditions arent bad a 6ppc will overcome its ballistic coefficients low. Then om the other hand when wind picks up ( which you probably know ) the heavier 30 caliber will give you a better chance...

 

[R.Morehouse]

If you have a ppc BF I would look into the 30Major ( necked up Grendel ).....I have one and it can run with my 6ppc.

Regards
Rick

 

[Davidheart]

Wind could be hard where we shoot. Usually a gusty left to right.

 

[memphistransplant]

I believe that the 30 BR is the cat's meow for 100 yard benchrest for score. The downside vs PPC is recoil, which is partially improved in a 13.5 lb gun. I wouldn't build a 10.5 lb gun in 30BR. My friend, Dan Dowling was telling me yesterday his 30BR performed poorly at 300 yards. There is a guy I saw shoot at the Cactus Classic in Phoenix the last two years who would shoot his 30 BR without sighters at 100 yards and do very well. He did not so well at 200 yards. This was for group, not score, but still I was impressed at the 30 BR short range capability. If I had to choose one over the other, I'd go with a 6PPC.

 

[762plinker]

6br/30br
talk to bart of barts bullets first.
go simple if this is your first BENCHREST rifle
and consider buying your own reamer so they re always the same.
only reamer i do not own is a 6ppc, use my 'smiths for that

 

[Davidheart]

And this is shooting at 300 yards, not 100/200. And I have a PPC bolt face, so I don't think the BR cartridges work.

 

[LHSmith]

How do you know it is shot out? I would run it this season and get a better understanding of the game and more insight of what direction to take as far as future chambering.
Another option is to rebate the BR rims for a 6 BR (my choice for 300).

 

[LCazador]

I think for 300 shooting the Grench or the 6BRA with 80-85gr. bullets and a 12 twist will do the trick. The Grench is PPC bolt face.

 

[Dusty Stevens]

Until you learn, the shot out ppc may do just fine your first season. Get a barrel on order and spend the extra money buying your equipment. You can make your action a BR boltface down the road.

 

[Davidheart]

Until you learn, the shot out ppc may do just fine your first season. Get a barrel on order and spend the extra money buying your equipment. You can make your action a BR boltface down the road.

That's a possibility. The barrel has 1500+ rounds through it. Feels like a lot. How many rounds should I expect out of a 6ppc?

 

[Dusty Stevens]

That's a possibility. The barrel has 1500+ rounds through it. Feels like a lot. How many rounds should I expect out of a 6ppc?

About 1200 if its a real good barrel. Less if it sucks. Just remember though a wore out ppc will still outshoot most shooter’s abilities. Use it to learn the wind and bench setup.

 

[JimPag]

Check out the Tackdriver results for the last 3 years in score at 300 meters. First and 2nd years score Winner Wayne France, cartridge 30WW which is almost the same as a 30BRX. Last year Bart won the score portion with his 6 BRA. There is nothing wrong shooting a 30BR at 300. In fact all IBS score records concerning 300 yards or meters both in VFS and the Hunter class were set by a 30BR.

 

[Bronsin]

All other factors aside, I would consider which one you can easily feed. MidwayUSA has N133 for 319.00/8lbs. No one has had H4198 for a long time. You could also use that PPC barrel to fireform brass.

 

[Eric Leonard]

I like the idea of shooting what you have and figure it out for a while. I was given a ppc barrel to get me started, I put 2700+ through it and it won the last UBR match it was in. I thought all barrels would go that far, the next year I had two over 2000 and both were completely gone. I now take them off by 1K, and usually still top notch, but I no longer travel out of state with something that might let me down. Last two UBR 300 yard Nationals were won with 6ppc, just my thoughts, who knows.

I won a UBR match yesterday at Buck Creek with the Bartlien I got from you last year. I still haven’t put the one for this year on yet.
After yesterdays match it has 2500 rounds on it

 

[Davidheart]

All other factors aside, I would consider which one you can easily feed. MidwayUSA has N133 for 319.00/8lbs. No one has had H4198 for a long time. You could also use that PPC barrel to fireform brass.

Forgive my ignorance... but I have two questions:

What's the point of fireforming brass to a chamber I don't have the reamer for since I'll eventually need a new barrel anyway?

Which cartridges use N133 vs H4198? Many of the guys at the local club were running Varget last I heard.

 

[Eric Leonard]

4198 for the 30BR 133 or lt32 for 6 ppc

 

[Bronsin]

Which cartridges use N133 vs H4198? Many of the guys at the local club were running Varget last I heard.

Is this a joke? You're asking about the 6PPC and don't know what N133 is for? I'm out..............

 

[R.Morehouse]

LT 32 will work for the 6ppc and the 30Major I mentioned earlier in the thread......Just Sayin'

 

[JimPag]

Since you have a Farley with a PPC bolt face you might as well forget sending it back to Farley to open up the boltface. If you want to go that route you would have to find a gunsmith that has a jig sent up for a Farley bolt if you want to open it up to .473. If it were me I'd just get another barrel chambered in 6PPC and run with it.