Rem 700 6BR

[urbanrifleman]

Will you have these in stock soon?

They are making a batch now.

 

[DaveTooley]

I have money to build this, or buy something new. I would love to do both, but would prefer to do the build.

This is the culprit. It’s already in a Boyd’s pro varmint stock. I put a different bolt knob on it, and also threaded the end of the barrel for a brake. It has a budget vortex scope on it.

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Curious if you have checked barrel clearance in the stock?

 

[J_Hensley]

Curious if you have checked barrel clearance in the stock?

I’m not really concerned with that. I intend to clearance the stock for whatever barrel profile I get.

 

[J_Hensley]

Can you guys recommend a die set?

 

[Kracken McGraw]

Can you guys recommend a die set?

What caliber did you decide on?

 

[joshb]

Can you guys recommend a die set?

Whidden! Great quality! Mine have performed flawlessly.

 

[J_Hensley]

It’s going to be 6br. I ordered some Peterson brass to whet my whistle.

 

[Kracken McGraw]

It’s going to be 6br. I ordered some Peterson brass to whet my whistle.

That’s going to be a lot of fun!

 

[J_Hensley]

I don’t want to spend a fortune on dies, I don’t shoot competitively. I’m thinking this Redding set will be just fine.

Redding Deluxe 6mm BR (Bench Rest) Full Length Sizing, Bullet Seating,

Redding 3-Die Sets are available for rifle and pistol cartridges. The pistol sets contain a full length sizing die, expander die, and bullet seating...

www.midwayusa.com

 

[shoot4fun]

I have an old beat up Rem 700 30-06 that just sits in my safe, I do not enjoy shooting it. It's an old ADL hunting rifle.

Lately I've been thinking about rebarreling to something more enjoyable to shoot. I primarily only target shoot. Max is about 200yds. I've been reading about 6BR, and think that would be a neat choice. I do hand load, so a lack of factory ammo is not an issue.

Now the tricky part.
Is this something that I can achieve with off the shelf parts? Or is it 100% necessary to have a smith put this together. I'm not looking for precision, and I'm not afraid to buy some tools.

For a DIY solution, assuming you have some knowledge on how-to, contact @urbanrifleman about one of his barrel nut barrels. I'm sure he would be happy to talk to you about them.

 

[J_Hensley]

For a DIY solution, assuming you have some knowledge on how-to, contact @urbanrifleman about one of his barrel nut barrels. I'm sure he would be happy to talk to you about them.

I plan on giving him a call this week. I want to get one of his barrel vises as well.

 

[Kracken McGraw]

I don’t want to spend a fortune on dies, I don’t shoot competitively. I’m thinking this Redding set will be just fine.

Redding Deluxe 6mm BR (Bench Rest) Full Length Sizing, Bullet Seating,

Redding 3-Die Sets are available for rifle and pistol cartridges. The pistol sets contain a full length sizing die, expander die, and bullet seating...

www.midwayusa.com

I doubt you would ever use the neck die in that set. I like the Forster sizing die with the higher set expander, then maybe a micrometer seating die of your choice.https://www.midwayusa.com/product/1010946147?pid=317718

 

[joshb]

I don’t want to spend a fortune on dies, I don’t shoot competitively. I’m thinking this Redding set will be just fine.

Redding Deluxe 6mm BR (Bench Rest) Full Length Sizing, Bullet Seating,

Redding 3-Die Sets are available for rifle and pistol cartridges. The pistol sets contain a full length sizing die, expander die, and bullet seating...

www.midwayusa.com

I mostly use a sizing die that has interchangeable bushings. Look for bushing dies. They allow you to vary neck tension or deal with different neck thickness of different manufacturers brass. Midsouth has this:

 

[Kracken McGraw]

https://www.bluecollarreloading.com...nady+dies&_ss=e&_v=1.0&variant=51818553082228
Here’s another neat package.

 

[joshb]

Then look for one of these:

 

[J_Hensley]

I have a Hornady match grade set for my 6.5 Creedmoor, that uses a bushing. I do like the bushing for neck tension. It works well.

 

[newbieshooter]

I don’t want to spend a fortune on dies, I don’t shoot competitively. I’m thinking this Redding set will be just fine.

Redding Deluxe 6mm BR (Bench Rest) Full Length Sizing, Bullet Seating,

Redding 3-Die Sets are available for rifle and pistol cartridges. The pistol sets contain a full length sizing die, expander die, and bullet seating...

www.midwayusa.com

There is a 2-die set…

Redding 6mm BR (Bench Rest), 6mm Norma BR (Bench Rest) Full Length

The Redding 2-Die Set contains a full length sizing die with decapping rod assembly and seating die with bullet guide, built-in crimping ring and...

www.midwayusa.com

 

[J_Hensley]

I keep getting ahead of myself. I need to wait to buy anything more until I’ve been through the gunshow this weekend.

 

[Allen Corneau]

I doubt you would ever use the neck die in that set.

I have the Redding Type-S neck-only and full-length dies. When I switched over to full-length sizing every time I thought my neck-only die would languish untouched. However, I have found it very useful to resize the neck tension when I pull a batch of bullets for whatever reason.

I recently wanted to do a new round of seating depth testing for my three Silhouette loads on my aging barrel. I had 15-30 rounds of each load left over from the season so I was able to pull the bullets using the Hornady cam-lock puller, resize the neck on the still-filled cases, then reseat the bullets long for use with the Wilson inline seater and arbor press at the range. Without resizing the neck there was almost no neck tension after pulling the bullets.

It may be an infrequent use case but it still comes in handy!

 

[urbanrifleman]

Don't buy anything until we talk. Would be my advice. Phone calls lead to less confusion in my experience.