.120 6BR

[22wd]

Came up with reloading dies and reamer for a .120 short 6BR. According to design software its 1.5% smaller than PPC. With the idea of short fat powder column I want to try it. Havnt figured how to form brass as of yet. Has any body out here done it. Thanks.

 

[Mike Casselton]

Shortened 22-250 die.

 

[JEFFPPC]

Many have tried, all have failed, but good luck and enjoy the ride.

 

[gtl1946]

My thought was,if it’s that close to a PPC ….. why ?

 

[varminthunter1]

The .100 short 6br was tried in the northwest by Allen Bench. I still have a couple of his old barrels. Most were on a Stolle Panda 14 tw shooting 65 gr bullets.

 

[jobhopper66]

Won't this essentially be a 6 Talldog albeit a little shorter? I have 2 of these and case capacity is just about the same as my 6ppc's and I believe that was the original goal. FWIW my Talldogs shoot excellent.

 

[rangertim]

Afternoon Ray, a tall dog was a 85 short I had a 100 short and 120 short from the Late Jerry Johnson of Garden City, Ks I purchased both his Rifles in 1999 the 100 short shot extremely small groups ! I still have all the stuff to form brass and dies ! More trouble to make brass but they shoot good !

 

[22wd]

ok what stuff do you use to form brass?

 

[RGRobinett]

Many have tried, all have failed, but good luck and enjoy the ride.

FRED HASECUSTER presented a credible argument against that ! RG

 

[JEFFPPC]

Would you accept.....Most All.

 

[Dusty Stevens]

Id just go with the ppc. The brass is available now unlike the time of the talldog

 

[Dave Way]

I shot one in the 80’s. It was .100” short though. 220 Russian brass had dried up. The goal was to equal the case capacity of a PPC. I actually beat a lot of PPC’s with mine. I wasn’t intimidated one bit. Neil Jones made me a form die and a set of bushings. It was like 5-6 bushings, then expand, trim, and turn.

I will look and if I still have the form die and bushings I will send them to you for free to try out.

Dave.

 

[ballpowder]

Please do it. Give us something interesting to follow. I lean towards these type of experiments myself. A lot has changed since the guys were “forced” to build tall dogs and short swifts. See what happen. I have the Butch Lambert form die set with some extra bushings made by local machinist to go to .14 caliber. You have a nice man offering you the tools to try so all that is left is build money and time.

 

[Dave Way]

I shot one in the 80’s. It was .100” short though. 220 Russian brass had dried up. The goal was to equal the case capacity of a PPC. I actually beat a lot of PPC’s with mine. I wasn’t intimidated one bit. Neil Jones made me a form die and a set of bushings. It was like 5-6 bushings, then expand, trim, and turn.

I will look and if I still have the form die and bushings I will send them to you for free to try out.

Dave.

I dug through all my Neil Jones stuff and I don’t see those form dies anymore. Sorry.

I’m sure Neil could make a set if he doesn’t have a set laying around.

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Dave.

 

[22wd]

I shot one in the 80’s. It was .100” short though. 220 Russian brass had dried up. The goal was to equal the case capacity of a PPC. I actually beat a lot of PPC’s with mine. I wasn’t intimidated one bit. Neil Jones made me a form die and a set of bushings. It was like 5-6 bushings, then expand, trim, and turn.

I will look and if I still have the form die and bushings I will send them to you for free to try out.

Dave.

sorry so long getting back but if you have the form dies I would like to try. Thanks Mark