6mm BR vs 6mm Creedmoor

[steve123]

This was a long time ago, 7-8 years, but Tubb came to a Tactical match in NM, the Scorehigh challenge. Rumor was it was his second time in one of these style of matches so not much experience in this sport.

Well he did quite well, he got 3rd place! Me, as a guy that thinks Tubb is possibly the best rifleman that's ever lived, was very happy to have gotten 2cd in that match! An acquaintance came up to me while I was getting ready to leave and said, hey you beat David Tubb, oh I said, I guess I did! Tubb did win the long range steel stage, which was all prone off the bipod, so that should show his prowess with a rifle back then.

I complain about my age but the problem is some guys I shoot with are as old as I am and they win PRS style matches with 6BR's and Dashers. If I could see better that would help but I think it's more that practice in this game plays huge dividends. Well even constantly going to matches in itself builds a momentum that is hard to compete against.

I switched from 6x47L to 6mmBR for tactical matches, mainly for the barrel life which is twice as much, but 6mmBR does shoot smaller for sure. It took some mag tweaking but I got my rifle feeding very smooth now. I don't plan on going back to 6x47L at this point.

OT a bit but my childhood doctor who I turned onto Field Target air rifle shooting is 88 years old now and does quite well at this more docile shooting sport. Gotta brag on the old guy a little bit!

 

[TAJ45]

That much freebore, should rename it 6 Dasher Weatherby

Howabout a "Dasherby...." ?

 

[Stepsjframe]

I recently built a 6br sporter on a 722 and my only regret is not building one sooner. It's the only sporter I have that genuinely approaches bench-rest accuracy. The low recoil, low powder charge, and ability for longer shot strings before overheating the barrel has me grabbing it almost every time I go shoot.

Even though you're not looking to shoot long range with it, I'd still recommend that you get a faster-twist barrel. I used a #3, 8.5 twisted Krieger with the .236 bore and it lets me shoot anything from a 70 grain TNT Speer (great, cheap benchrest style bullet for short range) to the 95 SMK's I most often shoot with it.

If you enjoy tinkering, tweaking, and getting that last bit of accuracy it might disappoint you as .5 moa takes almost no work. You can essentially take a case from the blue box, seat a CCI 450, charge, seat a bullet and shoot little groups. 6mmBR.com, accurate shooter, or whatever the site's called has many loads that work--I used the 8208 for lighter bullets, and RL 15 for heavier. I also use a Redding S die with a .266 bushing (actually chokes it down to .265) which gives it about .003" neck tension.

Thoroughly enjoyable chambering.

 

[Stepsjframe]

You may have finally gotten me to make up my mind!! Thanks!!

Not a problem, Post some Pic.
Happy shooting.

 

[Lone Hunter]

You may have finally gotten me to make up my mind!! Thanks!!

You will not regret building one. This is the only cartridge that just doing seating depth testing shot into little bitty groups with no recoil. That is not including doing the final tuning for the powder charge. The recoil, or lack of, will leave a smile on your face too. I've always shot heavy calibers and have seen the light. You will not regret it I promise.
Next one I go to will be 6 Creedmore or Dasher. The 6br will have you asking yourself why I didn't do this sooner.

 

[jaygorski]

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