6mm PPC Resale value?

[nwflycaster]

Last off season I had a 6mm PPC built for me to compete at my local ranges monthly winter prone matches held at 100 yds. After spending a small fortune on the project I receive the rifle, work up a load that I am very pleased with (5 shot groups ranging from 0.06" - 0.11") and I'm ready for the match season to start this past November. Now as my luck would have it, the matches have been discontinued, oh the joy, and here I sit with a rifle that I cannot use unless I want to enter into the clubs benchrest matches. I thought about doing that but benchrest shooting isn't really my thing.
Ive only shot 360 rounds through it and if I don't have to take a bath on it I would sell it to pay for the 6mm BR that will soon be replacing it to shoot in some 500 and 600 yard matches . What I have is as follows:

BAT action, scope mount, and trigger guard
McMillan Prone Stock
Lilja barrel
Jewel trigger
Nightforce 12 - 42 x56 scope

The only thing working against me is the prone stock, and not having a benchrest stock, otherwise I think I would have an easy time selling it.

 

[Catfish]

If you really don`t have to sell it I would recomand that you just sit on it and talk about it around untill you find someone looking for something like that. To sell it quick I would guess that you will take a real bath.

 

[GSPV]

OK, *most* 6PPCs are for Light Varmint / Sporter class. That's 10.5 pounds. I don't think any reasonable profile/stock combo is going to make that with a NF scope.

I think you'll find it easy to sell the NF for more or less what you have in it, or keep it. It is very, very commonly used in the long-range games.

Your stock and the 6PPC combo go together like oil and water. They are each fine individually, but do not go together.

Since you built this for prone, I guess it is a right bolt, right port, right eject? You'll find it more common to be RB/LP/RE for the benchrest crowd. The RP is going to hurt you.

Maybe you could sell the barrel but keep the action, stock and NF and use it as a basis for your long range build?

Else, you'll probably sell the barreled action, stock and NF separately.

Just random thoughts,

Greg J.

 

[bozo699]

OK, *most* 6PPCs are for Light Varmint / Sporter class. That's 10.5 pounds. I don't think any reasonable profile/stock combo is going to make that with a NF scope.

I think you'll find it easy to sell the NF for more or less what you have in it, or keep it. It is very, very commonly used in the long-range games.

Your stock and the 6PPC combo go together like oil and water. They are each fine individually, but do not go together.

Since you built this for prone, I guess it is a right bolt, right port, right eject? You'll find it more common to be RB/LP/RE for the benchrest crowd. The RP is going to hurt you.

Maybe you could sell the barrel but keep the action, stock and NF and use it as a basis for your long range build?

Else, you'll probably sell the barreled action, stock and NF separately.

Just random thoughts,

Greg J.

Greg is spot on here, sell the barrel, have your bolt face turned to accommodate the 6br if it isn't already and build your 6br on your setup
Wayne.

 

[AusFclass]

what twist is your barrel? you could have the chamber/ bolface opened up to suit 6br. . .

 

[GSPV]

Good point. Since it's a 6PPC and set up for 100 yards, I assumed it was a 1:13 to 1:14 twist.

That's obviously not fast enough for bullets that are going to work at 600.

 

[Minesweeper3433]

(5 shot groups ranging from 0.06" - 0.11")

Shoot it in the bench matches.

 

[bozo699]

(5 shot groups ranging from 0.06" - 0.11")

Shoot it in the bench matches.

What are you thinking?? I don't want him shooting in any of my matches, let him sell it,...hell I buy it
Wayne.

 

[GSPV]

Good point. OP said benchrest wasn't his thing, but if he can do anything like that for 5 groups, he's a winner. Winning is just about everyone's thing.

 

[nwflycaster]

Yes, the barrel is a 14 twist. The longer range stuff I will be shooting is strictly iron sights that is why I am thinking of selling it. If I kept it and reused the stock and trigger I would still be adding the cost of a new barrel, a reworked action (I'm told thats about 500 bucks) and adding the iron match sights. So if I reuse parts I am looking at an expense of roughly $2200 - $2500 and having $2000 worth of parts sitting in my safe, or just add the new rifle at an expense of roughly $4000. If I go the latter rout at least I could shoot the benchrest matches if I choose.

Unfortunately the groups in the 0.06" - 0.11" range were with my last lot of powder and I cannot find a load that good consistently with the new lot. With the newer lot I am in the 0.11" - 0.16" range with most falling right in the middle and cannot seam to find the magical answer to improve it.

 

[WyleWD]

Unfortunately the groups in the 0.06" - 0.11" range were with my last lot of powder and I cannot find a load that good consistently with the new lot. With the newer lot I am in the 0.11" - 0.16" range with most falling right in the middle and cannot seam to find the magical answer to improve it.

Even with a .11-.16" range group from prone, you should be able to sell that thing for REALLY decent money. There are some that would buy that would pay good money for it even if it had a broomstick for a stock if it would shoot groups like that. That's good shootin'. WD

 

[nwflycaster]

The groups I mentioned were shot from a bench. If I could do that from the prone position you would be looking at my ugly mug on a Wheaties box.

 

[STSClays]

So what did you end up doing?