6x45 shooters and questions.

[5spd]

My savage has a 20" bbl, 1/9 tw., heavy sporter bbl, suppressed.
80g jsp is 2700 fps in front of h335. Very accurate.
I had a 24" and 22" barrel, but went to 20" as it's mostly a coyote, deer, goat rig, wanted a little lighter, shorter quicker swinging rig.

 

[WayneShaw]

Glad this thread is going on. I have been picking up parts for a year, new lower, stripped upper, bolt, hand guard, gas block, extension, etc. Going to turn down one of my 12 twist BR barrels. I have so many misc. 6MM bullets, and a bunch of LC brass. Should make a great spray and prey gun.

 

[joshb]

I have the itch to get a barrel spun up for a Tikka. I remembered a post here about the 6x45 Reddick that was interesting.

 

[harro]

85gn Sierra hpbt , 4895 powder , CCI primer , Starline brass
Shoots 1/2 moa at 200m

 

[Wayno]

Many years ago I picked up a secondhand Ruger M77 Boat Paddle stock 6x45, the rifle was fitted with a blued 1-10twist ex 243win barrel, it was quiet ugly with its SS action and blued pencil thin barrel. It was bargain priced and shot amazingly well with any bullet i put through it, barrel was 20" and the Freebore was massive, couldnt get near the lands with any bullet I tried. I thought it would shoot poorly but that thing shot most everything into 0.5" or better groups, it really loved Sierra 85gr HPBT gamekings and 58gr Vmax (shot both those to exactly the same POI too). I loved it so much I built another one off my Ruger M77 MKII predator 204, fitting a 23" Kreiger 1-12 twist #5 contour barrel on it. The new one is soley for Fox hunting, it shoots Sierra 55gr Blitzking @ 3,396fps with 25gr AR2207 powder, 70gr Nos Tipped Varmageddon @ 3,160fps with 24gr AR2207 and 58grVmax @ 3,350fps with 25gr AR2207. All 3 of these shoot near enough to the same POI aswell, dont need to re-sight in for different loads.

 

[nakneker]

Zack with Old Domion built one for me a little over a year ago. Worked up a load with LT-32 and 68gr Bergers and a load with 8208 and 80gr Sierra SBTs. It shoots both of those loads extremely well, this rifle has a 19“ barrel, built more for a truck gun than speed. 80 grain load is just over 2800 fps, the 68 gr load is just over 2960, if I had 24” I’m sure I could get another 100 fps.

Rifle is built on an old rem 788, Krieger barrel, McMillan stock. My son was gonna build a 222 and never did, so I had this built.

Accuracy is itty bitty, recoil is non existent. Brass life I assume to be a very long time. I’ve only loaded the 80 grain load three times but the brass doesn’t seem worked at all. Lapua brass

 

[urbanrifleman]

I havea 6 x 45 reamer now. People had asked about it.

 

[muleystalker]

Might help if you list the free bore on it so people know what bullets could be used with this particular reamer.

 

[wildcatter]

Posting here to keep this old thread info up to date.

I just purchased a Mohawk -600 Remington, It has a 23 3/4" sporter barrel. I'm using necked up LC brass, Remington 7.5 primers, and for starters, 65 grain Bib bullet. First time out I have some Benchmark that never really worked for my 6mm PPC or my 6BR, so I loaded 9 cases, 3 of each load starting at 28.0 grains, which I loaded 5 of, thinking for sure it was mild enough, going up 1/2 grain looking for pressure signs.

My results were some 3 shot groups touching for the most part, and no sign of being to hot. So I loaded 5 shots each with the hottest loads 1/2 grain apart. Then Again shot the three loads starting at 3213 fps up to 3302 for the heaviest load. All three loads shoot under 5/8" at 100 yards, and my best load has twice given me under .4" 5 shots @3290 fps average on the 3 shots I clocked.

I have tested the Sierra 85 grain HPBT Game King using Benchmark and again, had 2 shot groups almost touching. I plan to try the 2923 fps load. but for now I'm satisfied for one and done load work with the 65 grain Bib at 3290 fps. It will do what I wanted this rifle for.

I am very impressed with this little 6x45, and I expect in better weather to work with some other powders. But if I just got lucky and stumbled into its best loads, so be it, it's a winner for my purpose. I really think this load will tune and shoot even smaller! I have done no neck tension tuning, or seating depth. Easy Peasy, and better than I had expected!