6x47 Remington

[6pt-sika]

I'm mildly intrested in the old 6x47 Remington , The original one based on the 222 REM MAG case rather then the Lapua case .

Anyone messed with one lately ?

 

[bheadboy]

i love the 6x47on the 222m case, used it in the 70's in br and had a 40x built for a pd round not a screammer but a very accurate and
easy to load for, easy to put together a .100-.200 group shooter.

Bob

 

[6pt-sika]

At the moment I've got a circa 1972-1974 Remington 700BDL Varmint in 222 REM and was thinking if I ran across another in 222 or 223 I might get it and rebarrel it to 6x47 Remington .

Don't get me wrong I like the PPC's and BR's as well as the newer x47 Lapua's . Just kinda got intrested in trying one from the past I'd never messed with in the previouse 30 or so years .

I'll never be a competitive BR shooter but I do like to shoot at 100 yards at my local club and see how small I can get my groups .

 

[AckleymanII]

in the 40x's that had the 27" barrel, we used a load of H335 with 60g Sierra's, accuracy was very tiny groups, and barrel life was 6000+ rounds.

Having said that, a 223 AI with a 27" tube is a very user friendly cartriges and is on par with the 22 PPC in accuracy and + a little speed...another option. My 223 AI's will compete with any 22 PPC that I have owned with IMI or Lapua brass. 200 yard groups with the little 50g and 55g Nosler ballistic tips are something that most people would find hard to believe.

Benchmark and N-133 with the 50's produce groups in the high 1's and low 2's. N135 with the 55's produce groups in the 2's at 200 yards.

Sinclair sells an accuracy asset that is a 3" wide piece of metal that screws into your sling swivel that will make your gun very stable on the bags and allow you to shoot much smaller groups, easily.

Good luck!

 

[AWS]

Have you thought about a 6mm/204 Ruger it would be very much like some of the Improved versions of the 6x47 Rem. You could call it a "6x47 Rem Improved 30 degree" off the shelf dies, no fireforming and a great selection of brass.

I bought a 6x47 Rem prechamberred barrel for my savage and rechamberred it with a 22-204 Ruger reamer from another project with a 6mm pilot and used a 204 Ruger headspace guage. For a sizing die I use a Redding 204 Ruger Type S die with the guts changed out to 6mm and the throat openning openned slightly. I use the same die to load my 22-204, 6mm-204 and 25-204 just by changing expander ball and bushing.

 

[6pt-sika]

Have you thought about a 6mm/204 Ruger it would be very much like some of the Improved versions of the 6x47 Rem.

Nope hadn't thought of that and it sounds like a decent idea .

However.................................... it isn't what I want at the moment . Maybe another moment from now I;ll change my tune but not right now .

 

[6pt-sika]

Having said that, a 223 AI with a 27" tube is a very user friendly cartriges and is on par with the 22 PPC in accuracy and + a little speed...another option. My 223 AI's will compete with any 22 PPC that I have owned with IMI or Lapua brass. 200 yard groups with the little 50g and 55g Nosler ballistic tips are something that most people would find hard to believe.

Benchmark and N-133 with the 50's produce groups in the high 1's and low 2's. N135 with the 55's produce groups in the 2's at 200 yards.

Good luck!

I've been using VV N-120 in the 222 a bit and got a 3 shot group the other day with Nosler 40 BT's that was .088" . I typically don't shoot 5 shot groups until I'm further along in the process and I certainly understand some folks don't follow the same game plan . But it is what it is non the less . I gotta admit though thats only the second time I've shot a 3 shot group under a tenth . Shot the other one last summer with a Ruger #1 Lilja barreled 22-250AI I have and that one was .054" and shot with the no longer made Nosler 50 grain Solid Base .

 

[Terry]

I have some loaded ammo and brass for it.

 

[Outrider27]

in the 40x's that had the 27" barrel, we used a load of H335 with 60g Sierra's, accuracy was very tiny groups, and barrel life was 6000+ rounds.

Got a chuckle out of that. The few 6x47s I saw, and the one I shot back in the mid '70s, all started out as factory 40x BR models and had 20" barrels for short range benchrest.

 

[CanusLatransSnpr]

An old shooting friend of mine shot that cartridge but, the improved version for short range bench rest back in the early to late 80's. His was built on a 40x action also! He admitted it wasn't quite as accurate as the PPC's but, he gave em a run for their money! Hasecuster, down in Southern Indiana, was his smith and he chambered many benchrest rigs with the 6x47 imp. H322 was Joe's powder of choice and I believe a 65 gr. bullet of flat base design is what he shot! Not sure if it was Fed or Remington mass produced brass with the 6x47 headstamp for a time because Joe had some of that brass! Good luck on your build!

Mike

 

[6pt-sika]

An old shooting friend of mine shot that cartridge but, the improved version for short range bench rest back in the early to late 80's. His was built on a 40x action also! He admitted it wasn't quite as accurate as the PPC's but, he gave em a run for their money! Hasecuster, down in Southern Indiana, was his smith and he chambered many benchrest rigs with the 6x47 imp. H322 was Joe's powder of choice and I believe a 65 gr. bullet of flat base design is what he shot! Not sure if it was Fed or Remington mass produced brass with the 6x47 headstamp for a time because Joe had some of that brass! Good luck on your build!

Mike

Thanks for the info !

If I do one it'll be a nice older Remington 700BDL Varmint in 222 or 223 . And I'll keep the factory barrel in case I wanna make it back stock and send it down the road . I got a new Shilen #3 carbon steel 6.5mm barrel sitting in the corner waiting for the approrpiatte 700BDL to rebarrel and make a 6.5-06 . Might as well get a Varmint contour carbon steel SHilen in 6mm for later chambering to 6x47 .

Usually spurs me on when I have all the bits and pieces before I get the actual donor gun !

 

[alf]

An old shooting friend of mine shot that cartridge but, the improved version for short range bench rest back in the early to late 80's. His was built on a 40x action also! He admitted it wasn't quite as accurate as the PPC's but, he gave em a run for their money! Hasecuster, down in Southern Indiana, was his smith and he chambered many benchrest rigs with the 6x47 imp. H322 was Joe's powder of choice and I believe a 65 gr. bullet of flat base design is what he shot! Not sure if it was Fed or Remington mass produced brass with the 6x47 headstamp for a time because Joe had some of that brass! Good luck on your build!

Mike

I had Fred Hasecuster chamber up one of my old PPC barrels, with that 6x47x45 reamer for a 700 action I had, for a prairie dog gun. I killed a train load of PD's with that 21", barrel shooting 55 grain Nosler Ballistic Tips at 3300 and pulled down AA-2230-C powder. That barrel was pounded relentlessly through the years, and finally gave up the ghost at 7500 rounds.

 

[Hammer47]

Too bad you are only "mildly interested" as I am probably going to sell a beautiful Remington 40X with a factory stainless bbl in the near future. They did not make many in this chambering.

 

[CanusLatransSnpr]

Fred was known to do some exceptional work! 7,500 rounds through that barrel?? Wow, that thing just didn't want to die did it lol!? And 6pt-sika, if you have that 700 bdl action rebarreled, chances are the original barrel won't be able to go back on it anyways! That is if you have the action face trued and the locking lugs trued and so on and so forth. You would have headspacing issues is all!

Mike