87 Vmax for Pdogs Opinions Wanted (and go!!!)

[moorepower]

I measured 3.065 to the lands in this rifle with a Sinclair tool, and it was the best group. The rifle does better with 105 Precision Ballistics VLDs.

How do they do on Prairie Dogs?

 

[6and7mm]

The best aerial show I have seen came from the performance of a 243 Ackley pushing ye olde Hornady 105 A-Max boolits. Boy, oh boy, was that a show. I quit shooting and just spotted and ranged for those prairie poodles just to watch Ted greet them from a distance. I only wish I caught all of it on video.

 

[Carl S]

My 6BR shoots 85grn Sierra varminters exceptionally well 1-8T krieger barrel.ive shot crows and rabbits 500+yards,devastating on foxes and great on deer to.i recently built one for a friend
1-8T Bartlein barrel and he shoots 65grn v.max..super accurate and really tears foxes up.

 

[Midnightmedic2]

Just recently re-chamber a mcgowen 26” 1:8” twist from 6br to my 6bra with .150” free bore. Shoots 87 vmax lights out with 36gr of cfe223 at 3350fps. Repeated two .25moa five shot groups at 200 yards and have been putting the rest on fur with no problems. Great use for old BR/fclass brass and barrels!

 

[urbanrifleman]

Just recently re-chamber a mcgowen 26” 1:8” twist from 6br to my 6bra with .150” free bore. Shoots 87 vmax lights out with 36gr of cfe223 at 3350fps. Repeated two .25moa five shot groups at 200 yards and have been putting the rest on fur with no problems. Great use for old BR/fclass brass and barrels!

Has anyone tried shooting the 87 vmax well into the lands? Like hard jam?

 

[urbanrifleman]

Freebore for 6br.

 

[Dave in WI]

Has anyone tried shooting the 87 vmax well into the lands? Like hard jam?

I want to, but always afraid of having to remove live round in field and sticking proj and dumping powder.

 

[urbanrifleman]

I want to, but always afraid of having to remove live round in field and sticking proj and dumping powder.

I would be sure to use enough neck tension to avoid that.

 

[Tommie]

I want to, but always afraid of having to remove live round in field and sticking proj and dumping powder.

Agreed. Totally. Had it happen twice. Puts a major damper on a poodle shoot.

 

[AckleymanII]

A 6 XC with .030 Free Bore is well worth the price of the reamer. I hope to be giving you some data soon, 55-75g bullets in Peterson brass.

 

[AckleymanII]

6 BRA with zero freeboe with 55g Noslers would do 3900+ at the accuracy node, a tad better than the 6 BR with zero freebore, maybe 4000 fps.

 

[long40shot]

The big issue with running the 87s for p-dogs is the uncontrollable laughter after a solid hit!

 

[AckleymanII]

I made some 60/65g off of J4 jackets, and I did not point them up all the way, playing with different size of HP. The p. dogs just detonated, like a paint ball on a flat rock!

 

[urbanrifleman]

A 6 XC with .030 Free Bore is well worth the price of the reamer. I hope to be giving you some data soon, 55-75g bullets in Peterson brass.

I have a 50 fb reamer. Pretty much the same!

 

[Ackman]

I made some 60/65g off of J4 jackets, and I did not point them up all the way, playing with different size of HP. The p. dogs just detonated, like a paint ball on a flat rock!

And they shoot reeeeely good. The best launch I ever saw though, was on a video......68 or 69gr Berger shot from a 243AI. Dog was launched so high it went clean out of the camera's field of view, had to have been 10 or 12' in the air.

 

[pupsdad]

I really like the 87gr vmax in my 1-10 6mm BR

 

[X Count]

In a 6br a .095 FB is about perfect for the 87gr but lighter bullets than 75gr will struggle to make the lands. 65gr v max will just because of it's odd profile.