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Best 6mm bullet for 500 to 1000 yards

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What are peoples opinions on the most accurate and easiest to tune 6mm bullet to shoot for those distances between 500 and 1000 yards. The rifle will be a 6mm Creedmoor or 6 xc with a barrel length of around 26 ". Which are the brands, types and weight best suited.
Thanks in advance.
 
The Berger 105gr hybrids are quite popular and have a high BC for their weight. Availability is sometimes spotty. They are very accurate out of my RPR.
 
I've had very good luck with the Berger 105 Hybrids out of my 6x47L! But, I must be honest, it's the only bullet i've shot through that rifle :-) ........
 
I've shot my best 600 yard group with 105 Berger hybrids. However it took a lot of tuning to get it dialed in. The 108 Berger shoots almost as good groups but I think you could just dump random amounts of varget and seat them at random depths and you'd get a quarter moa group. They are the easy button.
 
Everyone with the 105 Hybrids, what is the barrel twist you are using? Since Berger lists a 7" twist needed, I have yet to pull the trigger on them.
 
Alright, WTF! Went back to Berger's website and either I have been smoking the wacky weed for the past two months when looking at it or they changed the Hybrid from 7" to 8".

 
1shot said:
The Hybrids shoot just fine from an 8 twist at 1,190 ASL.

Lloyd
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At 1.266-inches OAL, they have an Sg value of 1.38 at sea level and 59-deg F. Take that to 3,000 fps, 1200 ft ASL (~ 1-inch of mercury less pressure) and say 70F, it rises to exactly 1.50 in 1:8, so you achieve the now recommended magic number.

Even in lower altitudes and a chillier ambience at nearly 1.4 Sg it's going to shoot well - according to Berger's twist rate calculator you lose 3% average BC value though reducing it to 0.268 ..... which just happens to be what the 108 is reckoned to be under these conditions in a 1:8 barrel give or take the odd 0.001.

So, for many people using 1:8s, the choice between this pair is six of one, half dozen of the other ballistically (not that their full BC values of 0.267 v 0.275 will be noticeable for 99.99% of shooters' results) and the other issues - cost, availability, ease of tuning, results - are best to make a choice. I found the 108 a super performer a long time ago - and crucially very easy to 'tune' - so it's been my favourite 6mm ever since. Being a poor retired old git, I can't afford these fancy Hybrids anyway. :(

........... and I've had great results from 107 SMKs (old ones in cardboard boxes, BTO batching essential) and 105 Berger VLDs seated 'in'. We're lucky to have so many really good sixes in this weight range. :) The only one I have not had great results from in 1:8 barrels was the early 115gn Tubb/Sierra DTAC and I'm pretty sure that was a twist rate issue.
 
If you want the "easy button" solution, the 108berger. If you want to fiddle just a bit, then the 105 hybrid. The 108 just shoots great in pretty much everything and with zero load development, thus its my go to 6mm bullet.
 
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