remington 6br brass

[jotrot]

just curious if Remington is still making their 6br brass.
I was going to build my first 6br and I was checking prices on brass.
I cant fight the urge anymore gotta have one.

thanks for your time

joel

 

[wapiti25]

Buy Lapua not Rem. Make sure of length of neck, the old Rem had a shorter neck. Use a reamer for 6mm BR Norma which has the long neck.

 

[John from MN]

I haven't seen it advertised in a few years. It was a lower cost alternative that worked reasonably well when I built my first 6br a decade or so back.

The Lapua is certainly better stuff, but the Remington brass works well for informal shooting. Shot a 3inch 10 shot group at 550 yds yesterday morning while doing load work with 105's in neck turned Remington brass. Some of that could have been me, as I was shooting off an Atlas bipod with a rear bag prone.

Unless you already have a supply of the Remington brass, you'll be better off chambering for the Lapua dimensions.

 

[jotrot]

thank you and most heipful, I will be going with the lapua

 

[barefooter56]

jotrot,
If your rifle is a Remington factory rifle you will have to use their brass or have the chamber "touched up" with a 6BR LAPUA/Norma reamer. The big issue is the LAPUA and Norma being a little bigger in diameter down near the extractor groove of the cartridge case. This was done so they could put their name on the case head not Remington. The necks have become just about the same length as time goes by but still may need to be trimmed if you have a Remington chamber. Also the 6BR Remington brass is sold with the primer installed and falls under the HAZ-MAT fee like powder and primers. If your rifle was reamed with a LAPUA/NORMA reamer you can use all 3 with no issues. Always make sure your gunsmith will use this reamer when you have a rifle made. There still are a few of the old Remington versions left out there. Hope this helps!
Take care,
Phil Hoham
Berger Bullet Tech

 

[butchlambert]

I believe I still have 2 cases(1000 rounds) of Remington factory brass, new in the box. You get to drill your flash holes to your choice of size.

 

[barefooter56]

butchlambert,
No flash holes drilled in the brass? That's a new one. How old ?
Take care,
Phil Hoham
Berger Bullet Tech

 

[butchlambert]

Phil,
The werer offered several years ago when the shooters were experimenting with flash hole size. The part number is U6MMBR. Red Cornelison shot the 22 and 6mm Red Russian as he called them. It is a shortened Remington 6BR case that he rebated the rims to 223 bolt size and bored a step in the neck to the depth he wanted for bullet length. Red was very precise with all of his experiments. Red made the 17HMR long before it became a commercial cartridge. I still have samples of the ones that he made. Red was well enough known in the shooting industry that he was able to get product that the rest of us couldn't, like cases of 22Mag. unloaded brass, brass without headstamp, 223 brass with longer necks, and of course brass that had no flash hole. After Red passed away Bonnie sold his rifles, pistols, machine shop tools, wood stock blanks, and his reloading supplies. I made one trip to Seminole, Oklahoma for a big truckload of walnut stock blanks and came back to buy his bullets, brass, powder, and other misc. items.
Red was the first member of the Benchrest Hall of Fame and just a great and honest person!

 

[CatShooter]

If your rifle is a Remington factory rifle you will have to use their brass or have the chamber "touched up" with a 6BR LAPUA/Norma reamer. The big issue is the LAPUA and Norma being a little bigger in diameter down near the extractor groove of the cartridge case. This was done so they could put their name on the case head not Remington.

My 6mBR is a Remington 40-XBR from Remington, and there is no problem using Lapua cases... the cases fit well, and never "click".

Also the 6BR Remington brass is sold with the primer installed and falls under the HAZ-MAT fee like powder and primers.

Take care,
Phil Hoham
Berger Bullet Tech

Primed cases are NOT haz-mat and can be shipped via normal ground UPS or Fed-ex with an ORM-D label (or the new version label)

 

[jotrot]

thanks everybody for your time and knowledge, most helpful.

thanks joel

 

[barefooter56]

Butchlambert,
Hey! Thanks for the information ! He sounds like he was a great guy. Would love to have met him.
CatShooter,
Your cartridge case Haz-Mat classification is correct. There was a debate about it for awhile. Sanity must have prevailed. How old is your 6BR and it will chamber reloaded Lapua brass too? In a former life at my previous employer we got calls all the time from guys who had issues with Lapua brass in their Remington 6BR rifles. Especially reloaded rounds. Maybe someone at Remington decided they should join the party. Anyway thanks for the feedback !
Take care,
Phil Hoham
Berger Bullet Tech