What is your best 6xc loads?

[koger]

Just built my second 6xc, first for myself. Will be shooting 70-107 grain bullets, 8 tiwst Krieger on a timed and trued Savage short action. mostly light stuff paper punching, informal target out to 500yd. Everybody feel free to chime in with your best loads, starting fresh.

 

[wc872]

While I normally shoot 115 DTAC's, on the occasion that I have shot lighter bullets I stayed with H4350 just increasing the charge weight until I reached acceptable accuracy. I am very pleased with the results from H4350 so I have not tried other powders.
Semper Fi

 

[shortgrass]

Norma case, Berger 108g. BT Target, fueled by Varget, ignited by a Federal LR Match primer.

 

[bozo699]

I have had two 6xc rifles, the first I had a 1:7.5 Krieger on it and shot the berger and dtac 115's with H-4350, shot exceptionally well. The one I now own has a 1:14 Krieger and I shoot 68 bergers and 65 grain v-max bullets and it likes Varget, very competitive rifle.
Wayne.

 

[VooDooMagic]

8208 with 105 Scenars, lit off by Fed GM primer in Norma cases...

 

[koger]

Guys thanks for the answers, any specific starting on loads on 70gr. bullets. I know with an 8 tiwst will have to back off some, all help appreciated.

 

[Mudcat]

I tend to use 38.0grs of H4350 with anything from a 70 up to a 115. I shoot HP, and the 6XC is my main XTC round. I like simple, so I have settled in on 38.0grs and it works great with my 200 yard load and my 3/600 yard load. Even use 38.0 with a 105-108 class bullet for LR too. Just never seem to need to do any more fancier load development as they all shoot within my specs for those purposes. Maybe if I shot F class or benchrest I might do more testing, but these work, year after year, bbl after bbl.

John

 

[koger]

Thanks Mudcat, for this infor, along with the case l. info in other post.

 

[WyleWD]

I've got a couple of em too. Similar to Mudcat's post, both of mine are partial to a given weight of powder regardless of bullet weight. My best shooting has been done with somewhere between 40-43gr of R-17 with either a 70 NBT, 75gr Vmax, 80gr Precision Ballistics, or a 95gr Matchking. One rifle is a 10 twist Lilja, the other is a 9 twist Kreiger.

Although both rifles are completely different, both shoot the same loads very well.

Agree that 4350 is THE go to powder for this round...... but one can experiment from there. JMHO. WD

 

[WyleWD]

Forgot to ask...... are you shooting naked bullets or moly type coated bullets.

If they are coated, there's a fella just east of ya that could right a book about loads for the 6xc or 6 Woodchucker. WD

 

[BigBamBoo]

Have had two rifles chambered in 6XC. Both had 1:7.5 twist barrels. Used 115 DTAC's and 107 SMK's exclusively. One liked 38.5 gr. of H4350 and the other liked 39.0 grains of H4350.
I tried RL-17 but never got the consistent accuracy like i did with H4350.

Brass was Norma and primers were Wolf LR. All bullets were naked.

 

[spclark]

IMR 8208 XBR, 37.0 grains in Norma 6XC cases, Wolf LR or CCI BR2 primer, hBN home-coated Berger 105VLD's seated to 0.020" off lands: 3,125 fps, SD <5

30" Bartlein 1:7.8 5R, Quadlite action, Master Class stock chambered & fitted by Carl Bernosky in 2008. This is my favorite 1,000 yard rifle & load.

Two weeks ago at 1,200 yards up at Winnequah GC near Lodi WI I shot 142-4 for 15 record rounds with a scope & sling, hit the spotter 3 times in the X-ring. First sighter was short of target, next was a 7 @ 2, then an X at 7. Then they counted....

 

[Pauleye]

I have a 6XC with a 1:7.5 Pac Nor I use RL-17 with Russian primers and 115
Bergers. I get 1/2 MOA at 1000 yds with good velocity.

 

[hoverp]

I tend to use 38.0grs of H4350 with anything from a 70 up to a 115. I shoot HP, and the 6XC is my main XTC round. I like simple, so I have settled in on 38.0grs and it works great with my 200 yard load and my 3/600 yard load. Even use 38.0 with a 105-108 class bullet for LR too. Just never seem to need to do any more fancier load development as they all shoot within my specs for those purposes. Maybe if I shot F class or benchrest I might do more testing, but these work, year after year, bbl after bbl.

John

Mudcat, do you load to different COL for rapid vs slowfire?

Thanks

 

[Mudcat]

No, not with the bullets that I use, I dont need to. If i had differnet bullets, I might have to, but with the ones I use now, i dont need to.

John

 

[zipollini]

Mudcat - What kind of velocities and SDs are you getting from your 38.0gr H4350 load ?

Thanks in advance.

 

[hoverp]

No, not with the bullets that I use, I dont need to. If i had differnet bullets, I might have to, but with the ones I use now, i dont need to.

John

Im shooting the 115 DTAC closed point HbN is that what your shooting?

 

[Mudcat]

Zip, I really dont bother chronographing that load, but I THINK its going a little over 2900fps out of a 26 inch bbl. SD, no clue. All I know is how it performs on the target and thats all I worry about. My guess, however, is that its single digit.

MT, I do not use any 115 grain bullets. Too many really good 105-107-108 grain bullets out there that perform way too good to mess with the 115s, even in my 6xc prone guns where I do run 7.5 twist bbls (run 1/8 in the xtc bbls)

John

 

[confuzed]

I am in the process of building my third 6xc. The two I have both shoot in the low .3s with 38.1 grs H4350 and 107 smk,or 106 clinch river,currently 105 bthp amp hornady are excellent! one is a XR100 trued in a manners stock with 28in 1:7.5 schneider Tubb contour the other is a Eleseo RTS with a 28in Krieger med palma 1:7.5 I get 2975 fps out of the schneider and just under 2950 on the Krieger. used varget , RL17,8208 and always came back to H4350

 

[VooDooMagic]

4350 and 105 JLK's gave me a pretty good load as well...