Anyone goofed around with 6X45 ?

[Nefarioud]

I've been reading a bit about this and wondered if anyone has tried it? It sounds like a great round for my daughter that's not quite ready for .243. I have a 6mm barrel blank that I was going to have made into a .243 for her. I figured I could have it cut for 6X45 then when she was ready for the 243 we could chamber it in that.

[stevec]

Great round. easy to load for and very accurate. little recoil and little noise. Mine is a 14 twist so I can only shoot up to a 68 gr bullet. H322 is my powder of choice.

Steve

[Nefarioud]

Thanks Steve. My barrel is an 8 twist so I was kinda hoping to goof around with some 105's when the girl wasn't using it

[stevec]

The Hornady book has info for up to 100gr.

Steve

[Eric in NC]

Go on and make it an 8 twist and make it a 6mm TCU (or even better a 7mm TCU).

[MikeCTX]

Have a set of dies waiting to build a 6x45 rifle...Black Hills introduced 85gr and 100gr ammo at the Shot Show

Everything I read about it, it is a great little round.

[sinman]

I have made about 6 of them for customers from 1/8-1/14 twist and they all seem to love them

[Nefarioud]

I have made about 6 of them for customers from 1/8-1/14 twist and they all seem to love them


Devin, do you still have the reamer? I called Dave Kiff today and he said it'd be a few weeks before he could get me one and I was thinking I could just send you the barrel blank and have you handle it

[sinman]

Yes I do, it is sitting in my 6mm reamer drawer ready to make chips.

[Nefarioud]

PM in bound

[5spd]

I have an AR15 with a Frontier Arms upper, BHW 20" 5 groove bbl., 1/10" twist and it puts sierra 85 sgk into .600"-.900", 65vmax to .400"-700", 70g NBT to .500"-.900".
It flattens coyotes out to 350yds so far all 1 shot with the 65vmax.
Super easy to load for. I will be having a Shilen bbl turned for my FP10 action as I want it in a bolt gun now.
In my AR it the felt recoil is very soft compared to my .223 AR.

[Junfan]

Sounds like a good plan to me. On Predator Masters under the reloading forum there is an extensive 6x45 load thread. Sierra also has load information in their book.

[Nefarioud]

AC thank you for the data!

Looks like this might be a great sleeper round for our impromptu shoot-offs