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Anyone use a 243/6mm caliber for blackies?
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<blockquote data-quote="Engineering101" data-source="post: 1283166" data-attributes="member: 63138"><p>wilkup</p><p> </p><p>The rifle is a Savage short action with a heavy sporter weight Krieger 1:8 twist barrel at 25.25" bedded into a salt and pepper Boyd's Prairie Hunter. It is wearing a Vortex Viper HS and I'm running the 143 gr ELD-X at ~ 3,025 fps. I have run that bullet over 3,200 fps with good results but it was more accurate around 3K fps. And more importantly with this semi soft bullet I like 3K and less. However, if I decide to run some Barnes in it they will be screaming. I don't back down on velocity with Barnes. Another thing I've noticed having taken many dirty/cold bore shots over many months, this rifle is never more than 1.5" from dead nuts at 200 yards and 6 out of 10 were inside the 1 inch square I'm aiming at. I suspect on those that missed the 1" square it was me and not the rifle. Eyes are getting pretty old at this point. I've got it throated for a coal of 3.115" to be just off the lands. Running 69.5 grains of RL-50 and Fed 215 primers. Last but not least, I really like this chambering. It is fun to shoot. I full length resize with my 270 WSM die and then neck size with a Redding bushing die. Piece of cake to form brass. It is almost not a wildcat. But as I said, shrinking this to 6mm would be a bridge too far.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Engineering101, post: 1283166, member: 63138"] wilkup The rifle is a Savage short action with a heavy sporter weight Krieger 1:8 twist barrel at 25.25" bedded into a salt and pepper Boyd's Prairie Hunter. It is wearing a Vortex Viper HS and I'm running the 143 gr ELD-X at ~ 3,025 fps. I have run that bullet over 3,200 fps with good results but it was more accurate around 3K fps. And more importantly with this semi soft bullet I like 3K and less. However, if I decide to run some Barnes in it they will be screaming. I don't back down on velocity with Barnes. Another thing I've noticed having taken many dirty/cold bore shots over many months, this rifle is never more than 1.5" from dead nuts at 200 yards and 6 out of 10 were inside the 1 inch square I'm aiming at. I suspect on those that missed the 1" square it was me and not the rifle. Eyes are getting pretty old at this point. I've got it throated for a coal of 3.115" to be just off the lands. Running 69.5 grains of RL-50 and Fed 215 primers. Last but not least, I really like this chambering. It is fun to shoot. I full length resize with my 270 WSM die and then neck size with a Redding bushing die. Piece of cake to form brass. It is almost not a wildcat. But as I said, shrinking this to 6mm would be a bridge too far. [/QUOTE]
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