6 mm Remington, sad its gone for good.

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Jim Carmichael's take on the .244/6mm is interesting, but I've seen the opposite of what he's apparently see -- I have seen several .244s shoot very poorly with heavy bullets.

I also don't think that his reasoning for why the .243 outsold the .244 (prettiness of the rifles) holds much sway -- the 722 sold very well for its entire life.
 
I have had my 6mm 700 since the mid-70's. Bedded the receiver, polished everything inside that moved; with a lot of effort, and with a lot, really a lot of effort, removed the shiny finish and replaced it with oil - I hate shiny finishes on hunting guns.

I used it mostly for varmits and a few whitetails. Its performance on groundhogs and crows out to 350 yards was excellent (never had opportunities for longer shots). On several occasions on the range it shot 1 hole groups at 100 yds.

I stopped hunting and most shooting 25 years ago and the rifle had not been fired since then. All my load data was lost in a move and I started over last year. Amazing that the scope zero had not changed. At age 72 I can't seem to shoot 1 hole groups any more - must be the rifle, maybe some practice......

I learned about the 700 trigger issue very late and replaced it with a Timney - wish I had done that years ago.

It does a hell of a job on coyotes using 58 grain Vmax pushed to near max. velocity.

The 6mm ain't dead - by a long shot !
 
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Calculates a stability figure of 1.200 if a Nosler 100 gr. Partition is fired from a 12 twist barrel at 2950 fps. That is inadequate.

"Stability The Miller stability value. It should be between 1.3 and 2.0 to ensure stabilty (the military uses 1.5)."
 
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