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Wayne F.

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I inherited several firearms when my father passed away awhile back. I was familar with most of them, and have used them in the past. However, there was one in the bunch that he must have purchased fairly close to his death, as I had never seen it before.

It is a Ruger M77 in 6MM Rem with scope (don't recall the brand off hand). I don't hunt or reload and don't forsee doing so in the near future. Most of my shooting is punching paper at the range with handguns. Lately my 11 year old son and I have been shooting a .22 at the rifle range (benchrest) as well.

I had thought about just using the 6MM to shoot alongside my son and his .22 when we are at the range. But, I am finding that ammo in this caliber is difficult to find. After doing a search of this forum I take it that the 6MM is an allright benchrest cartridge but is not very popular for one reason or another.

So........ my question for you guy's is, can this rifle be rebarreled to a more popular cartridge that factory ammo is readily available in? Or would I be better off trading it in on another bolt action in a different caliber.

Thanks in advance.
Wayne
 
I'd say keep it. It's a great cartridge. You can order ammo on-line, you can get it at gunshows, and you can handload.

Had Remington handled the introduction a little more differently, I think it would have had an EXCELLENT chance of becoming the "standard" 6mm instead of the .243 Winchester.

It tosses bullets slightly faster than the .243, is every bit as accurate, if not more so, and like the .243 is an all around caliber for just about all North American game.
 
I had a 6mm give me a scope gash this weekend. I had never shot this rifle, and was expecting the recoil to be like a .223 for some reason... :rolleyes: Next time I'll wear my taller shooting glasses.
 
My local Wal-Mart always has 6 MM Rem. If these quick-sale slugs carry it, I'd think anyone would...
Great round. Low recoil, big wallop.
Tom;)
 
Wayne,

Welcome to TFL! Our very own George Stringer is actually building a "Cub Scout" for me in 6mm...it ain't dead yet. :)
 
Wayne, for all that I'm a .243 shooter, I'd say there are no flies on the 6mm Rem. Hang on to it, use it and make it your kid's first deer rifle.

Find a used press, dies and powder scale at a gun show and take up reloading. That's about as inexpensive a way as I know to get into that part of our sport. With roughly 40 grains weight to the load, that's 175 shots for $18 worth of powder. Bullets run about a dime each, and primers about two cents--near as makes no never-mind. That works out about $4 to $4.50/box of 20. I've used a ton of scrounged brass...Teach your kid: Slave labor is way cool!

:), Art
 
I see 6mm Rem. ammo all the time at gun shops all over the Dallas area. Great cartridge! Do not dump that gun. You will regret it, if you do.
Jim Hall
 
6MM Rem ammo is readily available at shops in the Chattanooga, TN area. It's a great round---my brother killed his first deer with it. If you absolutely must sell it though, I'll buy!:D
 
Thanks for the responses. I have been unable to find any 6MM Rem at the marts around here. Lucky if I can even get them to aknowledge/realize that they do in fact carry ammunition for sale........................

Checked a couple of gun stores with no luck. Finally found some at the third store. 6MM Rem, 80grain, Federal classic with soft point hunting bullet of some sort. Box of 20 for $16.00.

So........... I guess I'll keep the rifle for awhile and go shootin.

Thanks again for the help.

Wayne
 
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