Let me know if this column helps you to decide what deer rifle is best for you or gives you new ideas on a deer-hunting rifle.I have taken many deer with 6mm cartridges, mainly my 6mm Remington Ackley Improved. 1 Image (s) Remington Rifle Magazine Model 700 (6MM REM, 243 WIN, 7MM-08 REM, 308 WIN) If You Pay With Credit Card The Credit Card Company Will Charge You 4% For Using It Just To Let Everyone Know Thanks. 244 Remington chambered rifles was optimized for lighter weight (70-90 gr) Varmint bullets, and it would not adequately stabilize the 100 gr spire points designed for and preferred by most hunters for medium size game like deer and antelope. Is a 6mm a good deer rifle? Fast, efficient and powerful, the various 6mm cartridges have been very popular among deer hunters for more than 50 years.The 6mm Remington was designed in 1955 by Fred Huntington as the. ly/3n79I5wUR T-Shirts: Factory loads in 6mm call for an 80 grain bullet at 3,470 fps, and a 100 grain bullet at 3,100 fps. Both bullets came apart radically, without the partition holding up. Remington has led deer ammunition sales for six decades with this particular bullet design. is the 6mm ARC, which Hornady just introduced. 243 toward deer guys with 100gr bullets and the popularity took off. 257 Roberts, and the parent case is the 7x57 Mauser. Remington has a history of major marketing screw ups: 7mm Express and the 5mm Remington.
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Before getting started, I want to be clear that I don’t have any direct experience with. Rem dropped the 244 and came back with the 6mm rem cal.Ballistics look good just looking for opinions, favorite loads, thought A wonderful caliber for deer but hardly anyone in my circle of friends even mentioned it. Iron Whittler Originally Remington offered factory ammunition with 75 grain bullets for varmints and 90 grain for deer. A good friend of mine who passed away a few years ago loved this caliber for its accuracy and lack of recoil. It wasn’t a trophy audad but in hindsight it was the wrong gun for that animal. 6mm Remington debacle.6mm remington for deer 5 Grendel 5. The cartridge never changed, only the name, and for different reasons than the. 280 Remington, the 7mm Remington Express, and back to the. I mentioned earlier that Remington had changed cartridge names at least one other time that I am aware of. Remington chose the 7×57 Mauser cartridge as the parent case for its 6mm offering.Īnd now, as the late Paul Harvey used to say, “the rest of the story!” What one will do, so will the other and equally well. Practically speaking, however, if that is permitted these days, they are ballistic twins. It also provides a slightly longer cartridge neck, which most handloaders prefer, including this one.
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Remington chose the 7×57 Mauser cartridge as the parent case for its 6mm offering, which gives it a slightly greater powder capacity than the. 243, the 6mm Remington has never caught up with the popularity of Winchesters offering, but it has, as best I can tell, become a reasonably successful cartridge offering for Remington, as well it should.Īs mentioned earlier, it offers a slight ballistic advantage over its Winchester rival. 244 Remington, they changed its name at that time to the 6mm Remington. Since they realized that the damage had already been done to the. Remington finally saw the error of their ways and in 1963, they changed the twist from 1:12 to 1:9, which would stabilize all available 6mm bullet weights available on the market. 244 almost withered on the vine, even though technically it offered slight advantages over the.
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243 became a very popular cartridge and Remington's. As the old adage goes, the rest is history. Therefore they fitted their rifles with a 1:12 twist, perfect for the 80-90 grain bullet weights, but wouldn't always stabilize the 100 grain and heavier bullet weights that hunters wanted to use on deer and antelope. 244 cartridge as a varmint/predator cartridge and discounted any demand for it as a deer/antelope rifle. Winchester fitted their rifles with a 1:10 twist barrel, which would stabilize all bullet weights suitable for both purposes. Winchester developed the cartridge as a combination varmint round using lighter weight bullets, and a light deer/antelope rifle using 100 grain bullets. Many other manufacturers began chambering for the cartridge shortly thereafter.