Home Forums Reloading Varmint Rifles 6 x 45 Deer Hunting Loads

Thanks for this thread. Some good information. I had Accuracy Systems barrel a mini 14 to 6x45 a few years ago. If things ever settle down here between the remodel, garden and wife’s health, maybe I can get to the range to try a few loads.

I have a bunch of the Speer 100 gr. BTSP's, well known to be pretty soft. I just obtained a 6 AR with a 20 inch barrel and mostly look at it as a coyote calling rifle and an anytime a hog shows up gun. Might but probably won't hunt deer with it. Any soft bullet would work. My real interest is getting 55 gr. Ballistic Tips or 58gr. Vmax's to run fast and accurate.

You've been doing a lot of shooting with this 6x45. Weather must be pretty good? It's been raining off and on over here with some pretty mild temps. Thankfully during my shoot last Saturday, it was damn nice:


Tried shooting yesterday, but it wanted to rain the whole damn time!!! If you have not tried the 85gr Sierra gameking, I'd be trying that one. I don't know how the 90gr gamechanger would do, but that could also be a great candidate for a deer bullet. My 6x45 also really liked the 100gr Hornady btsp. Those were on sale last year for a damn good deal, so I bought about 600. I sold almost all of my 6mm stuff to beretzs though. I have been seeing a lot of 85gr partitions for sale around here. Don't know if $30/box is good, but if I had a 243 I'd be snagging those.

Cool picture. Did you win the suppressor?

As long as you use a bullet suited for your specific impact velocity range, the little 6mm-.223 will work like a charm. Thanks to the inspiration of Bob Milek, I had a XP-100 barreled up with a 14" Shilen back in the 80s and later used 14 and 15" Contenders along with a custom Rem 788 with a 20" barrel.

With that XP, I took quite a few animals, mostly exotics in the Texas Hill Country. I used H335 under the long-discontinued Sierra 80 grain SSP and always was rewarded with fantastic terminal performance. MV was 2705 fps.

The large catalina billy below was taken at 230 yards, which was my longest shot on a big game animal with that rig. That XP was one of the most accurate firearms I have ever owned and would consistently produce eye-popping groups.

Tommy,

Good to see you around... its been a long long time my friend...

Glad to see you're still with us...

thanks for the post and the pictures.

cheers
seafire

The 90 gr GameChanger is a very hard bullet and is meant for more velocity than the 6 x 45 can must with it...

it was designed with heavy game in mind, using max velocity out of a 6mm Rem or a 240 Weatherby or 6/06, or some other eqivalent.

I learned that after the fact, given bad information from one of Sierra's techs before using.

ONe of the ballistic tips or the Speer 105 SP or the 100 grainers is more in line with what I was thinking.

Shot the 223 today and beside the 6 x 45, it was an eye opener side by side.

The 6mm version is a big step up over the 223, even with heavier bullets.. especially in bolt actions.

Sunday, July 9th, 2023

for closer hunting, say 150 to 200 yds max...Low Recoil... or for youth and ladies.

14 grains of Alliant Steel, Rem 7 1/2 primer

1. 75 grain Speer HP.
a). 2667 fps b.) 2622 fps c.) 2632 fps

2. 80 grain Speer SP.
a.) 2563 fps b.) 2588 fps c.) 2576 fps

3. 85 grain Speer SP.
a.) 2464 fps b.) 2469 fps c.) 2455 fps

something within there that would drop a blacktail or smaller White Tail or antelope.
These bullets are softer, so they should open up pretty well at these velocities also, especially at 100 yds or so.. which is the distance a big percentage of deer are taken.

July 16th, Sunday


Loads for Hunting out to 300 yds or More... with the 6 x 45, Bolt Action Savage, 20 inch heavy varmint barrel

1. 90 gr Speer SP, Rem 7 1/2 primer., 24 grs 3031
a.) 2723 fps
b.) 2746 fps
c.) 2760 fps

2. 90 gr Speer SP, Rem 7 1/2 primer, 25.5 IMR 4895
a.) 2817 fps
b.) 2826 fps
c.) 2825 fps

3. 100 SP Hornady, Rem 7 1/2 primer, 25 gr AR Comp
a.) 2782 fps
b.) 2797 fps
c.) 2809 fps
d.) 2790 fps
e.) 2775 fps

4. 105 gr BT/HP Hornady, Rem 7 1/2 primer, 25 gr AR Comp.
a.) 2722 fps
b.) 2710 fps
c.) 2741 fps
d.) 2707 fps
e.) 2737 fps.

Ringing Steel 12 inch plates at 300 and 400 yds was no problem and if the way the steel plates were swinging, these rounds hit with authority at those distances. Big difference compared with 75 grain 22 caliber bullets, at the same distances out
of a 223.

AND I still have that XP in my possession. Good to see you around Bobby.
Jeff

Just wondering what COAL you run with the 105 HPBT.

Will measure that and get back to you on that...

rifle round is longer than what you'd chamber in an AR.....

Very cool pic!

Just wondering how much I would have to lengthen an AR action to fit it.

Rickt300,

The COAL of the cartridge with a 105 gr BTHP is 63.40mm

The barrel was chambered by Douglas to be able to take that cartridge length, on a bolt action Savage and also on a bolt action Ruger or Model 70 SA.

If one were to use it on an AR, then it would require a lengthened mag and action...

don't know if someone makes an AR 10 mag and action that would handle that requirement...

I'm not really an AR kind of guy, although Lord knows did I send a lot of rounds down range when I served Uncle Sam.

I don't hate ARs, even in the military I was not a spray and pray kind of guy...

in fact in basic, when we had to do night fire, we were given 66 rounds and were to do 3 round bursts, with 22 hits being a perfect score... which is usually impossible on night fire... instead I did single or two shot bursts while using my peripheral vision.. my score was in the low 30s.... I got chewed out for not following instructions... I just don't go out and sling lead..

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Well to gain the required improvement in a cost effective way lengthening an AR action .25 would be pretty easy. If you start from scratch anyway. I'm not talking about something we would really need but the military wants more energy down range. In my personal opinion the AR10 was never a satisfactory system. It weighed as much as the M14 and had the same issues with the weight of ammunition and only 140 rounds as the standard battle carry. Slinging lead is one thing but having a third more rounds available is another.

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So . . . What's the difference between 6X45
and 6mm TCU ?