If my partners hip surgery rehabilitation pans out I am going sheep hunting for the first time this summer, self guided in the Mackenzie Mountains. I am paring down my weights for equipment and keep eyeing my Rem 600 in 6mm Remington. 100 Nosler Partition at 2900ft/sec is about tops out of the short barrel. I have a Burris Mini 4X on it and it shoots MOA easily at an all in weight of about 6.2 pounds. I bought it for my wife as a caribou rifle and it works well for them. My question is range. I could hit a sheep at 300+ yards with this rig but would the power be there? I have always limited the range with caribou and haven't gone past 250 yards or so. For my own use I have grown use to the 358 Norma and the 6mm seems absurdly small but Sheep don't seem to hard to kill?
Of course after I drop 50 pounds of body weight a 1-2 pound rifle weight difference might not mean much but once you start going ultra-light every pound seems like a lot.
