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Two loads I used in my Remington 700 BDL 6mm Rem
Case W-W
Fed 210M
85gr Sierra HPBT
45grs IMR4350
95gr Nos Part
48grs H4831
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One in ten twist will likely not stabilize bullets much over 85 grains. I rebarreled to a 1-7 twist and can shoot 105s if I have to.
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One in ten twist will likely not stabilize bullets much over 85 grains. I rebarreled to a 1-7 twist and can shoot 105s if I have to. Really ? I never had any problems shooting and hunting 100s in 243 and 6mm. Jerry
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First thing to do is neck it up to .257... 
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48 grains of RL22 behind a Sierra 100 grain gameking has flattened everything from pigs to deer without any issues. Great cartridge that gets little attention these days.
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I have a very sweet 6mm Remington that I built on a VZ-24 action.....it just happened to shoot 55 grain BTs into extremely fine groups and at 4,000 FPS and I kept it as a coyote dispenser.
As it turned out a friend bought his 10 year old son along with him and wanted to hunt deer and I lent him my 6 mm as I also had a bunch of Hornady interlocks in 100 grain BTSP.....however the youngster mixed up the ammo and shot four mule deer and whitetails with the 55 grainers.....four shots and four dead deer and at ranges to 350 yards.....all were instantaneous bang/flops.....When I discovered what was happening, I couldn't believe what I was seeing.....those varmint bullets were never meant for deer hunting, yet they did a magnificent job.
For next year I'm going to load 80 grain TTSXs to see how they work......but after seeing the 55 grainers work, I'm now thinking that absolutely anything at that velocity is a deer killing marvel.....
be your own judge.
BTW: the powder used was H-414 Can I ask what state you were hunting in? 4 deer tags in a season is awesome. Pretty much one deer a season here in Idaho. Might be worth an out of state license.
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R26 and 103 ELD-Xs are looking promising in my 6AI. I have not clocked them yet but guessing 3350 fps or there about. If I pushed I think I could hit 3,400 fps but I don't want to have any hot weather issues as the plan is to use these on called in Axis deer in June when it starts to get pretty warm around here.
95 gr. BT worked well with R22 but will switch to R16, R23 or R26 whichever shoots the best.
BTW we get 5 whitetail and 1 mule deer tag here so I am fortunate. On some of the MLD managed ranches it is unlimited or one deer per 1 to 100 acres. One place nearby has a quota of 103 deer a season just to keep their management status, unfortunately (for me) they only let kids do the culling.
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