Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Custom Rifles & Wildcats Simplest route to a 6x45?

I did mine on a interarms mini Mark X action. It shoots Hornady 58 and 65 grain bullets to 3/4 inch groups..

If you are still looking for an inexpensive way to a 6x45mm, I can suggest this. It is a Savage Axis with a Shilen Select Match SS prefit. I call it Frankenrifle Too (pictured below). The barrel is 22 inches, original factory contour, and has a 1 in 10 twist. You can build it yourself or have a gunsmith spin off the OEM barrel and put a new one on.

My first 6x45mm, Frankenrifle Won, is a HB beastie. It started life as a Stevens 200 (Savage Model 10 - pre Accutrigger) and was cobbled together with inexpensive bits and pieces I found on special. The barrel was the only expensive part at $300 USD.

The rifle below has a Boyd AT-One stock, aftermarket bolt handle and an RB trigger. You certainly don't need all of this. If you keep the original stock and use an Axis with an Accutrigger, you can pick up a prefit aftermarket barrel new for about $350 or less.

The target was the first five shots down the barrel after becoming a 6x45mm. The cartridges were made from military, once fired IVI brass, homemade 76 gr OTM bullets and 8208 powder.

I apologize for not seeing this but all those places list the prices on the website or used to anyway. Normally a standard rebarrel is going to run $6-$650. You might can beat that by $100 if you look around but that’s going to be close.

You may have already finished the gun or decided against it by now. Take care.

I was wanting a light handy dual purpose rifle for both vermin and bigger animals. I built a 6mm TCU on a CZ 527 action fitted with a 1:9" 24" stainless barrel from a local Aussie maker. I am shooing 55gn NBT's at 3600fps and 70gn bullets at 3300fps, all from a 7lb rifle burning less than 30gns of powder. The rifle is noticably quieter than others, it is a genuine 300yd varmint gun with 55's and can match the original 250-3000 Savage ballistics with 80's, and 223 cases are everywhere. Its the best do it all little cartridge going.

That sounds very cool.