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I have a 09 mauser action i am toying around the idea of building another rifle. A friend suggested a 6mm-06 it rivels a 240 roy. Any thoughts guys. Wade

I like the idea - I had a 240 Roy that rocked. ONly issue is expensive belted brass, so the 6-06 makes a lot of sense to me. I'll have another one someday.

tom

Hopefully Dober will jump in here, he runs one I think. Seems to dote on it some.

mulepacker-what are you wanting to know?

I've run one more than a fair bit. Am on my 2nd tube, both of them have been 10 twist Schneiders and both cut to 25".

The 10's will shoot the 55's thru the 100's quite well. If I was really wanting to go past 500 and to 1K on a consistent basis I'd do a 8 or 9 twist so as to run the 105's and 107's. But I don't do that in a serious manner with this rig so the 95 NBT's work quite well for me for the longer ranges.

With the 55's I run IMR 4350, and this will actually be a fairly fur friendly load for yotes. This will really give you some serious speed!

My first barrel I used IMR 4350 and the 70 NBT's quite a bit. Took a lot of yotes/chucks/deer/lopes with it, serious killing load here!

In the first barrel I also used the 95 NBT to take a lot of game as well. It preferred R22 or R25.

My second barrel is really fond of H4831 and I mainly run the 75 Vmax and the 85 TSX. I also used the same powder with the 95 TSX's when I had them.

I use Rem nickle 25/06 cases and neck em down. My fire form loads shoot really well and I can use them to take varmints. reason why I use the nickle cases is that I have a couple of hunt buds who run 25/06's and they always use brass cases. Just a bit of extra caution I guess.

I do have a couple of buds that have gone the 12 twist route. There guns will not run the 85's and above and they really don't shoot the sub 85's any better than my 10's do so I'd not go slower than a 10.

I really like Schneider tubes and use Gary's 4 weight. But, there are other barrel makers that I'd use in a heartbeat.

Let me know what else you'd like to know and I'll try to help.

Dober

Dober what are you getting for velocity with the 55s. Have you ran any of the Berger 65s? What did your barrel weigh naked about 4.5 or so? Oh what is the case life like? How often do you have to trim? Anyway interested in a new wildcat and I can't make up my mind as of yet. Just wondering. HAPPY HUNTING

Dober thanks, I like the idea of a 1-10" twist, 25-26 length. I have a 280AI O9 mauser with a Pac-Nor barrel that shoots sub moa. I will talk to Chris at PC about a 6mm. what are your thoughts on R17 I use H4831 in a 338 that works well, it seems to be fairly stable in temp. changes. I have been using tsx's in all my hunting loads the past few years. I find them very acurate and perform well on elk and deer. Dober once again thanks, 6mm-06, 85tsx sounds like a good yote killer. Wade

Any time Wade, and if you pm me your phone # I'll give you a call and we can talk about this a bit more.

H4831 works so well in this tube that I don't know if I'd try R17 or not. I have the rifle set up with dotz so another 50-100 fps doesn't mean a thing to me.

But, perhaps this summer I'll get bored and try it...grin

Dober

Ruger243223-I've not ran any of the 65 Bergers. Although a bud of mine was running them in his 6/284, from what I can recall we hit two yotes with it. One yote the exit was fairly impressive and the other was like, where on earth did we hit it (and it was a good hit, had to do some skinning to sort it out. As a fur bullet I'd say it's worth another look. I kind of thought it might be fairly hard but it wasn't much of a test...

On the 55's in the 24/06, over 4K is pretty easy and we had one 26" 12 twist running them at 4400....yikers

They (55's) do work really well when trying to be fur friendly and they roasted some whitey's and lopes with ease as well. My wife used it to tip over a really nice lope @ 300 a couple of falls back. She just grabbed a bullet and nuked the lope, had no idea of what kind of bullet she stuck up the pipe...grin

I've no idea whatsoever as to what these barrels would weigh by themselves. IMO there contour is very much like a magnum 700.

As for case life, it's been very good for me. I typically run the cases 9 times, trim every third shot and toss b4 I get to 10.

It is really a user friendly round and yet is incredibly capable!

Dober