Short 6BR

[Jowens]

Anyone ever ran a 16.5 to 20" 6BR?

What Bullets, powder, velocity?

I was thinking it would be a fun rifle to shoot suppressed and something the kids could shoot as well.

 

[brianf]

not sure about the short part but i have a 24" on my ax and the little ones love it.
absolute laser and zero recoil in a rifle that heavy.

 

[spife7980]

A guy I used to work with had one for his daughter to hunt with, light pencil barrel at 18” I think, cut off stock with like 9” pull length that had little bear prints painted on it. It was actually really cool and super light and handy but still not much recoil. Anyways, it had an amax load and she killed lots of deer with it for many years growing up. For a kid it’s pretty damn perfect.

 

[ballistic64]

22" is as short as I have gone with a 6BR. 2750 fps with RL15 and 105 hunt vlds.

 

[Jowens]

Bump back up

 

[6brshooter]

I had an 18" 6br, 7.5 or 7.7 twist. I ran 105hybrids and 107smk in it with h4895. I got 2740fps with h4895, varget and 8208 were slower. I believe 4895 was able to get more complete powder burned in short barrel.

 

[6brshooter]

Norma 202 was pretty good, basically relabeled rl12.

 

[King_beardsly]

Would you consider a 24” a short BR

 

[6brshooter]

No

 

[King_beardsly]

Okay, because I’m looking at doing a 6bra as a PRS build and I keep hearing 24” is short you need at least 26”

 

[6brshooter]

Well 26 isnt going to hurt anything. I was getting 2920fps with 105hybrids in a 26" criterion 6br

 

[King_beardsly]

Okay, with the tiny bit more capacity of the bra I should be able to get close to that and if I can get 2950 I’ll be happy

 

[BallisticPrimate]

Bit of data from my load dev this weekend:
18inch 6BR, 87vmax, 108gr ELDM's
31.3gr h4895 = 2920fps with the Vmax's
30gr Varget = 2645fps with the ELDM's

The accuracy node with the Vmax appears to be around 30.5gr h4895, which nets ~2845fps. I think I should be able to get 2700fps with the Eldm's if I switch to h4895

 

[King_beardsly]

that’s pretty awesome for a short barrel, I throw some light loads through my dasher and got 2771 with 105 hybrids over 30gr of varget but I’m in a 26” barrel.