VarmintGuy
1 post
Oct 02, 2004
9:48 PM
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May I be so bold as to interject here a very small passage from the fascinating article "Secrets Of The Houston Warehouse" from some years back out of the Precision Shooting Magazine.
The purpose for me enclosing this passage is to inject some very fascinating and VERY impressive performance reports on the 6mm BR! In the F.A.Q. section of this site someone alluded to the 6mm BR ceding accuracy potential to the 6mm PPC. I think after reading the enclosed passage and then the complete article people may not want to doubt the 6mm BR's potential so emphatically! The following is one brief but profound statement regarding the 6mm BR!
"That’s not to say that the bulk of rifles showing up there (at the Houston warehouse) — even the reworked ones — would shoot in the zeros. Virgil estimated he could count on his fingers the rifles he had seen that would consistently shoot to this awesome accuracy level. T.J. Jackson owned two such rifles, both chambered by him for 6BR. One of his rifles, a Heavy Varmint class gun, consistently shot .050". The other, a lighter rifle, would hold at about .060". T.J. also built an exceptional 6PPC for a customer, which T.J. later purchased. Why? We can assume part of the reason is that it grouped at the .050" level. Frank Wilson had two rifles that would shoot in the zeros, but only after they had been reworked." End of copied passage.
Any cartridge that can "consistently" agg in the 0's from Varmint Class Rifles is bordering on "absolute" or virtually absolute accuracy!
After reading the whole original article - which I will attempt to add the link to - I see no reason what so ever to make or tolerate any excuse or hedging of the incredible accuracy that is possible using the 6mm Remington Benchrest cartridge!
http://www.angelfire.com/ma3/max357/houston.html
Long live the exceptional 6mm Remington Benchrest cartridge!
Hold into the wind
VarmintGuy
Last Edited by VarmintGuy on Oct 02, 2004 9:50 PM
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DANTEC
Charter Member
28 posts
Oct 03, 2004
9:39 AM
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absolute accuracy is the results of numerous facts and parameters , I agree than REM BR case design is very good but resume accuracy to a case name / brand is not the real true .
basic accuracy respice is :
quality assembly ( anything with poor assembly make poor result or erratic results )
quality of component
ACTION
stiff action
fast lock time
low vibration
symetrical design
stable bedding
no stress assembly
BARREL
cocentric and straight barrel
stress less steel barrel
CHAMBERING
cocentric chambering
good design reamer
tight headspace
STOCK
low center gravity stock
stif stock ( like a mecanical beam )
good ridding on bag
and the last componnet
RELOADING COMPONENTS
cocentric case
same volume case
cocentric jacquet / core bullet
good powder with the right burning rate
good primer
AND THE MOST IMPORTANT
a good and skill shooter because many think that put $$$$$ in a top brand rifle equal making groups in the 0 , even in building ( no wind ) making amazing tight group need more than basic shooter skill
good shooting and enjoy ultra precision shooting
DAN TEC
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mikecr
11 posts
Oct 03, 2004
12:15 PM
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What scope was used? If Leupold, then shall we say that they are absolutely the most accurate scopes on earth?
It must be.
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DANTEC
Charter Member
29 posts
Oct 03, 2004
12:18 PM
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Leupold with Tucker conversion perhaps without surely not
good shooting
DAN TEC
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mikecr
12 posts
Oct 03, 2004
2:03 PM
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Good shooting to you too, Dantec.
Now that you've mentioned it, would you know what a Tucker conversion is? Do you rekon his fix might work on LR tactical models, such as an 8x25M1?
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DANTEC
Charter Member
30 posts
Oct 04, 2004
6:04 AM
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Tucker conversion is base on the tip to add a spring housing at 135° from elevation turret to force the errector tube to stay in contact with the two turret and when you take or remove clics you are sure that your errector tube moove and your impact moove of the value of the clics you have put on turret
IOR scope hold this system , some Burris too , I doesn t why LR 30 mm tube Leupold scope can not wear this modification , most modification are done on 24x and 36 x BR scope
good shooting
DAN TEC
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DANTEC
Charter Member
32 posts
Oct 04, 2004
10:55 PM
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ok
I try to explain by another way
when there is the need to make the proof of some thing as a complex things as accuracy that need to be very carefull , I have not write that 6 BR was not the best accuracy cartridge I have write that accuracy is the sum of lot of things and not a basic sum , so remove one defect doesn t cut accuracy by 2
exemple:
shoot a top rifle in 6 BR using Sierra bullet
shhot the same with just switching Sierra with Berger ( only one change ) doesnt make a gain of 2
If I can make another short a cut than
a old mauser 98 rebarrel with a entry price 6 mm barrel and chambering mage with a generic reamer 6 BR with solid pilot all fit straight on a old wood stock
and
a full race 6 PPC with Farley action, Edge stock all assembly by a top gunsmith
will not give the same accuracy even if one is in 6 BR
there is a very interesting book to own and read in the Accuracy Fact by Vaught , this man dissambly step by step all facts of accuracy
Houston ware house was far more interesting if they have shoot side by side or in switch barrel gun the 6 PPC and the 6 BR , that was allow to strictly compare only cartridge accuracy
last point : the relative no use of 6 BR in BR shooting came from a big part from the fact that there was no good quality case available during 20 year and we have just get top quality case in 6 BR since the born of 6 Norma and the avaibility of Norma and Lapua .
good shooting
DAN TEC
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