22x47 Lapua vs. 6x47 Lapua plus a little data

[csterner]

My 6x47L is on a Rem 700 with (I think) a Lilja 10 twist barrel and a laminate stock RayH gave me. I'd rather have 8 or 9 for long range, 100+ grain bullets but it's great with 95 gr and under. I have had good luck with both 95 gr VLD's and SMK's. Haven't played much with them, but it does show pretty good accuracy with the 87 VMax, my preferred 6mm varmint bullet. I need to develop a load for that and see what it'll do.

It seems like a really easy cartridge to tune in. I worked up a load at 300 with the 95 gr SMK and H4895 one day a few years ago, loaded a few and took to birdog's range in TN and shot sub MOA groups at 800 fairly easily. Even took it way long (1428 yards) and with LOTS of holdover, hit a paint can lid! I've since purchased a Leupy 8-25 to go on it and a 20MOA rail to be able to go long without holdover, but haven't shot it since! Life gets in the way.

[montdoug]

This thread has been around a long time, Sept of 2006 was the big server crash when all those great archives went Bye-Bye and we all were signed-up again. . This thread was started by Fireball 3 months later. By that time I'd already been "Purchase Mentored" by him into converting that 788 from a .22-250 to a 6X47 Lapua. I went with a 1 in 12 twist Kreiger due to having a large number of 55 to 70 grain Varmint projectiles that were originally used in a 40X Remington 6MM-BR that came out of the custom shop with a tight neck and a 1 in 14 twist. It is currently a Tannel redone 40X in .20 Dasher with a 1 in 11 twist Pac-Nor 3 groove SM. I digress.
The 6X47 is not at all finicky and it is a rockchuck nightmare, great round!



I see a bunch of names in this thread that sadly aren't around much anymore, hope all are well. Howdy Al, great hearing from ya!

[pmg]

I wish all my 788s looked that good.

[montdoug]

Thanks PMG. It's the best looking 788 I've had as well. On top of that the 6X47 Lapua feeds out of that .22-250 magazine like it was designed for it.
Al my working load for that rifle with the 1 in 12 twist is the 65 grain V-Max at 3,700FPS and I'm not leaning on it at all, there is more FPS in there if a guy cared to go for it I'm sure. I found that load on the first pass and that was as high as I'd loaded to so I quit looking.
You don't care about the fur do ya? That'd pop pretty good on a coyote I suspect. Maybe one a the Berger Match bullets or a Sierra 70 grain MatchKing if the fur matters to ya as I think it does. Most guys go the route Charlie did I think but I just had to many Varmint weight projectiles and needed a means to that end.

[steve123]

Since my last post I sold my MAK tube rifle in 6x47l and had this ARC Mausingfield built with my same reamer. The chassis is a GRS Bolthorn, barrel is a 28" Krieger, trigger is a Calvin Elite SS set at 11.2 oz.

105 hybrids at 3172fps. No critter or vagrant steel is safe.

[NZVarminter]

interesting how often guys say the 6br/6 x47 lapua is ballisticly better than the 22 variants of the same case.

Sure if you compare a 6mm 105 vld against a 0.224 75g vld the 6mm will win in the wind past 300m. However 105g vld/s dont work for varminting, but the 69 TMK and 75AMax are high BC and still explosive so for varminting, I find the 0.224 cal shooting high BC 70-75g projectiles are better than the 6mm equivalents.

Even at the light bullet end, the 0.224 cal projectiles have higher BC which compensates for the slightly lower max velocity compared to 6mm 55g loads.

[georgeld]

NZV:

Sure don't take much difference in bullets to destroy fur.