Forums
New posts
Search forums
What's new
New posts
New media
New media comments
Latest activity
Classifieds
Media
New media
New comments
Search media
Log in
Register
What's New?
Search
Search
Search titles only
By:
New posts
Search forums
Menu
Log in
Register
Navigation
Install the app
Install
More Options
Advertise with us
Contact Us
Close Menu
JavaScript is disabled. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding.
You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly.
You should upgrade or use an
alternative browser
.
Forums
The Range
Ammo & Reloading
Mystery Mauser and 6mm Rem continued…
Search titles only
By:
Reply to Thread
This site may earn a commission from merchant affiliate links, including eBay, Amazon, and others.
Message
<blockquote data-quote="PanhandleGlocker" data-source="post: 3848568" data-attributes="member: 25311"><p>Little background… some of you have seen it in the classifieds. But along with the firearms I bought the other day I got 2 factory boxes of Federal 6mm Remington and a range box with what looked to be 6mm Remington reloads; about 60 of them and some spent cases in the box. I thought this makes sense since there’s a nice Remington 700 in that caliber in the collection of guns I bought. With my experimenting trying to figure out the chambering of the Mystery Mauser I got a wild hair and decided to take a spent case from that ammo box and chamber it in the Remington 700 I have that’s chambered in 6mm Remington. To my surprise It would not chamber.. at all. I thought that was extremely weird. </p><p></p><p>So I took a factory 6mm Rem round… and it chambered as it should </p><p></p><p>Then I took one of those 6mm Rem reloads and it WOULD NOT chamber in the Remington. I thought what the hell… got my calipers and my reloading manual out. Looks like 6mm Rem is allowed a COL of 2.825. These reloads are 2.935. I’m somewhat familiar with chasing the lands because for my .308win RPR I load the COL a little longer than manual states but this seems outrageously long though. </p><p></p><p>From what I can tell the chamber must be pretty ‘loose’ in the Mauser for the brass to expand that much too. </p><p></p><p>(I may be wrong on the above statement and the following statement I am about to say too.) </p><p></p><p>The diameter of the factory loaded brass is .462 the diameter of the spent casing is .468. Obviously there should be some size difference since the spent brass isn’t sized but anyways I’ll continue… I’m still a newbie to this sort of stuff. </p><p></p><p>I’ve already took the 6mm Rem spent cases and they chamber in the Mystery Mauser fine. The factory ammo I have chambers fine and I took the reloaded round to the Mystery Mauser and it chambers fine. This chambering must be pretty open for a round with a COL of 2.935” to chamber easily. </p><p></p><p>I’m in the 90-100% certain range that this Mauser is chambered in 6mm Rem. It appears the reloads are not for the Remington 700 though which really surprises me. </p><p></p><p>This is my assumption without casting the chamber. Thoughts?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="PanhandleGlocker, post: 3848568, member: 25311"] Little background… some of you have seen it in the classifieds. But along with the firearms I bought the other day I got 2 factory boxes of Federal 6mm Remington and a range box with what looked to be 6mm Remington reloads; about 60 of them and some spent cases in the box. I thought this makes sense since there’s a nice Remington 700 in that caliber in the collection of guns I bought. With my experimenting trying to figure out the chambering of the Mystery Mauser I got a wild hair and decided to take a spent case from that ammo box and chamber it in the Remington 700 I have that’s chambered in 6mm Remington. To my surprise It would not chamber.. at all. I thought that was extremely weird. So I took a factory 6mm Rem round… and it chambered as it should Then I took one of those 6mm Rem reloads and it WOULD NOT chamber in the Remington. I thought what the hell… got my calipers and my reloading manual out. Looks like 6mm Rem is allowed a COL of 2.825. These reloads are 2.935. I’m somewhat familiar with chasing the lands because for my .308win RPR I load the COL a little longer than manual states but this seems outrageously long though. From what I can tell the chamber must be pretty ‘loose’ in the Mauser for the brass to expand that much too. (I may be wrong on the above statement and the following statement I am about to say too.) The diameter of the factory loaded brass is .462 the diameter of the spent casing is .468. Obviously there should be some size difference since the spent brass isn’t sized but anyways I’ll continue… I’m still a newbie to this sort of stuff. I’ve already took the 6mm Rem spent cases and they chamber in the Mystery Mauser fine. The factory ammo I have chambers fine and I took the reloaded round to the Mystery Mauser and it chambers fine. This chambering must be pretty open for a round with a COL of 2.935” to chamber easily. I’m in the 90-100% certain range that this Mauser is chambered in 6mm Rem. It appears the reloads are not for the Remington 700 though which really surprises me. This is my assumption without casting the chamber. Thoughts? [/QUOTE]
Insert Quotes…
Verification
Post Reply
Forums
The Range
Ammo & Reloading
Mystery Mauser and 6mm Rem continued…
Search titles only
By:
Top
Bottom