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Re: Remington's 6.8x43

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15 February 2004, 12:53
bartsche
Re: Remington's 6.8x43
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"Once again we re-invent the wheel, eh??

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Yes and NO!!! The wheel is missing a few spokes. What we need is Kalagnikopff to jump on his crtches and get his butt in high gear desiging us a new grunt rifle to handle the optimum bullet !!! Whatever that turns out to be.
15 February 2004, 07:46
<JOHAN>
Gentlemen



This is funny

Now the US. forces will hunt taliban's and Al Quaida with Old Jack O'Connors favorite the 6,8 is 277'inch in diameter. The case it s bit puny. 6,5X43 should work too I guess Elmer Keith is turning in his grave



Austrians have used the 243 win for their Steyr SSG sniper rifles



/ JOHAN
15 February 2004, 14:08
B17G
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Less ommph that a 7/08, but more than a 243.




"That would be a .260

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Of which I own three of Major Caliber!
09 January 2004, 03:08
Mulerider
As seen on their website, under new ammo. Additional info on SSK's site. Remington apparently does not have a rifle offered in the cartridge (yet), with its primary market the military/tactical. Uses a shortened 30 Rem case.
09 January 2004, 05:47
dSmith.45
Here's one thread I found on it. I was reading something else about it the other night but can't remember where. Basically .270 caliber designed to fit in the standard M16, 5.56x45mm Nato magazine. Barrett is rumored to be making new uppers for military issue. Don't know if this will be limited issue or will eventually be standard for all Army. Looks like an interesting cartridge and the Army has played with 24 to 27 caliber rifles since before the M1 Garand was issued.



Edit to add link to thread



http://64.177.53.248/ubb/Forum78/HTML/000512.html



Yeah, I'm sometimes a dumbass
15 February 2004, 05:29
R-WEST
Hi chrome.
R-West, What kind of velocity are you getting from the 7mm TCU out of your Model Seven ?
In the 20" barrel on that M7, I've gotten 130 Speers to 2,550 FPS and 120 Hdys to 2,600, using the old AA 2015BR (NOT the newer XMR2015 which is much slower) and AA 2230-C in Federal Premium brass. V-VN133, RL7 and RL10 are on the menu for testing, if winter ever gives me a break and some of the 6 feet of snow melts off my range

R-WEST
10 January 2004, 19:50
papaschmud
Methinks it would be an almost ideal cartridge for a CZ 527. From what I'd heard, they are claiming 2800 fps out of a 115. I think it would make a delightful little rifle for whitetails.

Gabe
10 January 2004, 21:26
s3v3ntyn1n3
I've been looking for what I can about this new people popper too. I really can't stand recoil, and I don't like scopes so i'm hoping remington makes a model 7 in this just for kicks (I would like to see it in a CZ 527 as well!). From other threads it sounds like it's been kicked around in multiple forms by wildcatters for some time, in .264 and .277 caliber. Can fit something like 28 in a 30 round m-16 mag, so for the loss of 2 rounds, you get better performance seems viable to me. Who knows if it will ever get to be a millitary round, but I think it might be dandy for most of the four legged things in my woods. Remington has said there are 3 versions of the cartridge planned (90, 115, 130 grain loadings???)
16 February 2004, 23:53
DUK
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Gentlemen

This is funny
Now the US. forces will hunt taliban's and Al Quaida with Old Jack O'Connors favorite the 6,8 is 277'inch in diameter. The case it s bit puny. 6,5X43 should work too I guess Elmer Keith is turning in his grave

Austrians have used the 243 win for their Steyr SSG sniper rifles

/ JOHAN



I knew they hunted everything with the .243 in Austria...
17 February 2004, 08:40
John G
115 gr. .277 bullet @ 2600 - 2800 fps doesn't do much for me. Might be okay for a youngster, but even then I think there are better choices.