6mm-250

27 October 2003, 15:56

<DLS>

6mm-250

Hi everyone,
I have a few questons concerning this cartridge. I am sending a Rem 700 Action to Pac-Nor to be trued up and rebarreled to 6x250. Anyway My understanding is that this cartridge is just a 22-250 necked up to 6mm and shoulder angles, length, body taper, etc will stay the same. I want to keep this rifle as a repeater.

I wanted an easy round to wildcat and didn't want to go the Tubbs 6X route.

On a search of this forum there seems to be a few users of this round.

Where can I find dies for this one? I thought about using Redding 22-250 bushing dies with a larger bushing, Approx. .270. However I don't know if this will work.

Can anyone help?
Thanks, Dan

27 October 2003, 19:45

dantec

CH4D make die ( not costly )

you are right for bushing you can use 22.250 Redding S with 6 mm bushing ( size depend of the neck dia and neck thickness )perhaps need to increase gap from 22.250 to 6 mm in th edie that can be done with a small post grinder on a lathe

6/22.250 is anice wildcat I prefer use the 6X with 20ï¿½ shoulder because that just a 243 WIN run short and case body have lees taper than 22.250 a very good wilcat in 6 mm base on 22.250 is the 240 NMM

good shooting

DAN TEC

31 October 2003, 23:11

tom holland

quote:
Originally posted by DLS:
Hi everyone,
I have a few questons concerning this cartridge. I am sending a Rem 700 Action to Pac-Nor to be trued up and rebarreled to 6x250. Anyway My understanding is that this cartridge is just a 22-250 necked up to 6mm and shoulder angles, length, body taper, etc will stay the same. I want to keep this rifle as a repeater.

I wanted an easy round to wildcat and didn't want to go the Tubbs 6X route.

On a search of this forum there seems to be a few users of this round.

Where can I find dies for this one? I thought about using Redding 22-250 bushing dies with a larger bushing, Approx. .270. However I don't know if this will work.

Can anyone help?
Thanks, Dan

I'm doing a 6/22-250 and alittle different from your 6/250. I have a set of 6HLS dies that I'm going to have reamed out. You might want to give Redding a call or Neil Jones can make you a set of shoulder bumping dies plus the seater and they run alittle over $200. for the set. He's at neiljones.com. I looked at the 6X and agreed with you. Wilson makes a 6INTL seater that can be reamed out to fit your 6/250 or it may work like it is also you can get a neck die for the 250 and use a bushing to get it down to the 6/250. I hope to have mine in about 2 mos. Well good luck, Tom

05 November 2003, 23:32

John Bartels

My wife's Rem 700 was rebuilt as a 6/250 earlier this year. We've be very impressed with the cartridge. Plenty of power/speed, but less noise and recoil than the 243 (though not dramatically less). Accuracy, using a mid weight barrel has been excellent.

Her chamber was cut as a straight neck up of the 22/250. Shoulder is exactly the same, and 22/250 gauges were used in preparing the chamber. The neck is reasonably tight at .265.

For dies I'm using a bit of mix and match. If I need to set the shoulder back, a 22/250 body die will work. We polished the hole in the centre a bit so that it was not neck sizing at the same time. It only needed a couple thou to be removed. This process hasn't been needed as yet.

Neck sizing is being done with a Redding Type S 22/250 die, using a .261 bushing. Works perfectly.

Bullet seating is currently done using a 6*47 die, though I have a Redding competition 6mm/250 die on order.

Loads have been kept fairly mild, but it's pushing the 65gr Vmax along a 3480 fps. The 58 should be good for around 3600 fps.

It's a nice easy wildcat...

[ 11-05-2003, 14:47: Message edited by: John Bartels ]

06 November 2003, 13:56

Swany

Do a search for 6mm international, this is a 250 necked down to 6mm. I would think they would be quite similar.

10 November 2003, 06:52

cummins cowboy

why not call it a 24-250. Kinda in keeping the inches and metric thing seperate

13 November 2003, 12:30

doc-and

There's an excellant article on the 6mm-250 in "The Varmint Hunter Magazine" April 2001 Issue #38. If you can find a copy. If you can't email me and I scan the article and forward it to you

doc-and

13 November 2003, 14:24

<JBelk>

This is puzzling to me..

There are already TWO 6mm-250s..... one of which had a limited run of factory rifles and ammo. Why in the world would somebody come up with another one?? [Confused]

The small sixes are great fun. I think they'd be much more popular had the 6mm International been legal for hunter class BR competition but both were a grain short in capacity. That's why the 6x51 B&S was done.