09 September 2006, 17:26
blooper243 Speer 105RN
I have come into a small quantity of these bullets for my 243.
Has anyone had any experience with these bullets.
Will work up a load if your replies are positive.
Thanks in advance for your help.
Blooper
09 September 2006, 21:53
bartsche
Interesting you posted this just now. On a 25-06 thread now going I indicated wounding some Elk as a young man with a 6mmx.270 IMP. using the wrong or unintended bullet. The bullet in question was the Speer 105 RN. At the velocities that rifle was reaching I think that bullet would have come apart on a ground squirrel.

roger
10 September 2006, 00:42
Don Fischerbartsche,
Just courious. Why did you choose a 105gr RN bullet in a 6mm-270IMP?
10 September 2006, 12:47
seafire/B17GBloop;
that bullet is out of production, but a charge of between 38 to 43 grains of H 414 will make a very accurate load...
Work up in your rifle... I have one that will take up to 44 grains of H 414 with no problems ( Model 70) and another that only likes it up to like 41 grains or so ( Ruger 77 Mk 2)...
10 September 2006, 21:10
bartschequote:
Originally posted by Don Fischer:
bartsche,
Just courious. Why did you choose a 105gr RN bullet in a 6mm-270IMP?
Don, this goes back to about 1967 when I had five kids to feed on Colorado wages. I think someone gave them to me. It certainly wasn't a designed scenario.

roger
10 September 2006, 21:51
LeftoverdjIf memory serves, those bullets were intended for the .244 Rem. Those rifles were handicapped by too slow a twist to reliably stabilize 100 grain spitzers, but many of the owners wanted a deer bullet for their varmint rifles. The shorter RN bullets would stabilize and turned the .244 into a passable deer rifle.
Remington long since increased the twist rate and changed the name to 6mm Rem so those bullets are now a solution to which there is no problem.
11 September 2006, 01:38
bartschequote:
Originally posted by Leftoverdj:
If memory serves, those bullets were intended for the .244 Rem. Those rifles were handicapped by too slow a twist to reliably stabilize 100 grain spitzers, but many of the owners wanted a deer bullet for their varmint rifles. The shorter RN bullets would stabilize and turned the .244 into a passable deer rifle..
Good memory!

roger