Our gun club collects all brass in 50 gallon barrels. If someone doesn’t want their brass the members and their guests are encouraged to put their fired brass in these barrels. Our club then takes the brass and separates it by caliber. .223, .22-250, .243, etc. It is then de-primed, cleaned, polished and packaged into lots of 50 then put up for sale to the members at very reasonable prices. What is really strange is that over the last couple of years 6mm brass is getting scarce. Either more 6mm shooters are getting into reloading or their isn’t as many 6mm shooters out there as there used to be. Is the popularity of the 6mm’s fading or what? If so why do you think it’s fading? Lawdog

Lawdog-IMO the 6 Rem is a wonderful round, but in the world of sales it has not been cutting the biscuit for a long time.

Mark D

You won't find many 6mm shells in the range brass buckets simply because it also serves as a varmint round. People do not tend to easily part with their dual purpose brass. You'll also see very few .22 centefire brass casings except for the .223. Most of us who reload a great deal are careful about what we toss away. Just one mans opinion. Best wishes.

Cal - Montreal

quote:

Originally posted by Cal Sibley:
You won't find many 6mm shells in the range brass buckets simply because it also serves as a varmint round. People do not tend to easily part with their dual purpose brass. You'll also see very few .22 centefire brass casings except for the .223. Most of us who reload a great deal are careful about what we toss away. Just one mans opinion. Best wishes.

Cal - Montreal

That's my guess as well....however the 6 MM Rem has never been a big seller....it's a sad cartridge that should have been.....and wasn't!

Well, whether popular or not, the 6mm Rem is my favorite 6mm( 243 bore) cartridge.... however, I put it in a long action, and then it is definitely a performer over the 243.. and gives up little if anything to the 240 Weatherby....

Factory ammo, it and the 243 are the same round....

Handloaded, there can be a world of difference in the two.....

cheers
seafire

Roger that! Have been happily hunting with the little 6mm Rem since 1974. That's a couple of years now... Mostly varmints and predators, but some deer with it as well. Great little cartridge that was also perfect for bringing my youngest son along as a shooter and hunter.

As long as they keep making brass for it, I'm in business. Guy

When I said 6mm cartridges I meant all 6mm's, .243 Winchester included. Not just the 6mm Remington. Lawdog

I think the 6mm popularity is fading slightly, but largly because folks can afford more rifles now than they could 15 or 20 years ago.

Instead of buying a "dual purpose" 6mm they are buying a centerfire 22 for varmits and a 25, 6.5, or 7mm for deer.

I have a 243 and took a couple deer with it, but eventually got a 22-250 for varmiting and have a variety of 25s & 6.5s for deer. I rarely shoot the 243 anymore -- in fact I gave it to my wife as a low recoil gun. I also don't like loading for the 243. The brass streches too much in my gun and thus it requires constant trimming.

However, I do admit that I am toying with the idea of building up a 6mm-06 just for fun.

Barstooler

You can still easily get 6MM Remington ammo but the last batch I bought the box was marked 100 grain PSPCl and in actuality the cases held the 80 grain PSP. Same thing last year. That aside I believe that the multiple rifle theory holds merit though down here in Texas the 243 has to be in the top four most popular rounds. The biggest change I see is the WSM series is making big inroads into 7MM Remington mag popularity.