Anybody out there with actual experience with this cartridge? I am not interested in google search data, thanks, just personal experience. I have load data from a computer program, but none from actual users.
Doug
Doug
6 x 62 Freres
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So, here is a bit of an update, and to bring this onto the first page again......The published data seems to indicate a maximum COAL of 3.23". BUT in my rifle that bullet is well into the rifling and pressure, already fairly high, might get catastrophically so. I decided I want to try a 103 grain Hornady ELD-X bullet for my first load, and it has to be seated quite a bit deeper, for a COAL of 3.1675". I am waiting for another member here who has a couple computer load data programs, to suggest a starting load. Looks like H1000 will be the first powder to try.
So>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>anybody out there with real world experience with this cartridge?
Doug
So>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>anybody out there with real world experience with this cartridge?
Doug
Ardent
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
Foreword apology, this isn’t 6 Frere real world experience, just thoughts from the fast and small world. There’s merit in the 6mm-7mm hyper speed concept for long zeros, you can have +\- 4” to well over 350 yards with many of the options in the class.
Not the same thing, but a quick comparison shows them to be remarkably similar. I collected everything for a .25 Gibbs when I was very goat minded, 1/9 twist. Idea was to shoot as far as possible with a long zero and dead hold, which it will do to 350 yards easily. I geared up with 115 Bergers.
I had .257 Roberts at the time, and found on the range I could generate similar long zero shooting with it by dropping the bullet weight, so I gave up on the Gibbs. But when looking to extract every bit of speed and range… there’d be a difference. The easiest way into that world is the ‘Bee of course. But it’s not for everyone.
Not the same thing, but a quick comparison shows them to be remarkably similar. I collected everything for a .25 Gibbs when I was very goat minded, 1/9 twist. Idea was to shoot as far as possible with a long zero and dead hold, which it will do to 350 yards easily. I geared up with 115 Bergers.
I had .257 Roberts at the time, and found on the range I could generate similar long zero shooting with it by dropping the bullet weight, so I gave up on the Gibbs. But when looking to extract every bit of speed and range… there’d be a difference. The easiest way into that world is the ‘Bee of course. But it’s not for everyone.
It has a VERY short barrel, at only 18 inches. Not the length I would have chosen for this chambering, but I did not have it built. The twist is 1:7, so it should stabilize the heavier bullets. I reckon I am going to find out.........
Doug
Doug
Ardent, Thanks for your input. I have had a couple rifles in .240 Weatherby, great cartridge but all I ever shot with it was paper. If my research so far is correct (and it is from the Internet 
) then the starting load data for the 6 x 62 Freres is the .240 Wby data.
Load data is all black magic to me even after loading for well over a hundred different cartridges and who knows how many recipes! Without data I have no earthly idea what might be a good powder choice, etc etc.
Doug
) then the starting load data for the 6 x 62 Freres is the .240 Wby data.Load data is all black magic to me even after loading for well over a hundred different cartridges and who knows how many recipes! Without data I have no earthly idea what might be a good powder choice, etc etc.
Doug
Here is the seller's description:
The rifle: unfired, nicely ceracoated Brno zg-47
Custom stock, high grade wood, glass bedded. This is an exceptionally fine stock
Lothar walther barrel 1:7 twist designed to shoot the heavies. 18” long
Chambered in 6x62 freres
Rings included, also comes with a custom picatiny rail
Checkered steel buttplate
