Thread: 6x45 Rem barrel

Originally Posted by GWH

I'm loving these threads of yours showing your projects, I'm envious of your skills and ability to machine up and fit barrels etc. Bloody cool and handy.

I've been interested in the 6x45 for a number of years now. Seems a very capable little cartridge.

I'm starting to like playing with these little cartridges, they are just no fuss at all and fun to shoot all day.

My 223 with 75 gr eldms and my 6.5 Grendel are lots of fun and surprisingly capable.

Thanks mate, machining my own stuff certainly adds some enjoyment and sense of achievement to my hobby for sure. It has me experimenting with all sorts of wildcats which keeps things interesting.

I have done my time with the big magnums and they just really don't interest me anymore. Its not like we have an abundance of moose to hunt in NZ and in the scheme of things our game animals are actually quite small. Personally I Im a big fan of medium to small high efficiency cartridges shooting softer more frangable bullets. At the longer ranges and lower velocities they behave more like a harder bullet at magnum cartridge velocities.
The 6x45 is exactly that and like you say you could shoot it all day and it would be very pleasant.

My .223 barrel is a 1-9" twist so I stick with 69gr TMKs which are great on varmints and goats but this new 6mm shooting the 75gr-85gr hollow points is just that step above.
While I have picked off the odd goat way out there, most my shooting is inside 500m Im confident in saying anything inside 500m is well and truly not safe with my .308win with 175gr TMKs, 6.5 Creedmore with 147gr ELDMs or 6.5x47 Lapua with 130gr TMKs.

My 6.5 Grendel is still my favorite little rifle and capable cartridge, super fun and if I could only pick one I think that would be it.