Anybody shot a short barrel 6mm Remington?

[hounddogman]

So reading about the new US triple 6 got me thinking about a old rifle gathering dust in the safe. It was a surplus 98 Mauser that was used as a graduation project for a gunsmith college that I bought cheap maybe 20 years ago. It's been all trued up and has a hand laid fiberglass stock and a medium weight 25 inch barrel in 6mm Remington . It's a good rifle that I just never gave much attention to. I was thinking about cutting it down to 17 inches for a overall 20 inches with a US triple 6. But I'm not sure how well the old 6mm / 7X57 case design works in a short barrel. Think it could still hit 2800 with a 103 ELD-X ?

 

[Castle Rock]

While the smith has it for threading get him to set the barrel back and chamber in 6 CM maybe?

 

[Castle Rock]

On second thought it probably isn’t worthwhile rechambering with a slow twist barrel