The 6UM

[TradLife406]

10 shot group with a few of my fire forming loads. Not bad!!!! 99 pieces fire formed today! Man that rifle is sweet!!! Recoil is so much less than my old 6.5 PRC!

 

[Bhollo]

10 shot group with a few of my fire forming loads. Not bad!!!! 99 pieces fire formed today! Man that rifle is sweet!!! Recoil is so much less than my old 6.5 PRC!

Looking good already. What did you use for your fire forming load? Powder charge and bullet?

 

[TradLife406]

Looking good already. What did you use for your fire forming load? Powder charge and bullet?

The one in the first page or two of the UM reloading thread. 55 grains of 7828 and 105 Hornady areomatch bullets.
I ran out of that then used 58 grains of h1000 for the last 10 or 15.

I felt bad for that poor barrel. It was 90 out and I wasn't worrying about letting it cool down at all. A wise man told me that barrel temp doesn't really matter. From what I saw I can confirm this. I actually did a lot of work on running the bolt and fast follow up shots.