THX!!
Rifle is in Cerakote Muddy River and furniture is flat dark earth..
It has a different scope now also. A Leupold 6.5-20 30mm tubed Vari-X3, side focus, varmint reticle.
This is my 1st 6x45 I built. OD green furniture and the metal is Cerakote Forest Green. I did change the buttstock to a Magpul ACS. I might sell this one.
Not bad at all from an AR-15.. My Oly AR-15 24" upper in 243 WSSM stays right with the 243 Win. 62gr Barnes Varmint Grenade with 52.5 grs of Ramshot Hunter zooms out at 3975 FPS
That's the beauty of the AR platform. They've advanced so far and become so versatile since my 1st M-16 A1(made by General Motors).
I've got 2 in 6x45, 2 in 6.5 Grendel, a 50 Beowulf, a 243 WSSM, a 223 and a 338 Federal in the DPMS LR platform.
Well, went out and test fired the 6.5 today. Just one round for function/chamber check. I didn't have any "good" bullets so I just loaded up a cheap 120gr Privi-Partisan HP that I bought in bulk to use as plinking rounds in my 6.5 Grendels. I can only load single shot until this next week when I...
These 6x45's in AR's are just plain sweet. Just got back from test firing my newest build. I started with the gas port at 0.81" but it wasn't cycling properly(ejecting but the carrier wasn't going back far enough to pick up another round. I went up to 0.085"(same as Les Baer uses in his 16") and...
Yeah, the lower pressures of the 6x45 compared to 5.56 allow that extra velocity. Its a slick little AR-15 round. I think for a light weight bolt gun, I'd just keep it in 243 Win for the extra power though.
This newest bbl I put on a baked graphite black Cerakote finish. It matches the upper very close. I used a Mid West Industries free floating handguard. I used a YHM gas block with flip up sight and a DPMS detachable rear A-2 sight. I haven't decided on a scope yet. Might just sell the upper once...
I just put together an upper I built using a Shilen CM bbl blank that I profiled/chambered. It's an 18" mid-length gas. I really like the 6x45, super easy to load for and brass is more than plentiful. Will probably get out tomorrow and do a test fire.
I've been using Ramshot Hunter with decent results out of my 243 WSSM 24" bbl'd Oly Arms AR-15 upper. With 52.5 grs of Hunter, I'm shooting .25" at 100 yards with the 6mm 62gr Barnes Varmint Grenades at 3975 FPS. That's the only load I tried with Hunter. It's shooting minute of Chuck head so I...