[RiflesRock]

I was actually looking into using some Noslers or Barnes bullets just to try them. I hate to mess with perfection though. My rifle shoots so well, my grandfather prefected the load for this rifle and I just cant stand to mess with sucess. Never lost an animal so...I have seen some fantastic wound channels with my load usually it blows a hole in one side and leaves out one as big as my fist! Really messes up the meat if your shot placement is off. The reason I dont go to a heavier ball is that the barrel has 1:12 twist instead of the newer 1:10 twist. The rate in my rifle is to slow for bigger balls and accuracy suffers. Mind you 2 inches at 100 yards would be good enough for most deer hunting. It is not good enough for groundhog and this being a dual purpose rifle i use the 85 grain ball. The barrel is actually stamped .244 Remington which they later changed to 6mm Remington later on. Same thing. If Remington had chambered rifles in 1:10 twist from the get go it may be the dominate smaller caliber in the woods instead of the .243 Winchester, but that is one of histories odd occurances. I still argue that the 6mm Remington is better because it has a longer neck and is more suitable for reloading. (Which I do). I also feel that it is better adopted to the Mauser action. (which i shoot). I have to praise that action it is THE best out there except the 1903 Springfield may be better but it is just a copy anyway for the most part. So accurate, reliable, and fast as jugded by last years deer I got. I got off 2 shots in about 5 seconds. First standing, hit, second deer took off ( I COULD SEE THE ENTRENCE HOLE IN THE SCOPE) as i lined up for the second but not needed running shot. Which i missed by the way but not by much. Thank you all for the comments and stories they are good to hear.