6mm TCU and 7mmTCU

[Texas Hillbilly]

anybody have any experience with these calibers,I've got way to much 223 brass set a side, and I work at lot with the 6mm and the 243win. seeing how I cast for them all ready, I guess my next step is to round up a good Gunsmith and a couple T/C Encore barrels
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[Brad]

Are you paying attention Rick?

 

[Texas Hillbilly]

Sir is this the right area for this post?? still learning my way around here

 

[Brad]

It is fine, I'm just waiting for the guy who knows the TCU cartridges to come along.

Oh Rick, where are you?

 

[Glen]

I've got a fair amount of experience loading for both the 6.5 and 7 TCU, but I have only loaded cast in the 6.5 TCU (I intend to try cast in the 7 TCU, just haven't done it yet). I am about to start loading cast in a 6mm PPC Contender as soon as I get my mould back from Erik, but I haven't done so yet. The TCU cartridges are some of my favorites -- very accurate, and with the right bullets, kill deer very well.

 

[Texas Hillbilly]

Glenn which mold are you waiting on?

 

[Rick]

RCBS 145 gr GC & 4895 in the 7, been several years since I loaded it and don't remember the charge but it should be in several of the manuals. I have a 6.5 TCU 10" but have done very little with it, Glen should be able to help with that one.

 

[Glen]

The 10" 6.5 TCU is a GREAT little deer gun when loaded with the Nosler 120 Ballistic Tip at 2100 fps. As for cast, the throat on my factory 6.5 TCU barrel runs .267" and I size all cast bullets for it to .266" (bullets sized .264" give poor accuracy). The Ideal 266455 HP weighs 122 grains after the installation of a gas-check and lube. When this fine bullet is loaded on top of 26.0 grains of H4895 a muzzle velocity of 1838 fps is obtained. 5-shot groups at 50 yards run right at one inch and expansion is excellent. I haven't shot anything with this load that was larger than a prairie dog, but I would be confident that it would do well on antelope and smaller deer.

 

[Glen]

Glenn which mold are you waiting on?

I just bought an RCBS 6mm 100 grain mould that I am sending to Erik to convert to HP. I have all the dimensions worked out, and I think it will end up about a 90 grain HP, and I am hoping to shoot it at ~2000-2100 fps from my 6mm PPC Contender. My expectation is that it will be a great varmint bullet, and maybe even for smaller exotics (I really want to shoot a blackbuck someday...).

 

[Texas Hillbilly]

Glenn we think alot alike I've been toying with the same ideal,I would like to get Al @NOE to make a HP 6mm, I got a sweet little 6mm 43gr GC FN& a 46gr.GC FN Made for a squirrel rounds,I got to cleaning the shop one day and noticed I'm setting on about 10 or 15K or more of 223 cases and about the same number of 308 I've shot 308 and 30-06 for ever back in the 70's we played with this same ideal with the 7mm/308 which is now known as the 7mm-08,so that got me to thinking what can I use some of this brass for?? So that's how it started a ideal was born. there really isn't much information out there on these rounds