Remington 600 Mohawk 6MM barrel twist

5mmgunguy

November 15, 2012 06:37

What is the barrel twist on a Remington 600 Mohawk in 6MM Remington? I thought it was 1-9.

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  llama

  November 15, 2012 06:49

  Measure it. Get a long dowel with a tight fitting patch on it, put a little tape flag on it to give yourself an index, and slowly pull it out of the barrel. When your flag has made a full circle, measure how much you've pulled out.

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  charliemeyer007

  November 15, 2012 07:00

  700's are listed as 1-9 in 6mm.

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  tsr1965

  November 15, 2012 07:07

  The early 6mm's were supposedly all 1 in 9. It was the 244 Remington which had the slower twist that didn't like the 100 grain bullets. That was Big Green's fix, to rename it, and change the twist. As much as things change, they remain the same...still seems to be their MO today.
  
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  nononsense

  November 15, 2012 12:11

  5mmgunguy,
  
  Here's the reference list I use:
  
  244 Remington - 1 in 10" . . . . . .Remington 700
  244 Remington - 1 in 12" . . . . . .Remington 722, 760, 740, 725, 40-XB; Sako
  6mm Remington - 1 in 9" . . . . . .Remington 600, 700, 742, 760, 660; Browning
  B-78; Ruger
  6mm Remington - 1 in 9" . . . . . .Remington 700, 4, 6, 7, 7400,7600
  6mm Remington - 1 in 10" . . . . .Remington 40-XB; Schultz and Larsen;
  Ruger 1, 77; Browning
  
  The best check is to use a cleaning rod with a snug patch to measure the twist of an existing barrel.
  
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  sandwarrior,
  
  quote:but I sometimes wonder what Remington really does sometimes.
  
  Don't we all?
  
  Major corporation in America often do strange things on what appears in retrospect to be a whim. I don't think Remington is any different. They are market driven but it's the stock market that drives them not the consumer market.
  
  As to the original train of thought, Remington and other firearms manufacturers have always used 'transition parts' to make finished firearms even if they were a mixed bag of previous runs now discontinued. I personally have never seen an M700 with a .244 Rem. barrel but that's not an all-conclusive remark either since I can't claim to have seen every M700 manufactured or the potential combinations of mixed run parts. I have seen several variation of M725, M722, M600/660 and M700 which are not cataloged or acknowledged as existing by Remington. Yet, lo and behold, I have had them in my hands.
  
  The only thing I can state is that this list I use has been checked against factory records for accuracy. But as with any other document, the potential exists for a flaw.
  
  Best.

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  sandwarrior

  November 15, 2012 13:50

  nononsense,
  
  I get confused, as I read and I am told, that the .244 was never produced in the model 700 nor did it come in a 1-10" twist. Only it's initial offering of 1-12", and when the 725 was introduced in 1959, the twist that it changed to 1-9", were ever offered in the 722.
  
  Long after the gun writers browbeat Remington into going back to 1-10" like the .243, did they eventually go that route for a number of years. Until finally, deciding they made the correct decision in going with a 1-9" twist in 1962, of going back to that twist.
  
  So, my question is: Have you run across Model 700's in .244? That would be a pretty rare bird, and something to hang on to if you did.
  
  As far as this goes, it's just a tangent from the original topic, but I sometimes wonder what Remington really does sometimes.
  
  
  Edit:
  Yeah, I see what you're saying...it's Remington.

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