Just like I take the dented cans of soup..

[Camel73]

Remember that tune as a kid.. "One of these things is not like the other one..."
Well, that's what went running through my head as I gazed upon this fine specimen!

[earlmck]

Is it hard to find brass for that?

[piller]

Is that round related to the .30-06 Remington? Or the 7mm Federal Magnum? Or the .44 Winchester Magnum? Or even the .270 Savage?

[Nath]

Now if it just said 244......

[Griff]

Oh man... you ACTUALLY found a set of those?!!! That's the super-secret sniper round that the CIA is now using... Supposedly has a BC of .957 and the powder produces lower pressures than "Leverlution"™ and cleans copper fouling better than"CFE"™. Why I'd heard that a couple of .gov representatives that refuse to name their agency have simply disappeared after hinting that a new round was commissioned...

Uhhh... where'd that tinfoil go?

[Alan in Vermont]

The first Lee mold I bought had to be returned as it was visibly defective. There was a little slip of paper in the box claiming it had been inspected by "Lucille". The letter I sent with it when I returned it offered that Maybe Lucille needed new glasses. Every Lee mold I have bought since then have all had the same slip of paper and apparently there is only one inspector on the line as they all claim to have been "Inspected by Lucille".

[Nath]

The first Lee mold I bought had to be returned as it was visibly defective. There was a little slip of paper in the box claiming it had been inspected by "Lucille". The letter I sent with it when I returned it offered that Maybe Lucille needed new glasses. Every Lee mold I have bought since then have all had the same slip of paper and apparently there is only one inspector on the line as they all claim to have been "Inspected by Lucille".

I would feel more confident if it said " inspected by bubba"

[AJMD429]

I don't want to start another "44 Colt vs 45 Magnum" thread, but geeez - everyone knows the 6mm Winchester is WAY more powerful than the 243 Remington...

[piller]

Is that the one based on the 7.62 Neato? Also known as the 30-08?

[765x53]

At a small gun show last year, I examined a mint 760 in.244 that the owner said had issues.
Because I'm a nice guy and I didn't have $250 in my pocket I tried to tell him he was trying to use the wrong ammo. He insisted they were the same, just different ammo companies.

[Rusty]

Oh man... you ACTUALLY found a set of those?!!! That's the super-secret sniper round that the CIA is now using... Supposedly has a BC of .957 and the powder produces lower pressures than "Leverlution"™ and cleans copper fouling better than"CFE"™. Why I'd heard that a couple of .gov representatives that refuse to name their agency have simply disappeared after hinting that a new round was commissioned...

Uhhh... where'd that tinfoil go?

Griff, it's aluminum foil now. We haven't worn tin foil for years.

[piller]

At a small gun show last year, I examined a mint 760 in.244 that the owner said had issues.
Because I'm a nice guy and I didn't have $250 in my pocket I tried to tell him he was trying to use the wrong ammo. He insisted they were the same, just different ammo companies.

If you would have bought that one, you could have formed brass from 7x57 mauser brass.

[GunnyMack]

Question is are they actually 243 does?
Are the dies marked 243 Remington?

[piller]

Darn. The fun from the mis-marking is over.

I haven't actually seen anything marked .244 Remington. I have seen 6mm Remington markings on one or two guns. Based on the specs that are available, the .244 Remington/6mm Remington is made from the 7x57 Mauser and has different dimensions from the .243 Winchester. I would want to make sure that the dies are .244 Remington. It sure does seem as someone with my level of knowledge, or maybe even less if that is possible, messed up the printer on that box.

The 6mm Remington does still seem to have a following.

[Griff]

Oh man... you ACTUALLY found a set of those?!!! That's the super-secret sniper round that the CIA is now using... Supposedly has a BC of .957 and the powder produces lower pressures than "Leverlution"™ and cleans copper fouling better than"CFE"™. Why I'd heard that a couple of .gov representatives that refuse to name their agency have simply disappeared after hinting that a new round was commissioned...

Uhhh... where'd that tinfoil go?

Griff, it's aluminum foil now. We haven't worn tin foil for years.

Aluminum foil just doesn't have the same properties of tinfoil...

[GunnyMack]

Back when I was in smiff skool I color cased a Mauser 98, it twisted at quench at rear bridge. Tried to straighten it and cracked! Had to anneal it, weld it re shape and re heat treat. Long story short I chambered it in 6 mm Remington. Holy cow did that rifle shoot! It liked everything I tried in it. Local rancher saw it and had to have it( I picked too nice of a stock blank for it).So it went for 6 Benjamin's.

A friend has a mid 60's vintage custom bolt gun in 244, it's his groundhog rifle. Bug hole groups with Hornady Vmax 60 grainers. It's the only rifle I've ever seen in 244.

[Pete44ru]

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While I've never owned a .244, I have owned/shot with both a Remington 742 auto-loader & a Browning B-78 single-shot in .6mm Remington.

The Remington was fodder for yet another gun trade before I got the chance to hunt it; but the Browning took a nice Eastern Canadian whitetail (in the rain, of course) on my only hunting trip outside the USA.

The 6mm's had a rifling twist that allowed such-chambered rifles to shoot the 100gr (class) JSP's that the old .244 couldn't handle (accuracy-wise).


With those Lee dies, I think I'd check to see if the ".243 Remington" label was a simple typo/error, and exactly what the dies were spec'd to handle.


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