Thread: 6.5x55 barrel length

Everyone here has good points. @dogmatix yeah I know I should have kept that one, would have looked great short and can'd - I am really thinking I will lob her to twenty inches which leaves room in the gun cab for a bush pig like that Marlin 45-70 Guide Gun. But yes if I can get 2500 @ 18.5 w/ 140's I will be over the moon
@gimp cheers for your help, I love me short guns and understand that a man with one gun will shoot better with it than someone with 100 guns.

Originally Posted by Timmay

Everyone here has good points. @dogmatix yeah I know I should have kept that one, would have looked great short and can'd - I am really thinking I will lob her to twenty inches which leaves room in the gun cab for a bush pig like that Marlin 45-70 Guide Gun. But yes if I can get 2500 @ 18.5 w/ 140's I will be over the moon
@gimp cheers for your help, I love me short guns and understand that a man with one gun will shoot better with it than someone with 100 guns.

Don't set your sights so low! If I got 2500 and that was it, I'd cry, 2209 isn't the only powder, experiment! am expecting around 2600 with the 160 Hornady round noses I'm about to play with.

Mine has a 16" bbl and the goats and deer are still just as dead as the 22" bbl shot, just a lot handier to carry now!

Sigh....people still using 140s in rifles that love 120s and 130s...

Originally Posted by Wirehunt

Sigh....people still using 140s in rifles that love 120s and 130s...

Sigh.... even worse when they use a mauser to do it ........

Originally Posted by Wirehunt

Sigh....people still using 140s in rifles that love 120s and 130s...

Nothing I have hit in the correct place with a 6.5mm 140gr Amax has taken a single step, and 140gr long range ballistics are superior, so a 120/130 would have to skin and carry it out for me to be convinced to change

Originally Posted by gimp

Nothing I have hit in the correct place with a 6.5mm 140gr Amax has taken a single step, and 140gr long range ballistics are superior, so a 120/130 would have to skin and carry it out for me to be convinced to change

And pack it into plastic bags as well, in order to convince me.

Originally Posted by gimp

Nothing I have hit in the correct place with a 6.5mm 140gr Amax has taken a single step, and 140gr long range ballistics are superior, so a 120/130 would have to skin and carry it out for me to be convinced to change

So do they work just as well at close range on Reds etc
Did you use them on the samber you shot??
Getting a .260 barrelled at the moment so interested to know how they go.

Originally Posted by 25/08IMP

So do they work just as well at close range on Reds etc
Did you use them on the samber you shot??
Getting a .260 barrelled at the moment so interested to know how they go.

yeah they seem to

Yes on that sambar, high shoulder and it dropped on the spot, was still kicking so I shot it again in the head but that wasn't really necessary

Originally Posted by gimp

yeah they seem to

Yes on that sambar, high shoulder and it dropped on the spot, was still kicking so I shot it again in the head but that wasn't really necessary

I can back this up, I actually checked my load data, my loads have been doing 2720 fps in their current state 140gn Amax
I've shot 10+ deer, reds, fallow & sika they have all dropped on the spot. The longest shot was 250m though - I aim for the front shoulder/heart

why use a can ? it's only a 6.5 swede

Originally Posted by von tempsky fan

why use a can ? it's only a 6.5 swede

'cos he's got ears.

Originally Posted by Tahr

'cos he's got ears.

Oh didnt know you had to suppress everything, hows your suppressor going on your shotgun?

Originally Posted by von tempsky fan

why use a can ? it's only a 6.5 swede

What kind of question is that?

Originally Posted by Toby

What kind of question is that?

What part didn't you understand??