Thread: 6.5x55 bullet options

Originally Posted by Neckshot

If targex made a 6.5 projectile you would be considering them aswell,he's working on them I hope.Dont get caught up in speed for a hunting projectile either as they don't have to be fast just accurate.All the fun is in finding animals to test your projectiles on and measure the diffrences and judge yourself.

Here what your saying there mate but keep in mind the projectiles that Cam and I where talking about work a lot better at speed
You cant drive them as fast, hence you enjoy the amax.
Not trying to turn this into a whose got the fastest pill thread
Just saying more speed does help some pills.

I haven't struck a bad bullet in my 6.5x55. 140 grn SST, AMax and Sierra have all worked well. I prefer the SST to the AMax.

Projectiles are just a lump of lead and copper striking an animal with thousands of variables at play, so performance can be a bit unpredictable. They all have fails, but I expect that it is seldom the bullet design at fault. We worry too much.

Every animal I've found (50m to 250) seems to disagree with a 140 Amax @ ~2730fps.

Pretty sure you missed the point.... the amax works well in the standard 6.5x55 because you are under 2800 fps... using a cal that spits them out a bit faster and you might want something a little more stoutly constructed for close up work..

There is one very important point that Hunt4life alluded to that everyone is missing.

Every pumpkin should be shot on sight.

They are terrible things.

Originally Posted by Tahr

There is one very important point that Hunt4life alluded to that everyone is missing.

Every pumpkin should be shot on sight.

They are terrible things.

There piss easy to stalk up on to!. if one snaps you out stalking it then hang up ya hunting boots boys

Originally Posted by Neckshot

There piss easy to stalk up on to!. if one snaps you out stalking it then hang up ya hunting boots boys

F$%k! Anyone want some cheap boots?

140 berger vld here. Another family member swears by highland factory 139gr and he shoots a lot of deer

120 gr Sierra prohunter, 129 gr Hornady interloct or 127 gr Barnes LRX. All are equally effective and you can rely on them all up close or out far.

Originally Posted by 260hunter

120 gr Sierra prohunter, 129 gr Hornady interloct or 127 gr Barnes LRX. All are equally effective and you can rely on them all up close or out far.

What speed are you driving the LRX's? And how far out are you getting kills?

Originally Posted by Speill

What speed are you driving the LRX's? And how far out are you getting kills?

I am about to put the LRX over the chrony in the next week so will put the results up. I suspect they will be 2850 -2900 fps. The last tahr shot with this bullet would have been just on 500 I reckon. The guy that took the shot reckons he aimed about a foot above its head as it climbed up the bluff.

It impacted about midway down the back and exited just behind the front leg low on the chest. The destruction inside was quite surprising as half the liver was gone and the lungs were just soup. The beastie just took a step out into space and slid all the way down to within a hundred metres of us. It was all rather spectacular. A bloody good shot that wasn't a fluke as he had dropped another a couple of second earlier at the same sort of range.

I reckon the bullet would be doing about 1900 fps when it impacted so all round great performance which is what you would expect at about $1.50 each.

Originally Posted by 260hunter

I am about to put the LRX over the chrony in the next week so will put the results up. I suspect they will be 2850 -2900 fps. The last tahr shot with this bullet would have been just on 500 I reckon. The guy that took the shot reckons he aimed about a foot above its head as it climbed up the bluff.

It impacted about midway down the back and exited just behind the front leg low on the chest. The destruction inside was quite surprising as half the liver was gone and the lungs were just soup. The beastie just took a step out into space and slid all the way down to within a hundred metres of us. It was all rather spectacular. A bloody good shot that wasn't a fluke as he had dropped another a couple of second earlier at the same sort of range.

I reckon the bullet would be doing about 1900 fps when it impacted so all round great performance which is what you would expect at about $1.50 each.

I cronied the load at 2698 which was a bit slower than I thought so maybe I will have to jazz it up a bit. Will try to get 2800 out of it. That shouldn't be too hard I hope.

I swear by the 120gr BT doing around 2950-3000. Shit doesn't move after it's hit, and shot placement within reason isn't critical.

This year I lost a deer, did a dumb thing and changed bullets to the barnes. Fucking idiot. (me that is) why fuck with what hasn't failed before? To much reading BS on forums.....

Originally Posted by Wirehunt

I swear by the 120gr BT doing around 2950-3000. Shit doesn't move after it's hit, and shot placement within reason isn't critical.

This year I lost a deer, did a dumb thing and changed bullets to the barnes. Fucking idiot. (me that is) why fuck with what hasn't failed before? To much reading BS on forums.....

Do they expand fast did you notice? On this baby goat I shot it had a pretty big exit would it was only about 5cm wide seems like the open fast hitting bone. Nut they were mean killers

Originally Posted by Wirehunt

I swear by the 120gr BT doing around 2950-3000. Shit doesn't move after it's hit, and shot placement within reason isn't critical.

This year I lost a deer, did a dumb thing and changed bullets to the barnes. Fucking idiot. (me that is) why fuck with what hasn't failed before? To much reading BS on forums.....

Exactly

I recall now that I used the 6.5 120 BT for a while. They were fine.

For no particular reason, here's a victim. 21 years ago. The BT has been around for a while. So have I.

The rifle was a worn out brno 270 re-barreled to 6.5x55. I remember this shot as being about 300 yards, and the bullet went right through it. In the Ruahines up behind Rangi. Carted the thing out for the trade. That's what I was doing at that time of my life. I sure as hell wasn't at home fretting about bullet performance