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Thread: Seriously underrated 6.5x47 Lapua

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mathias View Post
    @outdoorlad are you running your 6.5x47L on an M mag on that nice Tikka of yours? Any OAL issues if so?
    @Mathias yes a M magazine, no problems, although I haven’t tried the 143/7 ELD’s in it.
    The 140amax was fine.
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    I just found an old thread from 2012 which had 5x groups from someone 6.5x47L. Compared to my old one, or the one in this thread, it shot like a bag of arse. No better than a good factory rifle. The groups mine shot would fit between the holes in the paper from his. This may explain why he sees them as a waste of time.

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    Spent this evening loading up some test rounds finally. Nothing to scientific, just a full case of RL16 which is 41.5gr to the bottom of the neck. A small crunch on the longer 143gr eldx but no real compression or seating rebound. No pressure even on the heavier bullets with this full case charge so its the case volume that restricts any further velocity with RL16 however it still leaves the max charge of 42gr of 2209 velocity in its dust.
    This test is more a max speed test on each brand and weight and will test the extreme spreads. I'll run them over the chrono and put them on paper in the next couple of days.
    The projectiles to test are:

    130gr Hornady ELDM
    136gr Lapua Scenar L
    130gr Sierra Tipped match king
    139gr Lapua Scenar
    143gr Hornady ELDX
    130gr Berger VLD Hunter
    123gr Lapua Scenar
    123gr Hornady A-Max

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    Nice one Wingman - show us what the RL16 can do! Any chance of also reporting the CoL with each please so we have all the necessaries for QuickLOAD comparisons?

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    Sure I will list this for you here too. Thanks for the email too, Ive been meaning to return one but work has been crazy this week.
    Forgot to mention, the 123gr lapua and A-max's are loaded with 39.8gr of 2208 (varget) not RL16. This is the max charge in my rifle for the 123gr bullets.

    I have already run tests with RL16 behind the 123gr bullets and the average velocity from 5 shots with 41.5gr (same load as above-full case) was 2954fps for the A-max and 2948fps with the Scenars. 40gr of 2208 gives approx 3030fps but was showing light pressure.

    I have also tested BM 8208 with the 123gr bullets, my max load of 36.5gr gives me an av of 2910fps with Scenars and 2938fps wit Amax's.
    36.0gr of BM 8208 behind the 130gr TMK gave 2818fps.

    Will be shot from my 24" long Trueflite 1-8" twist. All primed with CCI BR-4s and neck sized twice fired brass.
    All seated approx 10 thou off lands.
    COAL's as follows:

    130gr Hornady ELDM 2.755"
    136gr Lapua Scenar L 2.740"
    130gr Sierra TMK 2.775"
    139gr Lapua Scenar 2.685"
    143gr Hornady ELDX 2.780"
    130gr Berger VLD Hunter 2.690"
    123gr Lapua Scenar 2.720"
    123gr Hornady A-Max 2.725"
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    Results; shot prone off front and rear sand bags without any breaks. Barrel got hot but not so hot you couldn't hold your hand on it. Shot in the order of this list:

    Cold bore but not cleaned.

    123gr Hornady A-Max

    Velocities FPS: 2988, 2996, 3007, 3012, 2997 ES: 24 fps






    130gr Sierra TMK

    Velocities FPS: 2909, 2899, 2899, 2898, 2896 ES: 13 fps (group was .447")





    130gr Hornady ELDM

    Velocities FPS: 2893, 2888, 2890, 2891, 2892 ES: 5 fps






    139gr Lapua Scenar

    Velocities FPS: 2858, 2861, 2850, 2852, 2853 ES: 11 fps





    136gr Lapua Scenar L

    Velocities FPS: 2904, 2898, 2891, 2898, 2899 ES: 13 fps




    143gr Hornady ELDX

    Velocities FPS: 2855, 2878, 2835, 2832, 2848 ES: 76 fps

    Remember this load was lightly compressed due to the longer bullet, this is typical of a compressed load of RL16, the ES jumps and the groups open up. This barrel has shot half inch groups with the ELDX with 39.5gr of RL16 at 2780fps.




    130gr Berger VLD Hunter

    Velocities FPS: 2904, 2909, 2904, 2900, 2906 ES: 9fps





    123gr Lapua Scenar

    Velocities FPS: 3001, 3008, 2993, 3002, 3003 ES: 15 fps





    So the groups were nothing fantastic but that was expected with a full case, the RL16 seems too like a bit of room to move. the TMKs and VLDs both did ok and this has in fact been my hunting load. Id be willing to bet most groups could shrink up to half that with .5gr to 1gr less powder. It has not been a fussy barrel which give plenty of options but I am seeing a preferred weight of 130gr with the RL16 with 40.5gr to 41.5gr performing really well.
    I should probably get a bunch of other 140gr bullets to test too, they seem to sit best around the 2800-2850fps mark in this barrel.
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    The 130 gr Berger vld hunter and target and the 130 gr hornady are what shoot best in my 1 in 8.5" 6.5 creedmoor. But I reload with 2209. I ll ave to try the Reloader 16 at some point.

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    @Friwi I have a couple of Creedmoor barrels to drop off for fluting when finish machining them so will drop in some RL16 for you to try.

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    Sweet.Thanks.

 

 

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