Seriously underrated 6.5x47 Lapua

**Tussock** · 04-03-2019, 11:13 AM

Originally Posted by Puffin

Wingman, please tell me a bit about your reamer: your freebore length and neck diameter (clearance) choice and perhaps your thinking that led to these dimensions? I think I would be right in saying that these are likely to be the two variables with everything else staying much the same at standard CIP - unless you also requested the leade angle be tweaked?

Somehow I have lost my custom reamer for a Sako 75 action. I guess one of my relatives thought it was a drill bit. Keen to see the answer to this.

**madjon_** · 04-03-2019, 11:39 AM

Originally Posted by Tussock

Somehow I have lost my custom reamer for a Sako 75 action. I guess one of my relatives thought it was a drill bit. Keen to see the answer to this.

Was @gimp original 6.5x47L done with this reamer?

**Tussock** · 04-03-2019, 01:35 PM

Originally Posted by madjon_

Was @gimp original 6.5x47L done with this reamer?

I don't recall. Have to ask him. I bought it from pacific tool and gauge. It was not actually expensive. I had it set up so I could seat to the lands in a Sako box magazine from memory. It was a while ago.

**Nick-D** · 04-03-2019, 01:51 PM

6.5x47L aka the 6.5 creed-before

**Mathias** · 04-03-2019, 03:44 PM

@outdoorlad are you running your 6.5x47L on an M mag on that nice Tikka of yours? Any OAL issues if so?

**johnd** · 04-03-2019, 04:34 PM

Originally Posted by Wingman

The only real question here is why would anyone use 2209 in a .308?

Oh please lord dont let them introduce the .308 into 6.5 thread.

I have just come to terms with deep seating 155's into big round baked bean cans. I look at the the long throated 6.5's and think ... nah you cant do that!

**Tussock** · 04-03-2019, 04:51 PM

Originally Posted by Nick-D

6.5x47L aka the 6.5 creed-before

Still waiting for clarification on the barrel length for 6.5Creedmore. Can I get 2800ft/sec comfortably with 140s and a 20" barrel?

**Wingman** · 04-03-2019, 04:59 PM

Originally Posted by Puffin

Wingman, please tell me a bit about your reamer: your freebore length and neck diameter (clearance) choice and perhaps your thinking that led to these dimensions? I think I would be right in saying that these are likely to be the two variables with everything else staying much the same at standard CIP - unless you also requested the leade angle be tweaked?

The rifle is predominantly a hunting rifle so this school of thought was always foremost on the build specs. Tight neck reamers and long freebores with crazy lead angles for secant or hybrid ogive bullets would limit the range of suitable hunting bullets and adds possible mechanical complications in the field which I wanted to avoid.
The reamer was ground to cut a .298" neck, my loaded non neck turned neck measures .290" and the free bore length set up for the 139gr Scenar at .235". This puts that bullet in 100% neck to bearing surface contact with 5 though jump and a 2.73" COAL.
The lead angle is std CIP.
The 130gr TMK is very much the same dimensions as the 139gr scenar with the same boat tail and ogive shape, other than the plastic tip they almost measure identical which has made for easy tuning of that load.
I look forward to testing some other bullets but early signs show its really not that fussy to load for.

**Moa Hunter** · 04-03-2019, 07:17 PM

Originally Posted by Wingman

Yip all of about 100fps more.. but I bet there is no one that could tell the difference in recoil between those two cartridge loads in the same rifle.

The lower the recoil the easier to shoot a really light rifle. I thought that a 260 AI would be where it's at but that thought is clearly wrong. I am now wondering how light I could go with a single shot rifle ??