Thread: Nice 12Stag at 744y 6.5 - so am I unethical now guys?

Originally Posted by distant stalker

I'm curious about the load details, mainly powder choice if you don't want to share charge weight. Always interesting hearing what is working for others in similar clambering

my Load Data. This is not intended for anyone to load to. As always check you manuals, start low and work up. I’ve had this cal chambered on 4 different actions and pressure was all different. Rifle one - Action 1 Brno VG47… changed to a Carl Gustav 1900 (husky 8000) cause it fed terrible. 2nd rifle started Sako 75, changed the barrel over to a tikka t3 for better stock selection and more cost effective.
My current load is for the Tikka - 28” Truflite 1:7.5 twist. RL26 57.7g OAL 3.260

Originally Posted by Scott Cowan

my Load Data. This is not intended for anyone to load to. As always check you manuals, start low and work up. I’ve had this cal chambered on 4 different actions and pressure was all different. Rifle one - Action 1 Brno VG47… changed to a Carl Gustav 1900 (husky 8000) cause it fed terrible. 2nd rifle started Sako 75, changed the barrel over to a tikka t3 for better stock selection and more cost effective.
My current load is for the Tikka - 28” Truflite 1:7.5 twist. RL26 57.7g OAL 3.260

Interesting that you got a 6.5 06 Ackley working. The long barrel must help. I thought about doing one as it should work well but mostly they dont seem to. Mark and Sam did a very interesting comparison with the 6.5 Saum which has the same case capacity - same barrel length, same powder, charge weight, bullet. The Saum beat out the 06 by something like 200fps with everything the same. Mark was scratching his head and said that a more efficient powder burn could be really the only explanation

Originally Posted by Moa Hunter

Interesting that you got a 6.5 06 Ackley working. The long barrel must help. I thought about doing one as it should work well but mostly they dont seem to. Mark and Sam did a very interesting comparison with the 6.5 Saum which has the same case capacity - same barrel length, same powder, charge weight, bullet. The Saum beat out the 06 by something like 200fps with everything the same. Mark was scratching his head and said that a more efficient powder burn could be really the only explanation

This is the 2nd I’ve had built. Both Truflite, first one 1:8 26” and now the 1:7.5 28” and honesty I should have stopped with the first as I only had the 2nd built to utilise the 156berger eol. Which after importing a bunch proved not to shoot well enough.. likely due to the oal restriction in a tikka mag. So I went back to the 147s. And I’ve watched that Mark n Sam vid, but my issue with that is that different cases prefer different powders, rather than same powder and then make a call, I would have liked them do do ‘best powder’ for each one and then show the speeds. I bought the reamer a few years ago and left it with Truflite, they have done a few now with good results. One of the owners has one for his hunting rifle now. If I was building one again I’d like to build with an after market tikka mag set up to get longer oal