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

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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

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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

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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

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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

My other consideration was I wanted sort of a switch barrel set up. Just running one bolt and a bunch of barreled action and a couple of good stocks. So I needed the 308 size bolt face and the best speed I could get from a 6.5 non magnum. So now we can run our 22/250ai and 6.5/06ai and the soon to be 6mm creedmoor without having to have as much cash tied up. It would have been more useful if I had started with that plan in mind tho, cause I now have 2rifles that aren’t tikka and I really like them and can’t see me selling either.

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Originally Posted by Scott Cowan

My other consideration was I wanted sort of a switch barrel set up. Just running one bolt and a bunch of barreled action and a couple of good stocks. So I needed the 308 size bolt face and the best speed I could get from a 6.5 non magnum. So now we can run our 22/250ai and 6.5/06ai and the soon to be 6mm creedmoor without having to have as much cash tied up. It would have been more useful if I had started with that plan in mind tho, cause I now have 2rifles that aren’t tikka and I really like them and can’t see me selling either.

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Fair call. I actually got an action and got all excited then deflated by the numbers i was seeing. Why the 280 AI works so well and 6.5 not really, flummoxed me

Good shooting. Mates son used my 260 to drop a bull tahr at 620 yards. 147 eldm. So reckon your shooter has plenty of power for job at hand. Proven!

What scope are you using Scott?

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Originally Posted by Blackmac

What scope are you using Scott?

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An older vx6 3-18x44 plenty of scope for that range. I used to have the luxury of a Nightforce 5.5-25 but tho it was a great long range scope it was the worst ever in the bush and so heavy. And then four fantastic kids growing fast I sold the nightforce to pay the bills. The 6x6 is light and that suits my needs. I build my stock and thats 750g from memory, nice n comfort to shoot, I dropped it back in a standard tikka stock a while back while I was repairing a sling stud, I didn’t shoot nearly as well.

Thanks Scott ��