Thread: 6.5 06

My past experiences with 3 iterations of 6.5-06 have been uniformly underwhelming. Although all three were Mauser 98 based to be fair - getting a 98 to shoot is never a sure thing unless your name is @nor-west.

The first one didn't deliver anything like decent velocities and was only fair accuracy wise. The second was a bit shot out to be fair but didn't shoot.

Finally I tried a brand new cut rifled Kreiger barrel on my last one and it damm well refused to shoot despite a lot of pissing about - but the barrel was proven was fine when I much later reused it in a 6.5 Crudmoor build.

Were it my $$ (and an action as nice as a MkV) I'd be looking at something more modern . . . .