I'd have to vote 6.5-284 and on a LA. This one is a blueprinted pre-64 M-70 with Bordens bumps, 26" Krieger in a laminated Boyd stock, pillared, glassed, free floated and torqued. It has a Jewell trigger. It's a half MOA rifle with 140 VLD's at 3K with low SD's. 48.8 gr. RL-17 is the fastest accurate load I've tried. Scope is a Z5 3.5-18x44 BT with Outdoorsmans turret, set up for this load.

An action needs to be tweaked for the fatter round to feed slick. It would probably be less trouble to do the 6.5-06 and I don't think the performnace, given the same quality of components, would be different. I know the theoretical differences, but don't think you'll see much of that, chasing game.

IIRC, with JB's pair of similar rifles, a 6.5-284 and a 6.5-06, the '06 version actually shot slightly better.

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