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Today I fired several rounds with the 6.5SLR. The barrel is 26" long and has an 8" twist. It has about the same capacity of a .264 Win Mag. I started with 62.0 grains of WW2 H4831 and stopped at 67.5 grains. All loads worked through the small Weatherby Mark V action easily. I stopped at 67.5 grains because 67.0 and 67.5 gave almost the same reading. The velocities follow.
62.0 -----
62.5 - 3,196
63.0 - 3,227
63.5 - 3,257
64.0 - 3,267
64.5 - 3,282
65.0 - 3,278
65.5 - 3,313
66.0 - 3,333
66.5 - 3,359
67.0 - 3,403
67.5 - 3,401


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How is your 6.5 SLR different than the Super LR (that people often call the SLR)? Based on velocities and your capacities they are most certainly not the same thing. I almost bought a Super LR/S reamer a month or so back but opted for the 6.5 Creed so that if I needed it I could buy ammo (I have shown up for a match where my rifle and ammo didn't arrive together).

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KineticPerformance,

You would never guess what the "SLR" stands for in .6.5SLR. It stands for "Sue Loves Rich and doesn't hassle him about his wildcats". Last year it was a .257SLR on a .270 Win case, but I wanted a little higher BC bullet. The 6.5 case starts as a 9.3X64 Brenneke brass. A fired SLR case holds 84 grains of water to the top of the neck. Like the 6.5 Super LR this one also has a longer neck than what is presently popular. The neck flows into Weatherby radii because I like that look.

The rifle has a 26" Pac-Nor barrel that matches the Weatherby 24" contour ending in a big muzzle brake. With a Lone Wolf stock and a Swarovski z5 5-25X52 in Burris Signature rings it weighs exactly seven pounds. The Timney trigger is set a 24 ounces.


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