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Thanks for sharing Trystan. Good, useful info. Duane
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That 140 Hornady should be real good at 2800. Sounds like a great shooting load.
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That 140 Hornady should be real good at 2800. Sounds like a great shooting load. Almost as good as a 140 accubond at 2900 😁 Thanks beretzs and best of luck to hunting what's left of this year Trystan
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Thank you
I hope to use the Swede a little this fall. Awesome little round for the deer woods.
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Thanks for sharing Trystan. Good, useful info. Duane This. Thank you, Trystan.
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An update as promised.
Shooting the Winchester 70 classic featherweight today.
Lapua brass, Federal 210 match primers, and reloader 26 under the 140 grain partition.
3 shot groups, velocity recorded is the average for the three shots according to my lab radar.
50.0: 2808 fps 50.5: 2849 fps 51.0: 2877 fps
Based on the velocity of the 51.0 load I did not shoot the 51.5 or the 52.0 loads I had with me.
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I think you’ve got a winner. That’s a killer load in the Swede.
How was the accuracy?
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An update as promised.
Shooting the Winchester 70 classic featherweight today.
Lapua brass, Federal 210 match primers, and reloader 26 under the 140 grain partition.
3 shot groups, velocity recorded is the average for the three shots according to my lab radar.
50.0: 2808 fps 50.5: 2849 fps 51.0: 2877 fps
Based on the velocity of the 51.0 load I did not shoot the 51.5 or the 52.0 loads I had with me.
Those are good numbers. Much better than what I saw out of my M70 FWT with 140 NPs with RL 22. Thanks for sharing.
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The 50.0 load was sub moa.
If it repeats, I will call it good.
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An update as promised.
Shooting the Winchester 70 classic featherweight today.
Lapua brass, Federal 210 match primers, and reloader 26 under the 140 grain partition.
3 shot groups, velocity recorded is the average for the three shots according to my lab radar.
50.0: 2808 fps 50.5: 2849 fps 51.0: 2877 fps
Based on the velocity of the 51.0 load I did not shoot the 51.5 or the 52.0 loads I had with me.
Nice you got the opportunity to go shooting. Any day out shooting is a good day 😁 Thanks for sharing and to others who shared as well Trystan
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50.0: 2808 fps 50.5: 2849 fps 51.0: 2877 fps
Based on the velocity of the 51.0 load I did not shoot the 51.5 or the 52.0 loads I had with me.
I think you are there and your rifle shoots similar to mine. I could go higher with only slightly flattened primers but no need to push it too hard. I am staying at this level and 51.5 for the 129-130s.
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I am experimenting with a promising bullet from BIB. It is a 135 grain hollow point boat tail with a G1 BC of 650. I didn't realize Randy was making a 6.5 bullet, although his site says .625-.630 BC on that bullet. Any current feed back on accuracy or BC's at distance yet? I'll have to call him when I have 3 hours to blow......
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Tag so I can find it again
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We have been shooting the #26 in the 6.5x47, 6.5 Creed, and the 6.5x55, the powder gives lower pressures with speed, seems to have a very gentle pressure curve with no spikes. 26 seems to like specific primers, we use the fed 215 in the 6.5x55 and the 6.5x55.
Here is the load in a 24", 8T brux with .169 freebore on the reamer, Remington 700 long action. Tikka's have a lot of freebore, more than .169, so Tikka loads as you have seen will take a tad bit more powder.
6.5x55 with .169 FB, lapua brass Fed 215 130g nosler accubond, 127g Barnes long range 51.5g is a safe working max load for this particular barrel and chamber Accubond seated .005 off the lands, Barnes is jumping .050 3150 fps, very low SD 1/2"-3/4" with the Accubond and about 1/3" groups with the Barnes
Repeatable bug hole accuracy at 48.5g with both bullets at 2850 fps, primer edges are very round with out the slightest hint of pressure issues, we neck sized the cases at this point
143-147g ELD 2850 is the accuracy node that shoots 3/8" groups, 2900 is 3/4", safe working load
These loads are accurate and safe in this one particular barrel, work up to these in your barrel.
If you get on the 26 bandwagon, play with primer choices, you will see huge differences. The 6.5x47's we played with, we formed cases out of Lapua 22/250 cases so we could use hotter primers which helped a lot in group size.
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Tag, some great practical information here for those of us that love the 6.5x55.
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