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Big Stick got some Badlands Super Bulldozers ?
fkn awesome mang, now dump that Jabby Steve wHorenady garbage STAT
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Yeh, I put him onto them. Don't know if he's loaded 'em yet, but he's got 'em.
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Never known a 'bad' 6.5 - but having built a 6.5 - 308 the year before Rem launched their version of the 'A-Square' - yeah, IDK how Rem got it thru SAAMI before AS but......needless to say, it never matched some Swedes. I did have a few Full custom 260s that did very well with Lapua brass that was not around when I had my first 6.5-308 done.
But since then I have leaned to the Creed and x47 personally. They both seem to find accuracy easier.
Nothing wrong with any when you can plug your vitals with a decent 6.5 regardless of headstamp.
BS - is that a JOC AI above?
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Build a 30 T/C, and twist how you like. A 13 or 14 twist would handle 125's up to 150's. Tons of Creedmoor brass out there.
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The .308 just flat works for how I hunt as well. If I were going to change, it would be a 300 RSAUM.
"I never thought I'd live to see the day that a U.S. president would raise an army to invade his own country." Robert E. Lee
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It's hard to beat the 308 for versatility and ammo availability, that's the route I went. If not the 308, the 6mm CM is solid and ammo is readily available. If you handload I guess it doesn't really matter.
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Do handload and have one 308/7.62 in an Enfield. The easiest way to help a .308 is to extend the chamber and throat to handle 30-06 SPRG cartridges. The 308 does NOT handle heavy bullets fpr elk, bear or moose. In AK, that gets to be important. The 6 mm or 6,5 has not the history or performance of the 270 WCF or the 7mm Mauser. Think I will keep my pre-64 M70s in those calibers and buy more powder and bullets.
"The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena-not the critic"-T. Roosevelt There are no atheists in fox holes or in the open doors of a para's aircraft.....
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I just picked up my 30-6.5wby rpm2 days ago. It was a 26in bull-barreled.308 on a 700action. I’m pushing 200eldxs 2970fps with 66gr of Staball 6.5. 180gr Sierra gamekings are getting 3150 with 68gr of h4350.
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Neither the 200gr eldx or 180gr sierras would group with the 12 twist barrel. I discovered flatbase 180s(partitions, interlocks,hotcors) group well. I’m pushing partitions 3113fps with 73gr of h4831
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I built five 6.5x08 Remington 700s and two AR-10 Armalite rifles in 6.5x08. I would have traded a left important part for that AR-10 in Vietnam VS my M-14 with its 3x9 Redfield scope. I am somewhat partial to the 6.5x08 with a 120 SMK, Rem 243 brass prepped then fire formed and selected by case capacity and H-414 powder and 210m primers. The 6.5x08 will shoot out spent shotgun shell primers at 100. Try it sometime.
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