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Nice rifles Dennis and thanks for the history lessen! The Kurz sounds like a great deer round, have you taken many with it?
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I haven't shsot a thing with it yet, except targets. I only bought it a year or so ago. So maybe this year...  . Dennis
"The more you run over a dead cat, the flatter it gets."
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I'm pretty sure I know what would happen if you shot a Sitka with a 120 Hot-Hor at 2700 FPS 
I'm Irish...
Of course I know how to patch drywall
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Dennis, thanks again for the history, I am ignorant on many Euro rounds. By the way, do you form brass or have a source? Nice piece and I wish you success, bet it brings you luck afield! Let us know. Dan, now that is plain wrong! Ha. Good thing my deer did not know how fast the 140 b tip was traveling out of my 7TCU handgun, fireform load around 2,000 mv.......it worked Those magical numbers....2700 will, 2600 won't, yada yada.
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The great thing about the 6.5x54 Kurz is that the case has the same head size as a 7x57/8x57/6.5x57/.30-'06/.308 etc. I got 50 rounds of someone's professional reworking of '06 brass, but I've reformed quite a bit from .243 brass, which I picked up at the gun range. It comes out about 6.5x52, but the neck is so long that it doesn't matter. Shoots good with them, cycles just fine, and is real easy to make.
Having shot several deer aand antelope with a couple of .250-3000's, I'm fairly this one will kill a deer.
Dennis
"The more you run over a dead cat, the flatter it gets."
"If you're asking me something technical, you may be looking for My Other Brother Darrell."
"It ain't foot-pounds that kills stuff -- it's broken body parts."
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The exception to the "not enough difference" would be if you planned to chamber the .338 Fed. in a rifle type that was too short to handle the .338/06. Examples would be the Savage 99 or Remington 742 (longer cartidges don't work so reliably in the Remington semi-autos.....even if the factory did chamber them that way).
Couldn't agree more, but I did just what you recommended with the .358 Win and .35 Whelen. I have the .358 in a Savage 99 and the Whelen in a 03 Sporter. I�ve seen a couple of .338 Fed on AR platforms that looked very interesting. I've even seen one Savage 99 re-barreled to .338 Fed that I would have liked to have owned.
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Thanks Dennis, not a matter of if, but when the Kurz has the opportunity. Love to hear your success.
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