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Not to worry. My 42.1 grs of Rel 17 gives me 2921 fps and 8 SD. I just checked it this am @ 100 and got this 5-shot group.



I then ranged a deer lung sized rock @ 1035 yds and 8 deg uphil and popped it twice in a row.

Alan

Glad you are enjoying retirement Cannot wait to get my 47 built....stock is ordered. It will have a twin in 260 Rem...save different McSwirly.

Rem 700 LH 21" Rem mag contour lilja 8 twist.129SST's at 2925.
One shot kill at 553 yards last year.
https://www.24hourcampfire.com/ubbth...lled_deer_tag_at_553_yards_w#Post4541340

Jim,

I remember that post; awesome! Can you give us a report on how the bullet worked?

......besides the obvious ?......

Alan

Through and through, ribs in and out. My daughter used the same load in her rifle to get a one shot kill at 333 yards.
We fire 2 shots and killed 2 deer, kinda hard not to like how it worked!

Who says you need a 'Mag a Num' to kill deer? LOL.

Jim, my 2 bbls are both the same contour. Would you do a 21" again if you were building? My IMR4350 260 loads and 6.5x55 loads both clocked 2780 w/very good accuracy, in my 22" Sako and Ruger K1A, so no doubt the 47 will do fine speed wise.

How is the blast in the 21"? Using 40gr of powder, should not be bad I would suppose.

Thanks.

now i gotta try it i have lots of 140VLD's and it is simple enough to get a pound of rl-17.

i tried rl-15 and pressure constantly climbed from getting the barrel dirty. How clean is rl-17 compared to rl-15? I didn't like rl-15 at all.

How dirty? Well, I couldn't tell you what's coming out since I haven't run a patch down my barrel since I finished the breakin last Fall. I use Ultra Bore Coat and thus my barrels are slick as snot. I "ride'em hard and put up wet". Of course living in the dry state of Utah, I can get away with that.

I will say this. When I shot a 576 yd ladder a few months back with the 140 VLD and Hunter, the initial results were VERY promising. I didn't pursue it because the Rel 17's velocities and accuracy were just too good to deviate away from. Look at those top 3 shots; 1.25" of vertical!

Do any of you guys run a 6.5x47 on a factory rem action. I understand that you have to bush the firing pin or you will get pierced primers. Still wondering if I should just run another 260 or try a creedmoor?

Bb

I've 3 on factory Rem 700's. Only one is bushed. It just depends on the factory tolerances.
65BR, nominal muzzle blast. Yes for sure would do the 21" barrel again. The rifle is just heavy enough to have an 'enjoyable' recoil impulse.

Mark Gordon at SAC has a box of parts sitting at his shop I sent him. The action being used is one of the CDNN FN actions, he told me that there is no need to bush that bolt, it's good to go from factory.

I had Dave Kiff from PT&G grind up a reamer for me based off of a dummy round I sent him topped off with a 123gr AMAX. It has .187 freebore cuz I loaded the round REALLY long to use up all the case capacity. The boat tail of the bullet is the only thing below the neck/shoulder junction.

Hopefully this was not a huge mistake and it will work out for me. The 8-10 month wait is killing me.

Jim, thanks sir.

18Echo,

It took Dave four tries to get one of my reamers right. The third one was at least close so I took it and sent it to the gunsmith. The only reason Dave finally did it correctly is the gunsmith was a friend of his who saw the original drawing and told him to do it right. At least two of the gunsmiths in this area, where his shop is, will not order from him.

I certainly hope he does better for you.

I hope so too. I've purchased 3 reamers from him. The 7Mag for 162 amax's works great. The 338-06 SAAMI has a super long amount of freebore, trying to find a load for that one now. And then the 6.5 which is still waiting to be used.

What reamers are guys using mostly now?

echo - Hart did my 338/06 using a throat for 250s, only shot 200 and 225s and a few 215s, but my COL out to 3.335 IIRC was fine for the magazine, and I perhaps had a little more powder capacity fwiw.

I should be happy then.... it only took him three tries on my last one......

Any of you 47 shooters using 123 Amax/Scenar, or 130 Bergers on deer sized game?

Re: Reamer specs - who do you recommend and what spec is GTG and which are those to avoid? Thanks.

I have only purchased one custom reamer and that is one I had Henriksen do for me. He's a one man shop so he isn't the speediest, but when I asked around about having a reamer made his name kept popping up as the best. JGS also has a pretty good rep.

Contact: Hugh Henriksen
Address: 8515 Wagner Creek Rd., Talent, Oregon 97540, USA
Phone: +1-(541)-535-2309

Thanks for the info.

This an excellent thread! This 6.5-47 lapua is very interesting!
Thanks for all the data guys. I believe this is my next build.