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Always thought a 6.5-300 Winchester would rule the planet.Good brass easy to find add the BC of the 6.5 bullet. Like a 264 plus Now, that would be a bomb, for sure. I wonder if a barrel would last through load development...?? DF Not with the way I do load development! John
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Always thought a 6.5-300 Winchester would rule the planet.Good brass easy to find add the BC of the 6.5 bullet. Like a 264 plus Now, that would be a bomb, for sure. I wonder if a barrel would last through load development...?? DF Not with the way I do load development! John I think after a couple hundred rounds, the Hawkeye borescope would tell all... DF
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Can't be worst than a 7 Shooting Times DF.Thinkin this barrel burner stuff is moot anyway,as far as hunting rifles are concerned.
My barrel burners are hunters not paper punchers if ya catch my drift..grin
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So much can be done without burning large amounts of powder and barrels...
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As I've previously posted, my 6.5-284 shows early throat erosion thru the Hawkeye after 400 rounds or so down the tube. But, it's still a solid 1/2 MOA performer. As a hunting rifle, it should last a long time, as you pointed out... Some of those rounds were used in load development. Now that I have a high performing load that I plan to stick with, there's no need to keep on blasting away. I have other guns for that. DF
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6.5-06.. better bbl life than the 6.5X284 and the same performance.
I have had/have several of both. The 6.5-06 does everything the fatter more expensive 6.5X284 does ;-)
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Why do you think that happens?
Is it the short neck? .300 WM has a short neck, is a relatively high performance round and doesn't seem to be that bad a throat eroding round.
Curious.
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The one who builds my rifles said that exactly. Longer neck and shoulder geometry play a benificial roll.
My 300 winny's were toast at about 2400 rounds.
Neat thing is the 6.5-06 can run with the winny... ;-)
140 berger or 139 scenar doing 3000 fps... run it on a ballistic calc.
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I chose the 6.5-284, as it was the LR shooter's darling at the time. It may edge the 6.5-06 in precision according to their info.
To get the fatter .284 case to feed, the action will need some tweaking and the follower milled for that round.
With the 6.5-06, just load'em and shoot'em.
Having owned and shot both, do your 6.5-284's group slightly tighter than your 6.5-06's, on the average? Just currious, as for a hunting rifle, a small difference wouldn't matter.
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I've shot (for record) a 4.1" group with the 6.5-284 in 1K BR
My hunting 6.5X284's never could do that.
I've shot 1" groups at 550 yards with my huntnig weight 6.5-06's
I really don't think accuracy goes to one or the other. I feel the accuracy is in fact directly related to this.
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Cocadori,
This is a short post, but says volumes.
I am encouraged by this because my newest wildcat has a .200" neck. It needs only its salt bath nitride finish before it is killing paper and hopefully game next season. I am hoping to match .257 Roy velocity with an ultralight rifle.
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I've shot (for record) a 4.1" group with the 6.5-284 in 1K BR
My hunting 6.5X284's never could do that.
I've shot 1" groups at 550 yards with my huntnig weight 6.5-06's
I really don't think accuracy goes to one or the other. I feel the accuracy is in fact directly related to this.
The smith The barrel The hand load The nut behind the wheel
Thanks, that's the info I was looking for. DF
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