Been thinking about maybe building a 6.5 x 47 Lapua on a Rem Model 7 with a 21" barrel. Looking to have a very light weight and handy mountain gun for mule deer. Is a 21" tube going to be too short for that cartridge? Will I have a lot of muzzle blast and a significant drop off in velocity with such a short barrel? I know very little about the cartridge. Guys seem to love it for a long-range gun. Just wondering about it in a short barreled rifle.

TIA,

Jordan

21" is plenty for the 6.5x47L. My own is 22" but 21" wouldn't bother me a bit. It's a very efficient little case.

I push 140s out of an 18" bbl around 2700 FPS.

I have a 22" model 7 in 6.5 Creedmoor and running 130's at 2800ish. The two cartridges are very similar so I think it would be a great hunting rifle.

Dang! Was only getting 2750 with 140's out of 6.5/284 with 23.5" barrel

22" here. a M7 with 20" barrel would be a sweet rig.

ML

I'd be talking with my smith about how and where I want the rifle to balance....

That's way more important than some arbitrary number of barrel inches.

My own .260 has a 24 inch tube and it's perfect for this platform, a Browning low wall.

I like my rifles to balance right on or ahead of the front action screw - maybe just a hair muzzle heavy....

Back in 2008 I built a Ruger No.1 RSI chambered in 6.5x47 Lapua.

It is an awesome stalking rifle with the typical Ruger RSI 20in barrel and custom wood it points like a shotgun and is accurate enough to do the job every time.

I am loading 120gn Sierra ProHunter bullets over 38gn of Varget for a year-round capable 2800fps (a little higher in summer).

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