Dirtfarner,
Gee, my feelings are hurt! I mention the same thing as Elkhunter in a reply to you 20 minutes earlier, and you don't thank me.
Will mention that E.R. Shaw built me a 6.5-06 when they first started making rifles, I believe in 2008. They didn't do 1-8 twist 6.5 barrels back then, so it had a 1-9. They also build a 6.5/.284 for a friend of mine, identical except for the chambering. Neither rifle had any trouble with Berger 140-grain VLD's, which isn't too surprising since I live in Montana and my friend in South Dakota. In fact mine would shoot 3-inch groups at 600 yards with them. (Nowadays, of course, Shaw does make 1-8 6.5 barrels.) Probably wouldn't do quite as well in central Louisiana, however....
