Originally Posted by 260Remguy
Originally Posted by tikkanut
Originally Posted by 260Remguy
Originally Posted by tikkanut

just buy a 6.5x55

the original 6.5mm.......

will be here long after the CM dies off.......

https://www.ballisticstudies.com/Knowledgebase/6.5x55.html


Aren't there 6.5mm military cartridges older than the 6.5x55?
......?



not sure...the Swede I think is the most popular


I'd agree that the 6.5x55 made the transition from military to sporting cartridge more successfully than any of the others in the group of six 6.5mm bore military cartridges that were introduced between 1891 and 1904.

6.5x50 Japanese 1897
6.5x52 Italian 1891
6.5x53R Dutch & Romanian 1893
6.5x54 Greek 1903
6.5x55 Norwegian & Swedish 1894
6.5x58 Portuguese 1904

Old guys like me can remember when you could mail order firearms and ammo from outfits like Klein's. Lots of surplus military firearms, some good buys and some not so good.

Yep, those were the days.

Wish I had a pile of those $40 Lugers we saw, plus all those cheap military rifles stacked in a barrel.

Knowing what I know now, would like to revisit those sources.

DF