That might depend on whether we were talking about a hunting rifle or a target rifle. My only 6.5 is the ever popular Creedmoor, and it used to digest a lot of 140gn Berger VLD's butsupply got erratic here Down Under so I'm changing to 130gn Nosler RDF's. I'm getting them out at around 2,900fps from my Savage 12 LRP.