CanadianLefty, you and I must be twins separated at birth... I sold my M38 Mauser more than 15 years ago and have been staring at my 6.5x55 dies ever since... For the last two months i have been pondering another Swede, or 260, or 6.5-284, or 6.5 PRC, or 26 Nosler, or 6.5-300 ... and for the last month looking hard at the 264 WinMag and twice had the bid ready to launch on Gunbroker... and didn't do it.
In the end I pulled the trigger on the Weatherby Weathermark in 6.5 RPM. I am looking forward to putting it through its paces.
My diagnosis: you havent yet settled on the cartridge waiting for you... it ain't a 270.
For math, run some numbers with the 127 LRX at 6.5 RPM velocities on Hornady's ballistic calculator, then play around with even slippier bullets. Ok, so the differences are small... we ain't in this for exercise. WE ARE splitting hairs and loving the nuanced gains provided by the 6.5...
