Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Custom Rifles & Wildcats 6.5X47 Lapua and 140 berger doing 2900 fps???

Cliff,

How's this?





I'm up to it! I love to work up loads during our winter months. Teens and 20's keeps the barrel nice and cool; no waiting for barrel to cool.

Cocadori,

Chris Matthews of Longshot Rifles but sadly, he just filed Ch 7.

Dober,

NF 2.5-10x32mm with NP-R1 reticle.

For the record, before his lathe went the by and by, Chris just took 1-2" of the barrel shank and trimmed the action of metal to bring the rifle under 8 lbs, if possible. Re-Cerakote then ship to me this week. Too bad as I have a late season Ute Tribe cow elk hunt and am leaving in about 3 hours. The tribe says with zero snow the elk are extremely spooky and a LR shot may be in order. So, I'm bring my BIG Surgeon with the 130 VLD @ 2850. Total confidence as I won the Utah State Sniper Shoot with this rifle/load in Sept. I'm hoping to drop my cow with my custom Pre 64 M70 in 257 Rob/115 BT but if I can't get close enough, the Surgeon is getting used.