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Originally Posted by BurninDupont
Alf, could you please tell me how far into the lands (or out) your load is, and where you start load development at in relation to the lands?

Generally I always start .015"-.020" in the lands, leaving only one direction to go testing seating depths. I don't care if it fits in the magazine or not, I'm after best accuracy first.

130 Berger VLD seated about this much in the lands at 2.735" to start load work:

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Filled up 24 milk jugs with water & 4-5 drops of food coloring:

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Spread 'em out up the hill towards the lone tree, from 550 to 1020:

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The players, left to right, 22-204, 6 Dasher, and the new 6.5x47 Lapua:

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No survivors:

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Carnage:

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Glad to see you picked up your trash. laugh


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Looks like fun & nice build...

Likely a stupid question with the fresh 6.5 build but...
More/easier hits with the dasher or the x47?

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Originally Posted by coleridge
Likely a stupid question with the fresh 6.5 build but...
More/easier hits with the dasher or the x47?

Real world....not a lot of difference, of course accuracy plays a role as well.

From a pure numbers perspective, the 47 wins.

My Dasher load is on the soft side for the heat of SD summers, 2950 with 105 Amaxes & it's .500 BC.

The 47 is a hair over 3000 with .552 Bergers, at the expense of a little more recoil.

I could likely shoot pointed Hybrids at 3000+ in the Dasher, which would make it basically a tie with the 47.

The 22-204 is no slouch either with .480 pointed 80's at 3025.

They're all fun......

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Great thread (as always). Thanks for sharing Aalf!


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Originally Posted by Akbob5
Great thread (as always). Thanks for sharing Aalf!

Much abliged....my pleasure....

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Managed to find a couple three more jugs, so I got them filled up, drove out to the favorite spot again, and spread them out up the hill from 625 to 1350 yards. I moved my shooting spot back through the gate up into the farmer's field a ways, giving me another 150 yards to play with from the time before:

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Today's players......

22-204 - 6 Dasher - 6x47 Lapua - 6.5x47 Lapua


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Shot of the day was a 2nd round hit at 1350 with the new 6.5X47 lapua:

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How well does the 22-204 hold up at longer ranges?

It seems like if it is quite capable of hitting, then it would have the least recoil by quite a bit. That would make it more fun. How does it compare to the Dasher recoil-wise?

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An observation and a comment.

1. AALF drinks a lot of milk, or juice, or WETF.

2. Y'all better hope AALF never decides to get into the prostitution bidness and become a pimp, cause all his girls will be hot, real lookers, and all you boys will be wanting to spend some time with them. grin

PS. I take the cows were not bugging you?


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Originally Posted by 338Rem
An observation and a comment.
1. AALF drinks a lot of milk, or juice, or WETF.
2. Y'all better hope AALF never decides to get into the prostitution bidness and become a pimp, cause all his girls will be hot, real lookers, and all you boys will be wanting to spend some time with them. grin
PS. I take the cows were not bugging you?

1) Was beginning to look like a recycling center around here.

2) Hoes for bros man.

3) Luckily Farmer Brown hasn't moved them into the pasture .....yet.

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Originally Posted by DakotaDeer
How well does the 22-204 hold up at longer ranges?

It seems like if it is quite capable of hitting, then it would have the least recoil by quite a bit. That would make it more fun. How does it compare to the Dasher recoil-wise?

It holds up pretty well, but spotting impacts way out there can be problematic some times. It certainly is capable of hitting. Oddly, one jug at 1250 or 1300 had a hole dead center but only a couple inches of water leaked out. Perfect hole in and out. The pasture is growing up fast now, as I probably missed spotting a third of the impacts beyond 1K, plus the hill leveling out on top doesn't help either.

Recoil is noticeably lighter, even with a 3 pound lighter gun. This one shoots 80 grain pointed VLD's at 3115. I've gone beyond 1400, but set the targets in the fields before planting, or after harvest so you can see the impacts in the dirt. It is fun. I built this one strictly as a LR plinker, and it handles the job nicely.

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What bc are you figuring with the pointed 80 VLD's?


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Originally Posted by Higbean
What bc are you figuring with the pointed 80 VLD's?

I'm using .480 for BC.

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How fast are you pushing them?


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Originally Posted by Higbean
How fast are you pushing them?

This gun shoots them at 3115 fps....

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Nice thread. Down to one six point five. It's a 47. Having gone thru a few Swedes, 6.5-308, 260's, and Creedmoor - I am not left wanting.

Yet another nice build Aalf. May have missed it. Barrel length?

Enjoy.

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Love how that 6x47 looks Al. Nice shooting as per usual... I am enjoying my 6.5x47 quite a bit too.

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6.5x47s are easy peasy. Kinda like a .308... but with better ballistics and less recoil and less powder... oh, never mind. The only way it's like a .308 is that both are VERY easy to find accurate loads for.

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