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Pat shot a Shiras moose with his 6.5 Saum... think he even took a grizz... I could be wrong though about the grizz.
Bottom line, it's a BA cartridge that'll take down any North American game animal with ease.
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MP,
If it were me, and I am collecting parts and will have one built here soon, it will be 6.5 4S with Vias break. I have a 7 SAUM sitting in the safe and a #3 Bartlein barrel sitting in the corner of my office. I'll likely go Bansner stock as I have others built using the Bansner and I want similar ergos.
Like you say, I'm doing my best to incorporate all the characteristics. I'm certain that GAP built it the way they did for a reason. <grin> Like you, I have a Bart #3 and M70 stainless action sitting at LRI right now for fluting and chambering in 6.5 4S and it'll be going in a Bansner in a few weeks 
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MP,
If it were me, and I am collecting parts and will have one built here soon, it will be 6.5 4S with Vias break. I have a 7 SAUM sitting in the safe and a #3 Bartlein barrel sitting in the corner of my office. I'll likely go Bansner stock as I have others built using the Bansner and I want similar ergos.
Like you say, I'm doing my best to incorporate all the characteristics. I'm certain that GAP built it the way they did for a reason. <grin> Like you, I have a Bart #3 and M70 stainless action sitting at LRI right now for fluting and chambering in 6.5 4S and it'll be going in a Bansner in a few weeks Surprised! I thought I read a thread over on SH in which Chad said he sold all his tooling for the 6.5 Saum as he said his customers were having nothing but problems with them!
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Nope. Have called and had several conversations with them over there at LRI. I think I read that older thread as well and they've since gone with the GAP reamer and felt really good about doing the work.
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I thought I read a thread over on SH in which Chad said he sold all his tooling for the 6.5 Saum as he said his customers were having nothing but problems with them! Interesting, given the miniscule difference in bullet diameter. The same with the many arguments over .277 vs .284. But, there is a difference.
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Differences in recoil if you aren't running a brake (I won't, on a hunting gun) are substantial between a 7mm 180 and a 6.5 140. Shooting pointed 130s at 3300fps is something I recall scenarshooter Pat doing, and that's tough to compete with.
That being said, I think both cartridges make a lot of sense. The 6.5 SAUM I had was pretty deadly on animals, and I'd like to build another.
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