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I was reading a thread you posted in where you made the comment that you had a 6.5X55 swede custom made on a long action. My question is..........Did you do this because you have an inside scoop on the next generation of long range bullets? I will explain my line of thought.

In my Tikka T3 6.5X55 swede I currently seat the 147 eld at 3.20 OACL. If a bullet manufacture ever came out with a .800 BC 6.5 bullet I would simply put a custom 7 twist tube on throated appropriately and IMO it would feed, function, and fit almost perfectly probably at 3.30 ish COAL. In most 6.5 creedmoor configurations I believe the current longer bullets have the cartridge about maxed out as far as mag confines or the sake of not robbing case capacity by seating the bullet deep into the case.








Trystan

It's not exactly a "long" action, but a commercial FN Mauser action that was originally a J.C. Higgins .270 Winchester. After shooting out the .270 barrel I had Charlie Sisk fit a 1-8 Lilja barrel in 6.5x55, using a PT&G reamer with a pretty short throat. In fact the bullets in some factory ammo touch the rifling.

If I recall correctly the magazine length is around 3.4 inches, certainly no longer. It easily handles 140 Berger VLD's seated to the rifling, which have the longest ogives of any 6.5 bullet I've used.