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I’d try the spring Gunner. It won’t cost you anything and if you still hate it a timney is only a call away.

Thank you Sir, ANYTHING will be better than what I was trying to massage this morning!

They can be stiff in my opinion. Sometimes the spring helps, when it doesn’t, Timney is a good way to roll.

I just got some of the Elay springs, ordered last week for my T1Xs and a spare for a T3X.
They do lighten up the trigger pull nicely.

10-4 Big B, I appreciate it.

Kimber7man, Thank You too.

Well holy damn what a fun morning at the bench!!!!!, the little Swede put 5 of the 147gr ELD's into a ragged hole at 100 yards, had a set of calipers this time, but didn't bother to measure, was shooting dew North into an 8mph wind out of the North.

53.5gr H-1000 sent them out at 2962 fps.
147 ELD
BR-2
COL 3.140" light kiss
Vel 2962 fps
11 fps E.S. for three rounds through chrono
Casehead .478"

Man this is a blast, the little Swede is starting to rare up and bark like a big dog! , the only thing different I did versus the 150gr SMK was dry fire that rifle about 100 times last night to get a feel for the heavy trigger, with little Wife on the front lines at the hospital everyday and staying up at another piece of property we have over in Arkansas I didn't bug her a bit with the dry firing.

Ernie's spring or a good Timney will only make today more easily repeatable.

I believe Gunner has this rifle about done! Great shooting buddy!

LOL! Thanks again Big Buddy, I was LMAO when that hole got bigger with every shot, a man has to control the excitement and get the rest of the rounds fired, last shot was high and left a bit, holy crap this is fun!

The little 147 Horn leaving at 2962 ought to knock some hair off a pig or coyote! LOL, I see my 700 yard white Sharps rifle gong up on the mountain too! ; ]

Oh yeah, that's about perfect for that 147. They have been real easy for me so far.

Now you just need about 500 of them and some LR time on your steel!

You bet, a good trigger and get the scope and zero stop set for the load, a little JBM mil info and a range finder handy ; ] here piggy piggy!

I'm really happy I went with the plain old Swede!

I have a 65x06 that was built around a 140gr Hornady Spire Point seated out so the base of the bullet was seated right at the junction of the neck and shoulder. Worked out very well! I've gone ahead and tried 129gr Hornady's in it and they do shoot very well but the 140gr will out shoot them. Best strictly from accuracy point is the 140gr MK. I think if I was to ever have another rifle built it would be built around a certain weight bullet. I like bullet's seated to the base of the neck. Got into that years ago with a 7mm Rm Mag. Old Sako L61 thaut not as good as the 139 t was great with 139gr bullet's but up around 160gr still shot well but not as well as th 139gr. I figured loading out the old 160gr Speer Hot Core the same way might improve it. Made up a dummy round and had a gunsmith in Kalispell, Montana fit it to the chamber. What a difference! Accuracy was absolutely terrific and something I didn't expect, amount of powder went way up. From a load of 67grs of N205 I went up to 59grs. No idea of velocities as back them we didn't have chronographs like we do now. I've found over the years that my best loads came either just off the lands or bullet seated to the base of the neck if I could do it. In my present 65x55, I can't reach the lands and two ways it shoot great is to the base of the neck and one bullet dia into the case. I think all the 6.5x55 chamber's are long like that and would guess it's because the European's preferred the long bullet's in it!

Sounds like you've been six fiving it for a good long spell Don, they're great fun and give a lot of bang for the recoil buck, my new rifle has next to no recoil, I had to set the 147 Horns 60 thou deeper over the 150gr Sierra Matchkings, had my chamber cut for the Sierra as it was the shortest bearing surface, that way I can chase the throat, and with a long action I can chase for a good long spell.

That'll do!!

And BTW, with a build like that I wouldn't screw around with the trigger and would go straight to what you know will work best. I've got replacement springs in some of my budget builds/rifles, but when I have a rifle/barrel like you've got there, I want the best trigger I can get to take advantage of the accuracy potential of the rig.

Thanks Jordan, sounds like I need to order a Timney and get it installed, I did find my little punch kit and brass hammer out in the shop this morning, hate to be a bother, but a couple more questions.

Would you razor edged shooters bother with trying to get to an even 3000 fps, or leave well enough alone?

Would any of you guys bust a 200lb buck or boar in the last rib quartering away with a 147 ELD from 2 to 700 yards? I may want to take this rifle deer hunting this fall.

Thanks in advance,
Gunner

1) Leave it alone. Trying for another 30-40 fps is not worth it when you've found a load that shoots like that! A bullet as slick as the 147 ELD will cut the wind and retain velocity extremely well, even if it starts out 40 fps slower.

2) I would, indeed. In which case I'd be even more content to leave MV at ~2960 fps rather than trying to push it faster. I've only seen a handful of BG killed with the 147, and a friend killed his elk this year with the 147 at about 250 meters, IIRC, but all have produced exit wounds. Now all of those bullets left the muzzle at ~2650-2700 fps, so I'm not sure how it'd do at PBR with a 2960 fps launch speed, but once the bullet gets out to 100-200 yards, I'm confident it'd perform very well. Maybe others have experience running it through flesh at about 2800-2950 fps impact velocity.

I’m with Jordan. Even up close it’ll still trash the insides Gunner. They were pretty decent hitting the jugs at near muzzle velocity if 2775.. I’ll see if I can find some pictures I took.

Those hit the jugs about 20 yards from the muzzle. The 143 was 2753 and the 147 was 2775 at the muzzle.