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Another thank you for sharing and all the hard work you put in. Always nice to see actual confirmation of beliefs held about my .260!!!

Great ... now I have confirmation that consistent .5 to .8 groups with the 130 TSX @ 2925 is all I am ever going to need out of my Swede Featherweight.

Thanks ALOT for interrupting my load development!

LOL

OK ... so I'm still working on seeing if the 129 SP will shoot to same POI for cheaper practice ...

GE

Gav,

Try the HP's by Sierra for extremely accurate, cheap target practice... Even cheaper than the Hornady..but if you're looking for same POI then I doubt these will work...

Steve,

Thanks for one of the most substantive posts of the year. I'm sure that was a lot of work, and I know I speak for a lot of others when I say "Thank You!" for sharing this with the rest of us here around this campfire.

I love those TSX's myself!

Wow!! what a pile of work you put into this. 15"s deep for 125 gr Nozler PT's and 18"s deep outta 130 gr TSX's is impressive at 22" barrled hunting rifle and not a ??" pressure barrel Swede speeds. I'll be happy to donate some boolitz if you ever take the time to do an update. Hope somebody knows how to keep this placed in an archive for future reference.
Ron

Very well done- if you want to test some more 6.5s, I'm sure we can come up with some accubonds, scirocco IIs, TTBC et al.

Great job with the Photos too!

Dennis

Unless a guy wants a coyote bullet that follows the same trajectory as his big game loads. Most of these are his target bullets, J-4 jackets IIRC. Richard told me a while back that he will be bonding some of these on request. Apparently these rebated boattail lackets are difficult to bond but it can be done with some special dies that he can get. The finer points of bullet making are really over my head but I like to keep an eye on his offerings. I hear that he's having some bullet tips made for him so he'll be able to up his BC's even more.

His current thicker jacketed hunting bullets like the listed 125 FBSP are already bonded, they can't match the range of these long rebated bullets though.

BCSteve, Fantastic work. TYVM.

He's bonded some 6.5 125's for me and they work just fine as a big game bullet.

Here's the spreadsheet that goes with it. It's easier to compare.

Steve, fantastic post!

Steve that is great. Doesn't surprise me, but it was great. Only thing that I might have done differently was fire up the chrony too...

Thanks for all your hard work.

I've been putting off working up loads and playing with my 260. Looks like the NP or the TSX is going to be the winner. Probably go with the NP as they're a little less expensive and appear to work just as well.

Greg,

Thanks for the advice on cheap boolits. .264 Boolit supply is not a problem around here. I've "inherited" beaucoup 264 boolits from a deceased hunting partner of my dads and bought a bulk of others before even owning my 6.5x55 (which is how I justified the purchase of the rifle).

Been working up approximate POI loads for most of my premium bullets so I'm not spending four bits plus each time I touch off a TSX for practice. Want to know where the rifle shoots at various ranges without needing to uber kill the paper or whatever is the intended victim.

Very informative and eye opening. Thank you for your contribution. Looks like there ain't a heckuva lot a fella couldn't do with a 125gr Partition or 130gr TSX. Heck it looks like the 129gr Hornady SP would cover a good deal of ground to. Thanks again.

WOW! I appreciate it when folks truly show me the numbers. Thanks, 1Minute

You've got enough numbers to keep you busy for a while!

Thank you for such an incredible post! It was very useful info for my 260 Remington.

It looks like the Hornady 129 would be a great deer bullet, the 125 Partition as a great all-around bullet, and the 130 TSX to shoot through elk or moose.

Nice, Steve.

Jaywalker

Great work and I know how much work that is. I have a bunch of test results from many of the same bullet makers, but at slightly higher velocities shot out of a 6.5-06. The Hornay 140 grain AMAX's, flat bases and Vmax's look exactly like your's, but the ones I recovered where from animals (deer and antelope). Same goes with the Barnes bullets and Sierra Pro Hunters and Matchkings. They all look identical to the bullets I recovered from animals. I think it would be pretty safe to say that in 6.5 caliber, the newspaper test is pretty darn close to real animal tissue. Pretty amazing similarities. Flinch

Thanks Steve,Looking at the tests,my choice of 140SST looks ok for the a 264WM on deer. There was a fellow at Barnet that asked for all the recovered bullets he could get to compare them to the wet newspaper test.Those that saw the results felt it was a valid test.

I know how much work a couple of bullet tests took,so thanks again.