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Big Stick got some Badlands Super Bulldozers ?

fkn awesome mang, now dump that Jabby Steve wHorenady garbage STAT

Yeh, I put him onto them. Don't know if he's loaded 'em yet, but he's got 'em.

Never known a 'bad' 6.5 - but having built a 6.5 - 308 the year before Rem launched their version of the 'A-Square' - yeah, IDK how Rem got it thru SAAMI before AS but......needless to say, it never matched some Swedes. I did have a few Full custom 260s that did very well with Lapua brass that was not around when I had my first 6.5-308 done.

But since then I have leaned to the Creed and x47 personally. They both seem to find accuracy easier.

Nothing wrong with any when you can plug your vitals with a decent 6.5 regardless of headstamp.

BS - is that a JOC AI above?

Build a 30 T/C, and twist how you like. A 13 or 14 twist would handle 125's up to 150's. Tons of Creedmoor brass out there.

If I were going to change, it would be a 300 RSAUM.

It's hard to beat the 308 for versatility and ammo availability, that's the route I went. If not the 308, the 6mm CM is solid and ammo is readily available. If you handload I guess it doesn't really matter.

Do handload and have one 308/7.62 in an Enfield. The easiest way to help a .308 is to extend the chamber and throat to handle 30-06 SPRG cartridges. The 308 does NOT handle heavy bullets fpr
elk, bear or moose. In AK, that gets to be important.
The 6 mm or 6,5 has not the history or performance of the 270 WCF or the 7mm Mauser. Think I will keep my pre-64 M70s in those calibers and buy more powder and bullets.

I just picked up my 30-6.5wby rpm2 days ago.
It was a 26in bull-barreled.308 on a 700action.
I’m pushing 200eldxs 2970fps with 66gr of Staball 6.5.
180gr Sierra gamekings are getting 3150 with 68gr of h4350.

Neither the 200gr eldx or 180gr sierras would group with the 12 twist barrel.
I discovered flatbase 180s(partitions, interlocks,hotcors) group well.
I’m pushing partitions 3113fps with 73gr of h4831

I built five 6.5x08 Remington 700s and two AR-10 Armalite rifles in 6.5x08. I would have traded a left important part for that AR-10 in Vietnam VS my M-14 with its 3x9 Redfield scope. I am somewhat partial to the 6.5x08 with a 120 SMK, Rem 243 brass prepped then fire formed and selected by case capacity and H-414 powder and 210m primers. The 6.5x08 will shoot out spent shotgun shell primers at 100. Try it sometime.