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Great buck! Dang nice one!

If the twist is tight enough you could make use of the newer 6.5mm projectile offerings and bring it out of retirement.

I agree and it is 1-8". I should never have rebarreled it to anything other than what it began life as, a 30/06. I was my very first deer rifle and it needs to be a 30/06 again. That was 40 some years ago and I've since hit the easy button on rifles, which means there are so many good choices in factory ammo for the 6.5 CM that I have no desire to mess with the 06 version thereof.

Creedmore will never equal a 6.5x06. But if running a single 06 case through your FL die and seating a bullet is too tough, then yea, I guess the need more is what you should have.🤪

I would maybe go as far as saying the 6.5x06 is the best of all the 30-06 case. I'm running a 280 right now and I can get it up where my 6.5 was, but certainly not beat it. If I needed more I'd run a 156 elite hunter and be right with my 280 and its 162 eldxs.
That 6.5x06 is a deer rifle, coyote rifle, elk rifle, target rifle, whatever. Probably the best all around performer of all time. My 4831 sc load was 55 grains and a 140. My bud had the improved version and ran the same charge. His clocked at 3170. It was 264 win mag stuff.

Good looking rifle Sako. It should be a shooter and wait for the update.

Mine likes 120 TTSX bullets

Rocking gently while repeating to myself "I do not need anymore rifles, I do not need anymore rifles, I do not need anymore rifles..."
Good thing its not a lefty...

Ok, I got it, you're a f'king idiot, makes sense.

I guess instead of sleeping with a woman, you shove a 6.5-06 barrel up your ass?

You got some serious problems dude.....complementing a guy's rifle on a thread he started and then you schit on his thread....guess a guy's not entitled to his opinion....keep defending your creedmore.

Nice blueprint. Hint.

I'm not a Wilson Guy,as they don't wear very well and will Copper Mine. As 264 Twat-Six goes,a guy could do worse,though the 280 remains King,if only because bullets matter more than headstamps. I set mine up for .796 BC 180 ELD Smooches at 3.585" COAL,for land chasin' in a 700. It also plays nice with .838 BC 190 Beer Cans. Hint.

Lotsa ass,for minimal recoil. Hint..................

Nice rifle !
Karl does good things !

6.5-06 sounds fun !

A beauty! That Dog'll hut!

Scott, have you ever been diagnosed with Tourette’s?

Nice clean build.

I have owned 6.5x06 rifles since 1967. Mr Hodgdon and me have good taste, this cat was his favorite hunting rifle. My current 700 ADL in 6.5x06, it does 800 yard woodchucks, hogs deer and antelope. In anddition they anal equal a 24" factory 264 WM in performance, any way you want to measure it with actual equipment.

The 6.5x06 is exactly the same cartridge as the 6.5x284, so will do wonders with 85s through 160s with a 1-8 twist 26" would you like to see what happens to a chuck hit with an 85 doing 3,800 fps? I will red mist a 35 pound chuck. Makes two reports about the same volume. The 156 grain Cupronickel FMJ RN will go through a six foot in diameter spruce tree like butter.

I am a 6.5 kind of competition shooter, a few dozen of various makes, models and cartridge capacities.
This is the R 700 I built a few years ago, still shoots real well.

I agree it is not a 264 win mag, but it can come close for a .473 case. I ran the 264 for a little bit with the same 140s and re25. The 6.5x284 is an excellent cartridge as well, but I could never get the velocity from mine that I could my 6.5x06. Kinda strange as the same powder and the same bullet were being used and my 6.5x284 load was 53.5 grains and my 6.5x06 was 55. The 6.5x284 would clock at 2930 out of a CA ridgeline, whereas the shilen would do right at 3150. Wouldn't think a grain and a half would make much difference as they weren't that maxed out. I actually like the 6.5x248 design better, but just never thought that it was that great. Always thought a 260 improved or a 6.5x55 improved would be cool, but the 6.5x06 is a performer and is an easy wildcat. Unless you go the 270 brass route and trim your azz off....

C10 are you saying you were getting 3150 out of a 140 Berger with a 6.5-06 or a 264 Win Mag?

With R25 being so hard to find, what seems to be the best available powder for the 6.5-06?

3150 with the standard 6.5x06.
Never chrony'd the 264WM.