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She looks better as a brunette too..

I think Hair Care was a course at beauty school

Yep true story, I just checked...The ladys name is, Fiona!

It just seems like you guys aren't taking this thread seriously.....

How did I KNOW you were gonna say that?!?!?

This is very relevant to Ladders.






My wife's name happens to be Jane. She still floats my boat the same as the day we met.

Yea, but look how much her boobs shrunk. There ain't much for you to play with now.

That's a saaawwwweeeeettttt Model 70 WYcoyote.


Oh,and the bison ain't bad either.

What makes you say a thing like that?

You have laser-like focus and seriousness

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the same but different.


dave

Yep.

shoot 24 rounds at 100 yards and still haven't tweaked seating or shot it at long range to see if it has any vertical.

That's why the Audette trumps it, as you know.

I haven't had much luck with OCW.
Especially OCW at 100 yards.
Last time I tried it with the Dasher blow out gun there only was about .035 difference in the height of the groups....ie across 6 different groups.
I just could not see where it would do me much good.
I did take the best one of the 6 and tried it at 500 and it printed a nice 1.75 for five.Have no idea if its a "good" load or not.But it showed promise.

dave

There'll be a couple of Audettes shot within the next month.

New barrel on the target .300 WM being chambered and a new .300 WM hunting rig being put together.

Rick, suprised your not toying with the 6.5 saum, sure seems to be right up your alley!

When you have a .264 Winchester or a Creedmoor, you have your bases covered!


Funny you should say that though. The day we were out shooting ELR and I posted the 1571 yard rock shooting video, one of my friends had just chambered a rifle for the 6.5 SAUM and brought it. It really shot well at 100 with a couple of 3 shot groups in the .2's and .3's. We had a chrono set up. He was loading H-1000 as well in the 61.5 grain range. Velocity was just over 3040 fps with the 140

I get 2925 in the Creedmoor with 43.5 grains and 3250 with the .264 and 77 grains

I guess you do have them covered, what are your thoughts on the 6.5 saum, did you shoot it?

I didn't.

My thoughts are this:

There are SO many different cartridges. They all do basically the same thing. They are more alike than different as we've seen said many times.

For a hunting round I'm sure it's great, but there are quite a few pain in the ass things to do to get the brass prepped. Neck up or down the SAUM brass depending on what you can find, neck turning, etc.

The reason to have a hopped-up 6.5mm is to shoot high BC bullets reeeel fast like. The .264 Win does that better than the SAUM

With the velocities the Creedmoor is capable of and the fantastic factory hunting/match ammo produced, it's tough to beat for a match rifle, hunting rifle, and just an all-around fun-shooting rifle. Barrel life is great too.

Just depends on your wants and needs. If I felt a need, I'd build one but, like I said, it's tough to improve upon what I already have. You can only shoot one at a time. The guy who brought it out that day was kind of disappointed in it. He actually built it. He's killed two animals at really long range. 1175 and 1070. Both with the 7mm SAUM and the 168 Berger VLD and sees no advantage with this 6.5 version.

Rick according to Pat and George factory brass is on its way.

I was going to building a 6.5 Creedmoor, then changed my mine to go 6.5 SAUM. However I already bought the action and didn't get a Mag bolt so decided to stick with the 6.5 Creedmoor.

I believe the 6.5 SAUM is going to be around. But I do agree the 6.5mm is a crowded playing field with plenty of good choices.