Brett, it’s obvious you value the eccentric and obscure far more than I do. Good for you for doing your part to keep the oddballs alive, but I want a slightly less complicated battery. If I were going to insist on going with all rims and open the door to adding a new cartridge then I would go 22 hornet and 6.5x57R.Gun Barrel Ecologist wrote: ↑Sat Oct 20, 2018 12:46 amWhere is the fun in that?
You’ll be waiting 6 months for the gun to be built and exported, so why not spend that time obtaining dies and brass for something worthwhile?
6,5x65R RWS & 5,6x50R Mag would be a grand Oklahoma combination, resale value be damned you only live once!
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I was referring to my bbf97
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I'm just a dumb hick, I'd still try to load 12ga shells into one.
But it's mostly because other then a very few people the only shotguns in Australia are 12ga, they would make up 95% of the guns out there and the majority of the remaining 5% are 410's for kids.
But it's mostly because other then a very few people the only shotguns in Australia are 12ga, they would make up 95% of the guns out there and the majority of the remaining 5% are 410's for kids.
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This thread might should know that I already have a BBF95 in 12ga/308.
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Lol can only be cured with a bd14
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I coud live with the 6,5x57R & .22 Hornet, and just call it a 5,6x35R Vierlingebrownw2 wrote: ↑Sat Oct 20, 2018 7:43 pmBrett, it’s obvious you value the eccentric and obscure far more than I do. Good for you for doing your part to keep the oddballs alive, but I want a slightly less complicated battery. If I were going to insist on going with all rims and open the door to adding a new cartridge then I would go 22 hornet and 6.5x57R.Gun Barrel Ecologist wrote: ↑Sat Oct 20, 2018 12:46 amWhere is the fun in that?
You’ll be waiting 6 months for the gun to be built and exported, so why not spend that time obtaining dies and brass for something worthwhile?
6,5x65R RWS & 5,6x50R Mag would be a grand Oklahoma combination, resale value be damned you only live once!
I'm waiting for a response to my post in the .300 PRC thread but I have to say the 6,5x55 just doesnt do it for me thanks to being first exposed to it via a M96 and old PMC ammo
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I loved my old M96, actually I had two of them and used PMC ammunition exclusively for it as it was cheaper and loaded much hotter then any other ammunition I could get.
I killed a ton of game with it from foxes to Red Deer and a heap of pigs, I still however remember the smell of that PMC ammunition.
But those old guns are what mad me love the 6.5's so much.
I killed a ton of game with it from foxes to Red Deer and a heap of pigs, I still however remember the smell of that PMC ammunition.
But those old guns are what mad me love the 6.5's so much.
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I bought each of my four sons a M96 and let them decide how they wanted them “sporterized”. One decided to keep his original other than install a taller front sight to bring the point of impact to point of aim at 100 yards. It is actually a M48 short rifle and is in mint condition still today. One decided he wanted a “scout” configuration. This was back when Jeff Cooper was working on the concept and I was peripherally involved with the Students of the Rifle at Gunsight Arizona. He was interested because he went with me several times as I was testing one of the Steyr Scout prototypes. So that was what I built for him. One wanted a classic sporter so I restocked it with a Boyd’s hunter stock rebarreled it with a Lothar barrel, and converted it to cock on opening. The remaining son traded his for a new CZ 550 FS in 6.5X55 to a M96 collector that needed it to fill a void in his collection. He and I were at the range together yesterday with his FS. It still shot 1-1.5” groups at 200 yards with hand loads I developed for him 15 years ago and has taken a ton of game both here in the US and in Africa.
The 6.5 bore was severely underestimated in the US until theCreedmoor came on stage.
The 6.5 bore was severely underestimated in the US until theCreedmoor came on stage.
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I don't why the creedmore was such a hit when the 260rem had such limited success.
I wish I never sold my model 7, that rifle did more hunting then any rifle since and it did such a good job too.
Sadly now a 260rem is too small for what I need and worse still it's not because it's insufficient but because it's bore is technically undersized on paper.
It will do as good a job as my 308win on any game.
There is nothing that you couldn't kill cleanly in North America with a Swede, or a 260rem for that matter.
Although I wouldn't want to stop a charging grisly with one, or a 308win for that matter.
I wish I never sold my model 7, that rifle did more hunting then any rifle since and it did such a good job too.
Sadly now a 260rem is too small for what I need and worse still it's not because it's insufficient but because it's bore is technically undersized on paper.
It will do as good a job as my 308win on any game.
There is nothing that you couldn't kill cleanly in North America with a Swede, or a 260rem for that matter.
Although I wouldn't want to stop a charging grisly with one, or a 308win for that matter.
I'm soft and I don't care.
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I went with 30-06 for my D14 as the large caliber only because in some situations laws or opinions preclude the 6.5 bore calibers. However, I do not see any difference on game personally.
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Remington as typical never supported the 260 . They made it with limited ammo choices. Ammo was same price as anything else, and not everyone stocked it. After the initial release zero marketing was done.SPEEDY wrote: ↑Sun Oct 21, 2018 8:45 am I don't why the creedmore was such a hit when the 260rem had such limited success.
I wish I never sold my model 7, that rifle did more hunting then any rifle since and it did such a good job too.
Sadly now a 260rem is too small for what I need and worse still it's not because it's insufficient but because it's bore is technically undersized on paper.
It will do as good a job as my 308win on any game.
There is nothing that you couldn't kill cleanly in North America with a Swede, or a 260rem for that matter.
Although I wouldn't want to stop a charging grisly with one, or a 308win for that matter.
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I know that hurt it a lot, and no other manufacturers made ammo for it.
It was a real shame but my handloads were golden for it, my load of choice was a 100gn Nosler BT at 3300fps from a 20" tube with 43.5gn of Benchmark 2.
For goats, pigs and Fallow it worked a treat.
It was also a laser under the light on foxes flat shooting and damn accurate too.
It was a real shame but my handloads were golden for it, my load of choice was a 100gn Nosler BT at 3300fps from a 20" tube with 43.5gn of Benchmark 2.
For goats, pigs and Fallow it worked a treat.
It was also a laser under the light on foxes flat shooting and damn accurate too.
I'm soft and I don't care.