6.5x55 and .260 Rem Loads you can share?
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mordecai
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6.5x55 and .260 Rem Loads you can share?
Anyone have a few loads they'd care to share? CPT and Ram loadings?
With the 120gr and 140gr loads, what respective fps are you trying to reach?
With the 120gr and 140gr loads, what respective fps are you trying to reach?
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I load both cartridges.
Your rifle will probably like either the 107 SierraMK or the 108 Lapua. I use a medium charge of a relatively fast powder, say in the 4895 range, (for low recoil and muzzle blast) and don't push for more than about 2500 fps. I try a few variations in powder charge for decent accuracy and call it a C-P-T load. Lots of powders will work fine.
For rams I try the 139 and 144 Lapuas to see which the rifle prefers with a near max load of slower powder.
Remember, we're shooting offhand. The point of all this is that I don't push for maximum velocity on the C-P-T load and I don't spend dozens of hours and half my barrel life trying to shrink the groups from 1 MOA to .7 MOA. Get you a reasonably accurate, light-kicking short line load and a heavy ram load and get after it. (The loads you were given here sound great. I'm just longer-winded than some.)
Your rifle will probably like either the 107 SierraMK or the 108 Lapua. I use a medium charge of a relatively fast powder, say in the 4895 range, (for low recoil and muzzle blast) and don't push for more than about 2500 fps. I try a few variations in powder charge for decent accuracy and call it a C-P-T load. Lots of powders will work fine.
For rams I try the 139 and 144 Lapuas to see which the rifle prefers with a near max load of slower powder.
Remember, we're shooting offhand. The point of all this is that I don't push for maximum velocity on the C-P-T load and I don't spend dozens of hours and half my barrel life trying to shrink the groups from 1 MOA to .7 MOA. Get you a reasonably accurate, light-kicking short line load and a heavy ram load and get after it. (The loads you were given here sound great. I'm just longer-winded than some.)
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6.5X55
My Pal and I got the Century Swede Sporters some ten years ago. He worked up a load and had me start (my first try at reloading) at 37gn of IMR 4064 with the 140gn SMK. That load went under two inches for a five shot group at 200 yds. I have some other bullets to try someday, mainly the Norma 130 and some original 144 Lapua FMJ. We split a case of the old red box Lapua FMJ rounds and reloaded that wonderful brass.