Re: 6.5-06
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Greg Langelius *</div><div class="ubbcode-body">The 6.5-'06 has a camparatively small but apparently intensely loyal following. While I would consider it relatively overbore, I fail to see much in the way of horror stories relating to it and bore life. I have worked with .25-'06 and .30-'06 and am currently working with .280 Rem/7mm Rem Express, which is in fact a 7mm-06. I'm finding accuracy surprisingly good. Putting 120gr Nosler Ballistic Tips out at around 3100-3200fps is an awesome experience, but the recoil is no worse than a .30-'06/150gr in a lightweight sporter; I shot both in sequence Saturday. The .280 in question is a Ruger 77 MKI V.
Watch shoulder lengths, some of the .30-'06 family have shoulder length variances from the others. I believe the .280 is a tad longer, to deliberately prevent chambering in the wrong chambers (i.e. .270's).
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Greg-
The 270 has a different shoulder length than the 280 I think, there's something different with the 270 over the other 30-06 based "wildcats"
I built a 6.5-06 with a buddy back in March. His rifle hits 600y with 140 Bergers in under 9 MOA... We're expecting about 2k total barrel life with 1 setback involved. Overbore ratio is around the same as the 6.5-284, it's a little more overbore, but the longer neck seems to be the come-back factor from a bunch of 6.5-06 shooters that I talked to before I bought the reamer.
I'm building a 280 this week just to shoot the heavier 7mm's for more knockdown and slightly improved BC's and improved barrel life.
Chad- 130 JLK's run 3300-3350 with a 27" barrel. We haven't chrono'd the 140 Bergers yet, it appears they should take around the same to get to 1k, roughly 18-19 MOA each. I will ask him to update a range report when he gets out to TVP in June to shoot it.
OP- I think you're really going to like the rifle. It outruns my 30-06 with heavy bullets in flight path, ballistically it's very flat and efficient, yet recoil is exceptionally light, spotting hits at 200y is simple. (200 is the shortest distance we ever shot it)
The round is scary accurate. It was a Turk Mauser action, budget build, truck axle shilen and initial load testing with 4831sc and 140 Bergers shot clover-leaf groups at 200y.