6.5 brass

[triceratops3]

I've been looking into rebarreling one of my savage's to create a long range rifle.

I was wanting to make it a .308 and shoot 208gr amax's but started looking at the .260 and 6.5 creedmoor with 140gr amax's. I'm not sure which i should get now. 6.5 bullets will be around 5-7 dollars cheaper for 100. But i will need to get 6.5 brass and dies. After looking at the 6.5 creedmoor I am starting to change my mind to either 308 or 260 because it seems like noone has 6.5 creedmoor brass (which also seems more expensive).

I don't really want to have to form 6.5 brass so is there anywhere that you guys know of where I can find it or if anyone has some once fired stuff for sale? because i think i'd like to try the creedmoor but im not too excited about the extreme lack of brass.

 

[BobinNC]

Re: 6.5 brass

Ask and you shall receive, three sources of 6.5 Creedmoor brass in stock.

Creedmoor Sports

Gunstop Reloading per 50

Same but per 250

Sinclair International Note; Now shows out of stock....

 

[triceratops3]

Re: 6.5 brass

sweet. I think I may need to make a decision soon and buy a bunch of it while they have it, or are they normally in stock at these places?

 

[THUNDERBOLT68]

Re: 6.5 brass

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[BobinNC]

Re: 6.5 brass

Hornady makes runs of 6.5 brass. Between runs finding it can be tough. But I gave you a link to 250 (5x50), that should last as least as long as your barrel does.....

When you rebarrel, buy another 250 rounds of new brass; sounds like a plan does it not....

 

[triceratops3]

Re: 6.5 brass

I think that sounds like a great plan. and it will probably last longer than the time between the next run because I don't shoot all the time.

 

[Rthur]

Re: 6.5 brass

If you go 260 win 7-08 brass is almost everywhere and one run through the 260 die and you are good to go.

 

[triceratops3]

Re: 6.5 brass

Thats what I like about the .260. It seems like there's a lot more brass for it. and easier to form brass for it if needed.

 

[tacshooter223]

Re: 6.5 brass

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[427Cobra]

Re: 6.5 brass

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: triceratops3</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Thats what I like about the .260. It seems like there's a lot more brass for it. and easier to form brass for it if needed. </div></div>

There is more brass out there for the 260, but the CM is way more efficient, and you should be able to get more rounds out of a CM barrel, mag length constraints are also not an issue because the case is shorter than the 308 family, 2 years ago I built a 260, today I would go with the CM.