My 6.5x47 likes moly-coated Lapua 123's.

[stevewix]

My 6.5x47 likes moly-coated Lapua 123's. SD's of 2, sub-quarter inch groups and near-zero vertical dispersion. That's the good part.

The bad: John at Powder Valley informed me today Lapua has discontinued the Silver Jacket line. I am equipped to moly coat bullets, but only 100-200 at a time. I find it difficult to quantify just how much moly is actually on the bullet, and I do not know how a variation will affect velocity. Since I have no means of measurement other than eyesight, I would prefer to buy one lot of bullets moly coated in quantity.

My Question: For those of you shooting Bergers in your 6.5x47, what advice do you have? Is there another bullet I should be looking at? I would like to avoid using a plastic-tipped bullet if possible.

 

[Grand]

Re: My 6.5x47 likes moly-coated Lapua 123's.

Why not try them naked.

 

[Mod Adahy]

Re: My 6.5x47 likes moly-coated Lapua 123's.

Advice on the bergers, you can fall out of a tree and find a load for the 130 in the 47L. I am running 41.6 grains of IMR 4350 with the 130 berger at 2.785 COAL and get 2960 with cci 450 primers.

 

[stevewix]

Re: My 6.5x47 likes moly-coated Lapua 123's.

I had better-than-previous results with this particular rifle switching to moly. I would like to stay with it.

I would prefer not to engage rifling with the ogive, for a couple reasons. That said, should I be looking at the hybrid bullet or the VLD?
I should have mentioned my twist rate earlier, 8.5".
Steve

 

[leadbullet]

Re: My 6.5x47 likes moly-coated Lapua 123's.

use naked hybrid and match the speed of your scenars, it shoould equal the accuracy and if not you should be very close.
hope this helps.

 

[30SMK]

Re: My 6.5x47 likes moly-coated Lapua 123's.

Are you having a problem with fouling in your rifle?

Why moly over naked? You should get equal or close results from naked bullets.

Good luck

 

[milo 2.0]

Re: My 6.5x47 likes moly-coated Lapua 123's.

Why not just moly the Berger's, you can do 500 at a time with the right jars in a tumbler.

And unless you're really horsing it, you'll never get the velocity out of the 130's, or especialy the 140 hybrids that you did with the 123 scenar.
If you're looking to save coin, buy the 130 Norma .585 bc, it will out shoot the Berger. You can buy them molyed from www.neconus.com