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Originally Posted by Blacktail
I have a 6.5 I stumbled on build by Selby great lighweight gun. I have only shot factory rem 120 core locts out of it not too impressive I know this gun is capable of a ton better. Any suggestions on loads bullets and primers. Was hoping to get 120's to 130's to shoot well out of it for packing in after blacktails. It has a 23" shilen so I hope to be around 3000fps. Someone mentioned 129sst, rl-22 and rem 9 1/2m primers i dont have any experience with any of these choices. My only reloading has been for my 7 mm STW using cci mag primers. Thnx
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You haven't mentioned if this rifle is built on a short action or a long action. I have a 6.5 Rem built on mauser 98 action. I seat the bullets out to the full length allowed by a mauser action. This gives you quite a bit more useable case capacity. Both the 125 partition and the 129 gr Hornady SST can be driven to pretty impresive velocity with RL22. If you have a short action you lose some case capacity. With the short action Mag Pro powder will give you some decent velocity. Hope that helps
Thanks Doug. 
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