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Mauser Build (Pics to come)
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<blockquote data-quote="RT2506" data-source="post: 674809" data-attributes="member: 10178"><p>I would give a looooog look toward the 6.5X55 Swede or the AI version for your 98 Mauser build. You don't have to change anything in the magazine and with the proper barrel length, say 26" you can smoke a 140 gr bullet out there around 3000 fps and those golf pencil long bullets really fly flat and hammer game. You can go a ways over most published load data with that 98 Mauser action because most data is for the small ring 96 Mauser which is limited to 46,000 CUP. I have been shooting the 6.5X55 in the original 96 Mauser for a long time and have one sporterized. Even with loads under 46,000 CUP for the small ring 96 action I still get 2800 fps with 140's and 3000 with 120's with the 29" barrel. The 120 Nosler ballistic tip will smoke a deer out to a touch over 300 yards which is as far as I have shot one with it so far.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="RT2506, post: 674809, member: 10178"] I would give a looooog look toward the 6.5X55 Swede or the AI version for your 98 Mauser build. You don't have to change anything in the magazine and with the proper barrel length, say 26" you can smoke a 140 gr bullet out there around 3000 fps and those golf pencil long bullets really fly flat and hammer game. You can go a ways over most published load data with that 98 Mauser action because most data is for the small ring 96 Mauser which is limited to 46,000 CUP. I have been shooting the 6.5X55 in the original 96 Mauser for a long time and have one sporterized. Even with loads under 46,000 CUP for the small ring 96 action I still get 2800 fps with 140's and 3000 with 120's with the 29" barrel. The 120 Nosler ballistic tip will smoke a deer out to a touch over 300 yards which is as far as I have shot one with it so far. [/QUOTE]
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