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<blockquote data-quote="benchracer" data-source="post: 837072" data-attributes="member: 22069"><p>My first question to you is: Do you plan to handload for these rifles? If the answer is no, you are wasting your time with any 6.5 with the possible exception of the 6.5 Creedmoor.</p><p> </p><p>The good ole' Swede gets quite a bit of love. Check out the thread with the favorite 6.5 cartridge poll in the Rifles, Bullets, Barrels, and Ballistics forum. Like most 6.5's though, it's a handloader's cartridge.</p><p> </p><p>My second question is: Why choose two rifles so close together in bullet diameter? Other than speed and flatness of trajectory, there really isn't much difference between the two. The 7RM shooting 180's might give you a bit more reach, but that's it.</p><p> </p><p>If you handload, build a 7RM on whatever action you like and be done with it. Or buy a Winchester Model 70 in .264WM and be done with it.</p><p> </p><p>I am a big 6.5x55 fan. If you acquire one of the above two rifles, still want a 6.5x55, and plan to handload for it, I suggest building one rather than buying one. The factory rifles in this chambering never seem to get the combination right to allow the shooter to get the most out of this cartridge. Build the rifle to your tastes, but make sure that it has a 26" barrel with a 1:8 twist. Feed it Lapua brass and Berger bullets and load it to modern pressures.</p><p> </p><p>If you don't handload, buy an off-the-shelf 7RM and all of its favorite factory ammo that you can get your hands on.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="benchracer, post: 837072, member: 22069"] My first question to you is: Do you plan to handload for these rifles? If the answer is no, you are wasting your time with any 6.5 with the possible exception of the 6.5 Creedmoor. The good ole' Swede gets quite a bit of love. Check out the thread with the favorite 6.5 cartridge poll in the Rifles, Bullets, Barrels, and Ballistics forum. Like most 6.5's though, it's a handloader's cartridge. My second question is: Why choose two rifles so close together in bullet diameter? Other than speed and flatness of trajectory, there really isn't much difference between the two. The 7RM shooting 180's might give you a bit more reach, but that's it. If you handload, build a 7RM on whatever action you like and be done with it. Or buy a Winchester Model 70 in .264WM and be done with it. I am a big 6.5x55 fan. If you acquire one of the above two rifles, still want a 6.5x55, and plan to handload for it, I suggest building one rather than buying one. The factory rifles in this chambering never seem to get the combination right to allow the shooter to get the most out of this cartridge. Build the rifle to your tastes, but make sure that it has a 26" barrel with a 1:8 twist. Feed it Lapua brass and Berger bullets and load it to modern pressures. If you don't handload, buy an off-the-shelf 7RM and all of its favorite factory ammo that you can get your hands on. [/QUOTE]
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