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My Kimber, Ruger #1, and Howa 1500 (and a friends Savage 338 Lapua) have had zero issues over the last year with Rem LRM primers (only a couple hundred rounds total). I bought another 2k of them last month. Maybe you are not seating them FIRM enough, I use an RCBS bench primer.

1-4×24 illuminated dot reticle. Mine is more accurate than it is supposed to be.

My favorite is my Ruger #1A 6.5×55 my most accurate and #2 is my Howa 7-08 wearing quilted maple.

I've taken a couple nice deer in Georgia, my brother owns 140 acres in the suburbs of Sparta. My son got transferred from Pearl Harbor (Tripler Hospital) to Ft. Gorden, finishing up his hitch as a Captain and going to stay on in Evans. Georgia is beautiful country no doubt. I grew up in south...

.223 6.5×55 30-06 357Mag rifle and pistol 45ACP Yep, I COULD make due with just these calibers plus the gifted 22lr and 12ga.

243Win with a 100gr Speer Grand Slam @3000fps is something special.

My favorite 6.5 bullet is the 125 Nosler Partition followed by the 129 SST, and honorable mention goes to the 140 Grand Slam. Hornady American Whitetail is about as good as any "hunting" factory ammo.

6.5×55 Swede (Ruger #1A & Howa 1500) with either 125 Partition or 129 SST, although I have been shooting a Kimber 243 with 100gr Grand Slams lately that is oh so sweet.

My Webley & Scott 7-08 (it's really just a pretty Howa) is right behind my Ruger #1A in 6.5×55 (THE ORIGINAL 6.5) in the pecking order, it favors 130gr Speer Hot Cor bullets (pic is 5 shots @ 100 yards, flyer is cold clean barrel).

PPU and Starline work very well for me, 100gr Grand Slam at about 3100fps. PPU makes some tough brass.

But we had the same problem during Clinton adman. and O'Bummer, I stocked up on everything after Clinton BS.

Age changes more than just looks/weight. I used to run 2.5-8x36 or 3-9x40 now I prefer 2-10x44 or 3-15x50, a 3-15x44 illuminated has become my favorite, and I still want a 1 inch tube.

I would seriously consider it..........but how's it shoot?

My "forever rifle" is my stainless #1A in 6.5×55 (Lipsey's exclusive), it will shoot .5 moa with a 125 Patrition and either H4350 or RL-19. I wanted a stainless #1 since I saw one on the cover of a shooting magazine probably 30 years ago, such an elegant rifle (mine wears a Zeiss Conquest and...

The "old" standard bullets still work, I load what my rifles shoot best. Shot placement trumps all. I have taken more deer with Hornady Interlock and Speer Hor Cor than anything else, but I'm old and I shoot an old caliber (6.5×55). I have been hunting deer for over 40 years and NEVER had one...