I shoot a Bighorn TL3 action with multiple shouldered barrels. 6mm Dasher is awesome and extremely forgiving to handload for. 6.5 saum is a shouldered barrel to the TL3. As is my 6mm competition match and 6mm Lapua. We have 223 wylde barrels coming that will be our training rifles meant for 75...
I had a 25-06. It was nice. It's a truly do anything caliber. But if I'm going to push steel or target shoot. It's going to be a 6 dasher or 6mm competition match. If I'm going to hunt. It's the 6.5 SAUM or 6.5 284 norma. 25-06 is a compromise. Why do that when you can have the best of each...
These things are NICE. They are as good pretty much about as good as the 135 JLKs we shoot. Even in load development they shot extremely well with our RL26
The company premier had a huge hand in cutting edge glass design. When the company went under those folks and designs split between Minox and Tangent theta. The TT is crazy nice and crazy expensive. The Minox is the bargain and it shows. Although people keep talking about the Minox and the price...
I've been down the exact same road your venturing on. My ultrasonic collects dust now. Stainless is so good at cleaning. Anything else would be uncivilized (grey poupon?!). Stainless in my rebel 17 and tumbling the pins out with a cage takes about 2 minutes. My pins do get stuck in 6.5mm...
The 6.5 Saum is a pooch with a 26 inch barrel. The thing so so accurate it's not even funny feels the same as a 260 R.E.M. It's hard for me to say it without smiling but it's the truth. My rig is 15 lbs tho. And I have a mad scientist muzzle brake on it. The thing is ridiculous. Use RL26 and...