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6.5-284 or 6.5-06
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<blockquote data-quote="Trickymissfit" data-source="post: 559126" data-attributes="member: 25383"><p>think about it a minute. The neck on the 6.5-284 is known to be too short from the start. You load a 6.5x284 to about 2.88" over all length with with the 140 grain bullet. You load a 6.5-06 with the same bullet at 3.260" in a 30-06 mag well. The same 30-06 with 175 grain sierras is about .030" longer in over all length. In otherwords no serious problem. But if you do a short action in the 6.5-284, your looking at stuffing the 2.88" number in a mag well designed for a .308 length round (if its a Remington). The 7.62 service rifle loads are set at 2.80". Now a Winchester is slightly longer than the Remington, and a Savage is a little longer yet (I'd guess .156"). This means that your gonna be pushing the bullet back into the shoulder with those long bullets, thus loosing out in case capacity. That is unless you doing a Savage. But if the action is 30-06 length; you wont have these issues to deal with. The Remington will be somewhere around 3.30" in the long action, so a 6.5-06 will work just fine with the VLD's, and not have the base of the bullet stuffed into the shoulder. I think that whatever I went with it would be on a long action.</p><p>gary</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Trickymissfit, post: 559126, member: 25383"] think about it a minute. The neck on the 6.5-284 is known to be too short from the start. You load a 6.5x284 to about 2.88" over all length with with the 140 grain bullet. You load a 6.5-06 with the same bullet at 3.260" in a 30-06 mag well. The same 30-06 with 175 grain sierras is about .030" longer in over all length. In otherwords no serious problem. But if you do a short action in the 6.5-284, your looking at stuffing the 2.88" number in a mag well designed for a .308 length round (if its a Remington). The 7.62 service rifle loads are set at 2.80". Now a Winchester is slightly longer than the Remington, and a Savage is a little longer yet (I'd guess .156"). This means that your gonna be pushing the bullet back into the shoulder with those long bullets, thus loosing out in case capacity. That is unless you doing a Savage. But if the action is 30-06 length; you wont have these issues to deal with. The Remington will be somewhere around 3.30" in the long action, so a 6.5-06 will work just fine with the VLD's, and not have the base of the bullet stuffed into the shoulder. I think that whatever I went with it would be on a long action. gary [/QUOTE]
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