madcarpenter,
It's built on a Weatherby Mark V six lug action that weighs twenty-six ounces. With a 26" Pac-Nor barrel that matches the factory contour, fluted by Twisted Barrel, with a Terminator 2 brake, a Proof Research stock with the Weatherby shape (which added six ounces) that has a Hastings 1.26" recoil pad (2.9 ounces), Talley rings and a Swarovski z5 5-25X52 it weighed six pounds and thirteen ounces. I switched to a scope four ounces heavier with slightly better glass.
Hornady made a hydro-forming die and the loading dies so they have the "print". They would call it the 6.5SLR2 because I made one like the Gibbs with Weatherby radii and discovered 9.3X64 before I ever chamber the barrel. The reamers were made by Dave Manson. He is fantastic to work with.
One of the guys at Proof Research called to tell me "the action is really cute."
The first photo shows the parent case, necked down case for the hydro die, and the hydro-formed case. The other photo shows the first SLR idea I had. It is a .257" but looks exactly like the 6.5mm. It has the Weatherby radii, but it doesn't look like it in the photo. After one season I rebarreled to the larger 6.5mm case.
I tried twice to reduce the size of the second photo. I don't know what to do, so here they are.
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