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<blockquote data-quote="Duffman" data-source="post: 3078997" data-attributes="member: 94849"><p>If your goal is really to kill small-medium game to 800 yards with a handy rifle your plan is a good one. I built similar rifle to yours. I wanted a suppressed hunting rifle that was shorter than my old long action magnum 26"barrel+brake. I got 147 eld-m's going 2850 in a short action 22" barrel. Wish it was a little faster, but still accomplishes my goal. Can you squeeze a little more out of a 6.5 prc on a medium or long action? Certainly! Longer barrel will give you velocity too. If you want to explore the outer bounds of what you can do with a 6.5, you could build a 26 nosler launching Berger 156's out of a 30" barrel as well <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="🤣" title="Rolling on the floor laughing :rofl:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f923.png" data-shortname=":rofl:" />. Sounds like you already have 7's and 30's for that.</p><p></p><p>Cheers. <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="🍻" title="Clinking beer mugs :beers:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f37b.png" data-shortname=":beers:" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Duffman, post: 3078997, member: 94849"] If your goal is really to kill small-medium game to 800 yards with a handy rifle your plan is a good one. I built similar rifle to yours. I wanted a suppressed hunting rifle that was shorter than my old long action magnum 26”barrel+brake. I got 147 eld-m’s going 2850 in a short action 22” barrel. Wish it was a little faster, but still accomplishes my goal. Can you squeeze a little more out of a 6.5 prc on a medium or long action? Certainly! Longer barrel will give you velocity too. If you want to explore the outer bounds of what you can do with a 6.5, you could build a 26 nosler launching Berger 156’s out of a 30” barrel as well 🤣. Sounds like you already have 7’s and 30’s for that. Cheers. 🍻 [/QUOTE]
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