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Building first custom rifle
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<blockquote data-quote="264MHC" data-source="post: 2038945" data-attributes="member: 111161"><p>Like you I live in the Southeast, Eastern NC, and would do just fine shooting a 270 with cheap 130 sp's like all my friends do. So as far as down range performance on game I don't have any good comparisons past say 150 yards, where they both have worked just fine. I just really like ballistics and like knowing my 156 Bergers will drift several MOA less at 1000 than a standard 270, and I also like being different and having a conversation piece. That being said I would never go back to the standard Swede for several reasons. Mainly I hate trimming and the case taper on the standard is excessive requiring quite a bit of trimming each firing. I've trimmed my fire formed brass once to even it out in 5 firings and I'm not even close to needing to do it again. Secondly the 6.5x55 is one of those cartridges that actually gains a lot from improving. I'm probably running the pressures quite a bit higher but the case design won't show it and everything looks perfect with tight primer pockets after 5 firings. I feel like it's just a very efficient cartridge running 140s over 3000 with 54 grains of powder and 156s over 2900 with 53. You won't regret it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="264MHC, post: 2038945, member: 111161"] Like you I live in the Southeast, Eastern NC, and would do just fine shooting a 270 with cheap 130 sp’s like all my friends do. So as far as down range performance on game I don’t have any good comparisons past say 150 yards, where they both have worked just fine. I just really like ballistics and like knowing my 156 Bergers will drift several MOA less at 1000 than a standard 270, and I also like being different and having a conversation piece. That being said I would never go back to the standard Swede for several reasons. Mainly I hate trimming and the case taper on the standard is excessive requiring quite a bit of trimming each firing. I’ve trimmed my fire formed brass once to even it out in 5 firings and I’m not even close to needing to do it again. Secondly the 6.5x55 is one of those cartridges that actually gains a lot from improving. I’m probably running the pressures quite a bit higher but the case design won’t show it and everything looks perfect with tight primer pockets after 5 firings. I feel like it’s just a very efficient cartridge running 140s over 3000 with 54 grains of powder and 156s over 2900 with 53. You won’t regret it. [/QUOTE]
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