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Custom Rifle - 500 yards max - what cartridge
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<blockquote data-quote="north of 53" data-source="post: 564974" data-attributes="member: 8510"><p>6.5x55 hands down they are very accurate and with 140 gr bullet will hit harder at 500 yards than most 308s. I run a 6.5x55 improved and get over 2000 rounds at 3000fps out of my barrel before I change them out, and that barrel will still shoot 5 inch groups at 500 yards on a good day.</p><p>In a 6.5x55 stock chambered gun 3000- 4000 rounds are common with very good accuracy. The thing that the 6.5 has going for it is the very high B.C. bullets that's mostly because it was mostly a European caliber for years and they tend to look and shooting a little differently than North Americans. In North America we tend to go for light and fast bullets and give up a lot in B.C. that's great out around 300 yards but after 300 yards and even more so past 500 yards it is more a game of not how fast you start but fast you finish and that when the 6.5s rule. The 7MM can do very well also but tend to have a lot more recoil and not nearly as pleasant to shoot as the 6.5x 55 or many other 6.5s available. As a caliber 6.5s are very hard to beat and as a case the 6.5x55 has a very long track record of gettig the job done.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="north of 53, post: 564974, member: 8510"] 6.5x55 hands down they are very accurate and with 140 gr bullet will hit harder at 500 yards than most 308s. I run a 6.5x55 improved and get over 2000 rounds at 3000fps out of my barrel before I change them out, and that barrel will still shoot 5 inch groups at 500 yards on a good day. In a 6.5x55 stock chambered gun 3000- 4000 rounds are common with very good accuracy. The thing that the 6.5 has going for it is the very high B.C. bullets that's mostly because it was mostly a European caliber for years and they tend to look and shooting a little differently than North Americans. In North America we tend to go for light and fast bullets and give up a lot in B.C. that's great out around 300 yards but after 300 yards and even more so past 500 yards it is more a game of not how fast you start but fast you finish and that when the 6.5s rule. The 7MM can do very well also but tend to have a lot more recoil and not nearly as pleasant to shoot as the 6.5x 55 or many other 6.5s available. As a caliber 6.5s are very hard to beat and as a case the 6.5x55 has a very long track record of gettig the job done. [/QUOTE]
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