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Custom Rifle - 500 yards max - what cartridge
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<blockquote data-quote="Beng" data-source="post: 843737" data-attributes="member: 37512"><p>You're right, the heavy 6.5mm bullets are pretty good and get the job done. They are still inferior to 7mm, 8mm and 9.3mm bullets of similar sd and design, though. There were new rifles and cartridges in the classic german calibers and in classic american calibers -.277 and .30 cal- available, they were expensive though, atleast to the people in the countryside, who already owned converted military m96 rifles.</p><p>I don't intend to say the 6.5x55 is bad, hell no. I'm building one myself. It's just not the perfect big game cartridge due to it's small caliber. It was adequate for use on moose with heavy bullets at short range, imho it's not adequate for use on game that heavy at extended ranges (as to the purpose of this board). To kill deer sized game (~200lbs?) at 500m max it's perfectly suited though.</p><p>I just wanted to take care of the <em>"the 6.5x55 has to be an uber moose killer since the swedes used it for a century and longer"</em>-myth which you read quite frequently in american forums.</p><p></p><p>By the way, beeing a smart *** already, the 6.5x55 is a scandinavian ordnance cartridge and thus common only in a small part of europe. In germany 7x57 &c were much more common.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Beng, post: 843737, member: 37512"] You're right, the heavy 6.5mm bullets are pretty good and get the job done. They are still inferior to 7mm, 8mm and 9.3mm bullets of similar sd and design, though. There were new rifles and cartridges in the classic german calibers and in classic american calibers -.277 and .30 cal- available, they were expensive though, atleast to the people in the countryside, who already owned converted military m96 rifles. I don't intend to say the 6.5x55 is bad, hell no. I'm building one myself. It's just not the perfect big game cartridge due to it's small caliber. It was adequate for use on moose with heavy bullets at short range, imho it's not adequate for use on game that heavy at extended ranges (as to the purpose of this board). To kill deer sized game (~200lbs?) at 500m max it's perfectly suited though. I just wanted to take care of the [I]"the 6.5x55 has to be an uber moose killer since the swedes used it for a century and longer"[/I]-myth which you read quite frequently in american forums. By the way, beeing a smart *** already, the 6.5x55 is a scandinavian ordnance cartridge and thus common only in a small part of europe. In germany 7x57 &c were much more common. [/QUOTE]
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