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Hitting pressure early in 6.5 PRC
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<blockquote data-quote="vancewalker007" data-source="post: 2223475" data-attributes="member: 66917"><p>That bloodshot issue depends more on what bullet you shoot. If you don't need to to kill things over 500-600 yards the Barnes LRX 127g or one of the other monos will give you very little bloodshot meat. The second to the monos would be a bonded or partitioned bullet. All the sleek long range bullets and cup and core ones are going to leave more mess behind in that 0-400ish yardage. </p><p></p><p>Sounds like you figured out your pressure mystery. Those thicker Nosler cases and hot mag primers are going to make your results different than the book data you were looking at. Plus, every rifle is a little different and going to hit 60000+ PSI at different points. Likely the book rounds were shot with Hornady brass and a standard rifle primers. I have found in these small cases and in cartridges like WSMs the standard large rifle primers gave the best results. I've been shooting CCI BR2s in my 6.5 for 3 years now with great results.</p><p></p><p>What you need to watch out for on your PRC are cases not resizing just above the web. This starts happening after several reloads. I would suggest once you finish resizing and trimming cases shot more than 3 times I'd run the cases through your rifle paying close attention to how tight the bolt closes. If you find one that is tight, ie. doesn't close like new case, I'd toss it. If that web area does not resize and you fire that case you're likely gonna realized some primer popping pressure. I know, because I've experienced it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="vancewalker007, post: 2223475, member: 66917"] That bloodshot issue depends more on what bullet you shoot. If you don't need to to kill things over 500-600 yards the Barnes LRX 127g or one of the other monos will give you very little bloodshot meat. The second to the monos would be a bonded or partitioned bullet. All the sleek long range bullets and cup and core ones are going to leave more mess behind in that 0-400ish yardage. Sounds like you figured out your pressure mystery. Those thicker Nosler cases and hot mag primers are going to make your results different than the book data you were looking at. Plus, every rifle is a little different and going to hit 60000+ PSI at different points. Likely the book rounds were shot with Hornady brass and a standard rifle primers. I have found in these small cases and in cartridges like WSMs the standard large rifle primers gave the best results. I've been shooting CCI BR2s in my 6.5 for 3 years now with great results. What you need to watch out for on your PRC are cases not resizing just above the web. This starts happening after several reloads. I would suggest once you finish resizing and trimming cases shot more than 3 times I'd run the cases through your rifle paying close attention to how tight the bolt closes. If you find one that is tight, ie. doesn't close like new case, I'd toss it. If that web area does not resize and you fire that case you're likely gonna realized some primer popping pressure. I know, because I've experienced it. [/QUOTE]
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