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<blockquote data-quote="WildRose" data-source="post: 497442" data-attributes="member: 30902"><p>My first thought would be , "what is your main goal for this rifle?".</p><p> </p><p>Do you want to go for extreme velocity, extreme accuracy, does barrel life matter?</p><p> </p><p>I thought for years about trying to build a 6.5 STW, but never got around to it.</p><p> </p><p>Now that I'm all grown up, and understand that I have to live on a budget, I have instead opted to build a .260 rem.</p><p> </p><p>Anything I own, I will shoot and shoot a lot so cost of ammo, availability of components, availability of good factory ammo, and barrel life matter a lot to me.</p><p> </p><p>From the mild end you have the 6.5 Lapua, on the extreme end you have the .264 win mag or 6.5 STW.</p><p> </p><p>Me I'm just going to spend my first thousand rounds of .260 trying to find the sweet spot between velocity and accuracy and I suspect for the build I'm putting together it'll end up being the 120-130gr's and shooting around 3000fps.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="WildRose, post: 497442, member: 30902"] My first thought would be , "what is your main goal for this rifle?". Do you want to go for extreme velocity, extreme accuracy, does barrel life matter? I thought for years about trying to build a 6.5 STW, but never got around to it. Now that I'm all grown up, and understand that I have to live on a budget, I have instead opted to build a .260 rem. Anything I own, I will shoot and shoot a lot so cost of ammo, availability of components, availability of good factory ammo, and barrel life matter a lot to me. From the mild end you have the 6.5 Lapua, on the extreme end you have the .264 win mag or 6.5 STW. Me I'm just going to spend my first thousand rounds of .260 trying to find the sweet spot between velocity and accuracy and I suspect for the build I'm putting together it'll end up being the 120-130gr's and shooting around 3000fps. [/QUOTE]
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