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Weatherby Vanguard HighCountry 6.5 PRC
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<blockquote data-quote="new2mud" data-source="post: 1974416" data-attributes="member: 24831"><p>Again, more assumptions being spread that scares others off unnecessarily. I never said I was loading to 2.945"—that's the factory Hornady load.</p><p></p><p>I'm closing in on 900 rounds on this barrel. My accuracy hand load for the 147 ELD-Ms still has 0.050" (yes—50 thousandths) to grow before I hit mag length limitations. Based on throat erosion to date, I won't hit that within the life of this barrel. And there is no indication that the factory Hornady 147 load will fall off the cliff within the next 900 rounds.</p><p></p><p>Additionally, 3050 FPS is hardly limiting me on velocity due to less powder capacity due to deeper seating, which is another commonly heard argument that just hasn't panned out. Would love to hear from others who have actual experience with this.</p><p></p><p>Apologies to the OP since this was intended to be a Vanguard related thread. However, invariably someone will chime in that a SA is a crippling compromise for 6.5PRC and these blanket claims just aren't applicable for all instances. Although it does appear to hold true for historical factory Vanguard bottom metal (which hardly represents all SA use cases).</p><p></p><p>I am certainly no trail blazer but I took what I thought may be a "risk" on going the SA route (based on all the naysayers who didn't actually have first hand experience), but it has worked out wonderfully. Thankfully many of these newer generation of bullets are very accommodating of longer jumps than we are used to, and modern powders enable some pretty great performance.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="new2mud, post: 1974416, member: 24831"] Again, more assumptions being spread that scares others off unnecessarily. I never said I was loading to 2.945”—that’s the factory Hornady load. I’m closing in on 900 rounds on this barrel. My accuracy hand load for the 147 ELD-Ms still has 0.050” (yes—50 thousandths) to grow before I hit mag length limitations. Based on throat erosion to date, I won’t hit that within the life of this barrel. And there is no indication that the factory Hornady 147 load will fall off the cliff within the next 900 rounds. Additionally, 3050 FPS is hardly limiting me on velocity due to less powder capacity due to deeper seating, which is another commonly heard argument that just hasn’t panned out. Would love to hear from others who have actual experience with this. Apologies to the OP since this was intended to be a Vanguard related thread. However, invariably someone will chime in that a SA is a crippling compromise for 6.5PRC and these blanket claims just aren’t applicable for all instances. Although it does appear to hold true for historical factory Vanguard bottom metal (which hardly represents all SA use cases). I am certainly no trail blazer but I took what I thought may be a “risk” on going the SA route (based on all the naysayers who didn’t actually have first hand experience), but it has worked out wonderfully. Thankfully many of these newer generation of bullets are very accommodating of longer jumps than we are used to, and modern powders enable some pretty great performance. [/QUOTE]
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