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What 6.5 to chamber in?
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<blockquote data-quote="akhunter" data-source="post: 339159" data-attributes="member: 9018"><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">Dan, I have a long and short 700 action and have been debating for some time on what 6.5 to build. The long action is a standard bolt face and the short action I will have to get a bolt from PTD so it could be ordered to suit. I think if I was to use the long action I would certainly go with the 6.5x06AI. My main hunting rifle is a 300SAUM and a couple weeks ago shot my second elk in two years at 600 yards and I'm definitely hooked on long range shooting. I need another long distance gun like I need a hole in the head. But a gun gets boring and I really enjoy the work up process of a new gun/load. I heard of a guy making a 6.5 X 300SAUM and it supposedly shot real well. I'm also leaning towards shooting 120/130 grain bullets from it. I'm not sold on the VLD's as a hunting round. Out of 15 big game animals taken the last couple years with X and tipped X bullets I've only found 3 bullets. The rest were all pass thoughts. I don't know how a guy could ask for better performance. Anyway I'm enjoying learning about the various 6.5's out there and one day I need to just make up my mind and get the gun built.</span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">Phil in Alaska</span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="akhunter, post: 339159, member: 9018"] [COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana]Dan, I have a long and short 700 action and have been debating for some time on what 6.5 to build. The long action is a standard bolt face and the short action I will have to get a bolt from PTD so it could be ordered to suit. I think if I was to use the long action I would certainly go with the 6.5x06AI. My main hunting rifle is a 300SAUM and a couple weeks ago shot my second elk in two years at 600 yards and I'm definitely hooked on long range shooting. I need another long distance gun like I need a hole in the head. But a gun gets boring and I really enjoy the work up process of a new gun/load. I heard of a guy making a 6.5 X 300SAUM and it supposedly shot real well. I'm also leaning towards shooting 120/130 grain bullets from it. I'm not sold on the VLD's as a hunting round. Out of 15 big game animals taken the last couple years with X and tipped X bullets I've only found 3 bullets. The rest were all pass thoughts. I don't know how a guy could ask for better performance. Anyway I'm enjoying learning about the various 6.5's out there and one day I need to just make up my mind and get the gun built.[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana][/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana]Phil in Alaska[/FONT][/COLOR] [/QUOTE]
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