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What do ya'll think about a 6.5-375 Ruger?
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<blockquote data-quote="hammertyme" data-source="post: 910442" data-attributes="member: 12863"><p>Watching this thread for a long time now and I may have information that can be useful.</p><p> </p><p>In the 80's and 90's I tried time and again to get appreciable velocity increase from 06 AI case to the 06 Gibbs. Every American case failed period in 2-3 reloading's before I gained 100fps velocity increase. Pretty much gave up running those case hotter than AI load data.</p><p>Around the year 2000/2001 I was speaking with a case maker who made wildcat cases for his living. I told him of my Gibbs problem and he said that he had gone through the same problem with his 30 Gibbs until a couple years earlier someone turned him on to RWS cases and he never lost a case since. I started with a 280 Rem RWS case then a 7 X 65R case and after a year of trying to over load and destroy cases I started buying everything I could get my hands on.</p><p> </p><p>Precision, quality, dimensions= the best case I ever used! When Nosler cases came along the primer was no stronger. Norma cases in those days were somewhat better than American made cases but still never lasted as long as RWS.</p><p> </p><p>If you compare the case size of the 6.5 X 68 RWS case to the 375 Ruger case you find they are quite similar. I shot a 264 Winchester for years and was very disappointed in Velocity. I research and loaded to compare the 264 Win and the 6.5 X 68 and neither were worth the powder burn in my Specialty handgun length barrels. When the WSM cases came out a number of guys wildcatted up and down and the guys that went to the 6.5 WSM reported some very awesome ballistics but they quit on that wildcat as it ate barrels. SO I sat on the fence on my 6.5WSM project though I had the dies for a time. About 5 years ago I Nitrided my first barrel and then my second, then I built my 6.5WSM improved after reading the military reports that they were getting 60,000 rounds barrel life out of the M16 barrels.</p><p>I am currently at 1300 rounds out of the 6.5WSM and velocity is the same as @ 200 rounds and the 19" barrel is still bug holing (3500fps with 100gr partition). In all of these years I have yet to see one spot of rust on any Nitrided metal and the throat in that 6.5 is fine though it shows minor erosion. I guess 3-4 years ago I passed the Nitriding information on to the different sites and probably doesn't need to go in this particular spot. However Nitriding has allowed me longer life with standard cases with somewhat hotter loads than before I started with RWS cases.</p><p> </p><p>Huntington's is the only place I am aware of that has a good supply of $2.00 RWS cases.</p><p> </p><p>Neal</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="hammertyme, post: 910442, member: 12863"] Watching this thread for a long time now and I may have information that can be useful. In the 80's and 90's I tried time and again to get appreciable velocity increase from 06 AI case to the 06 Gibbs. Every American case failed period in 2-3 reloading's before I gained 100fps velocity increase. Pretty much gave up running those case hotter than AI load data. Around the year 2000/2001 I was speaking with a case maker who made wildcat cases for his living. I told him of my Gibbs problem and he said that he had gone through the same problem with his 30 Gibbs until a couple years earlier someone turned him on to RWS cases and he never lost a case since. I started with a 280 Rem RWS case then a 7 X 65R case and after a year of trying to over load and destroy cases I started buying everything I could get my hands on. Precision, quality, dimensions= the best case I ever used! When Nosler cases came along the primer was no stronger. Norma cases in those days were somewhat better than American made cases but still never lasted as long as RWS. If you compare the case size of the 6.5 X 68 RWS case to the 375 Ruger case you find they are quite similar. I shot a 264 Winchester for years and was very disappointed in Velocity. I research and loaded to compare the 264 Win and the 6.5 X 68 and neither were worth the powder burn in my Specialty handgun length barrels. When the WSM cases came out a number of guys wildcatted up and down and the guys that went to the 6.5 WSM reported some very awesome ballistics but they quit on that wildcat as it ate barrels. SO I sat on the fence on my 6.5WSM project though I had the dies for a time. About 5 years ago I Nitrided my first barrel and then my second, then I built my 6.5WSM improved after reading the military reports that they were getting 60,000 rounds barrel life out of the M16 barrels. I am currently at 1300 rounds out of the 6.5WSM and velocity is the same as @ 200 rounds and the 19" barrel is still bug holing (3500fps with 100gr partition). In all of these years I have yet to see one spot of rust on any Nitrided metal and the throat in that 6.5 is fine though it shows minor erosion. I guess 3-4 years ago I passed the Nitriding information on to the different sites and probably doesn't need to go in this particular spot. However Nitriding has allowed me longer life with standard cases with somewhat hotter loads than before I started with RWS cases. Huntington's is the only place I am aware of that has a good supply of $2.00 RWS cases. Neal [/QUOTE]
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