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To: Squantos

Yes! Also (and I'm scratching my head HARD to remember this!) there was a 6.5mm Swedish I "think". But it never realized it's full potential because the cartridge was underpowered for what it was capable of. Back in the 1950s, shooters were building strong bolt action rifles and chambering them for this Swedish cartridge and recording performance, but they couldn't get the likes of Winchester, and Remington (and others) to notice.


182 posted on 11/16/2005 7:07:46 PM PST by hiredhand (My kitty disappeared. NOT the rifle!)
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To: hiredhand

6.5x55...I have a remington 700 titanium I had rebarreled in that caliber , super ultra lite, 6X fixed power glass etc ....my favorite deer rifle.


184 posted on 11/16/2005 7:12:58 PM PST by Squantos (Be polite. Be professional. But, have a plan to kill everyone you meet. ©)
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To: hiredhand
I am sure the 6.5 Swedish Mauser or 6.5 Norwegian Krag could be loaded hotter than the old military loads but it is probably not necessary.

I bought one with the 29 inch barrel when I was 18, actually ordered it through the mail. I ordered some 160 grain fmj round nosed ammo at the same time and for that reason had to pick it up at railway express as the U.S. Mail would not ship ammo.

Those 160 grain bullets were extremely long with parallel sides and a round nose. The velocity was probably not very high because of the weight but those things would penetrate like a striped ape.

I went down to my Uncle's swamp and literally could not find a tree they would not shoot right through.

I now mostly use Lapua match which has a 144 grain pointed boat-tail @ 770 meters per second. Not a really hot load and will not penetrate as well because of the bullet shape but extraordinarily accurate.

I have probably owned a dozen 6.5 Swedish Mausers and have never run across one which was not accurate. Some are extraordinarily so.

187 posted on 11/16/2005 7:17:40 PM PST by yarddog
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