NitroX
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| 14/05/21 05:58 PM |
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Re: Another Christoph Funk but in 6.5 x 68 RWS
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6.5x68S(Schuler) is an excellent round.
As I wrote before, calling the 6.5x68 and 8x68S “Schüler” is just plain wrong. Both cartridges were developed by RWS in the late 1930s. R. Schüler, Suhl, was not involved in the development. Maybe some American “expert” encountered a Schüler made rifle in one of those chamberings post-WW2 and attached the misspelled “Schuler” to the cartridges.
For those of us without keyboards having an "umlaut" key, the use of an e after the vowel does the job so the German "Schüler" is spelled "Schueler", with non German keyboards.
And yes, while the 6.5x68 is related by its brass case to the 8x68S, the 6.5x68 has no S, as the 8x68S, the S relates as it usually does in any 8mm, to a .323 bore size/bullet size.
A fire cracker of a cartridge, preceeded the similar ballistics .264 Win Mag by several decades.
For chamois, a 93 gr projectile at some 4000 fps or more.
I'd love to give it a go on feral goats in the mountains, provided a 90 to 100 gr bullet was not too fragile.