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DarylS
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Re: Best 6.5mm Cartridges: 6.5x55 Swedish Mauser
07/12/21 03:03 PM

John - a while back (few decades) I re-read the article in one of P.O. Ackley's books (#1 I think) about an Wildcatting experimenter named Arch. Arch had his own version of an improved 6.5x55 for the Swedish Mauser rifles, but had experimented with one opened up to .264 Win.Mag. & noted the
old 96 action was a lot stronger than people gave it credit for. The 98 was indeed an upgrade, in the large ring variety, due to the better gas handling in case of a pierced primer or case failure.
Well, I figured if he can do it, so can I.
I got my buddy's reamer and opened mine up to 6.5x68.
Now, it was a 2 shot only, which was OK by me. The bolt would "just" close over a round sitting a little bit cock's eyed in the magazine.
The only drawback, was that to remove a chambered round, you had to pull the bolt out a bit. NP
I didn't work up full powered loads in it, but felt a 129gr. Hornady at 3,150fps of so, was fast enough.
Buddy Keith was running those at 3,300fps in his 6.5x68.
The only thing(s) I shot with it as a pair of snowshoe hares on the road, 210 and 220yards in front of us, one perfectly behind the other. One shot, 2 rabbits. Killed them both, DRT. It looked like 1/2 (base) of the bullet went through both shoulders of the second one, after bouncing off the road at approx. 215 yards from the truck.
edit: I forgot to mention, my rifle still had the 29" bl.
The 6.5x68 is one hell of a bunny round - 2 for one shot.

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Daryl

"a gun without hammers is like a Spaniel without ears" King George V

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Best 6.5mm Cartridges: 6.5x55 Swedish Mauser	Ripp	04/12/21 03:41 AM
Re: Best 6.5mm Cartridges: 6.5x55 Swedish Mauser	DarylS	04/12/21 05:31 AM
Re: Best 6.5mm Cartridges: 6.5x55 Swedish Mauser	Ripp	04/12/21 07:15 AM
Re: Best 6.5mm Cartridges: 6.5x55 Swedish Mauser	93x64mm	04/12/21 07:32 AM
Re: Best 6.5mm Cartridges: 6.5x55 Swedish Mauser	Marrakai	04/12/21 10:06 AM
Re: Best 6.5mm Cartridges: 6.5x55 Swedish Mauser	DarylS	04/12/21 11:00 AM
Re: Best 6.5mm Cartridges: 6.5x55 Swedish Mauser	szihn	04/12/21 01:35 PM
Re: Best 6.5mm Cartridges: 6.5x55 Swedish Mauser	Ripp	05/12/21 03:19 AM
Re: Best 6.5mm Cartridges: 6.5x55 Swedish Mauser	Northman	06/12/21 08:55 AM
Re: Best 6.5mm Cartridges: 6.5x55 Swedish Mauser	NitroX	07/12/21 01:19 PM
Re: Best 6.5mm Cartridges: 6.5x55 Swedish Mauser	Ripp	09/12/21 05:17 AM
Re: Best 6.5mm Cartridges: 6.5x55 Swedish Mauser	Ripp	09/12/21 08:13 AM
Re: Best 6.5mm Cartridges: 6.5x55 Swedish Mauser	DarylS	09/12/21 08:53 AM
Re: Best 6.5mm Cartridges: 6.5x55 Swedish Mauser	Ripp	09/12/21 09:33 AM
Re: Best 6.5mm Cartridges: 6.5x55 Swedish Mauser	NitroX	09/12/21 11:46 AM
Re: Best 6.5mm Cartridges: 6.5x55 Swedish Mauser	Ripp	10/12/21 12:37 AM
Re: Best 6.5mm Cartridges: 6.5x55 Swedish Mauser	DarylS	10/12/21 02:59 AM
Re: Best 6.5mm Cartridges: 6.5x55 Swedish Mauser	Ripp	10/12/21 03:27 AM
Re: Best 6.5mm Cartridges: 6.5x55 Swedish Mauser	Ripp	10/12/21 03:29 AM
Re: Best 6.5mm Cartridges: 6.5x55 Swedish Mauser	93x64mm	10/12/21 08:31 AM
Re: Best 6.5mm Cartridges: 6.5x55 Swedish Mauser	DarylS	07/12/21 03:03 PM
Re: Best 6.5mm Cartridges: 6.5x55 Swedish Mauser	NitroX	08/12/21 04:27 PM
Re: Best 6.5mm Cartridges: 6.5x55 Swedish Mauser	DarylS	09/12/21 04:42 AM

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