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Ernie Bishop
Optics Professional Joined: January/26/2010 Location: Gillette, WY Status: Offline Points: 765 |
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Posted: June/16/2012 at 22:33 |
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Finally got “Thunder” (6.5-06 Specialty Handgun) out to the range today for load development. This chamber has a tight neck (.290 neck), so neck turning was part of the case work up.
Using Remington 25-06 brass. The flash holes and burrs were terrible on some of the cases. I switched out the Timney for a Jewel, and replaced the Leupold VX-3 6.5-20 with ART for a FFP Leupold Mark 4 with ART, and added a sunshade. Modified the grip via Dremel Tool to take off some sharp edges at the top since it is a AR grip. I used H-4350 since I use it for all of my 6.5-284’s. Federal 210M primers. Tried 142 SMK’s first, got around ½ group(4-shot groups) to a tad under, but still wasn’t happy. Then I tried 130 grain Berger’s. Again no satisfaction. Next went to 140 A-Max’s. That Krieger likes 140 A-Max’s with 50.0 grains of H-4350 engaging the lands. I did all load development off of a bi-pod and my little rear field bag. Haven’t had time to chrono yet. Guessing from 2675-2750 fps. I'm a happy camper. |
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GetSome
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Wow... nice setup , and excellent results .
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cheaptrick
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Golly!! Nice shooting, Big E!
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Ernie Bishop
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Holland's built a really accurate rig!
Makes it kind of easy with quality components and quality workmanship. |
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cheaptrick
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At any rate, that's some fine shootin! Takes the singer and the song!
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Ernie Bishop
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Agreed.
Thank You! If I could shoot at that level, all the time, every day from a bi-pod I would feel pretty special |
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lucytuma
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Ernie, you really have some unique and awesome toys.
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dsr
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The hard part is doing it all the time that way. It will be interesting to see the results from long distance with that load. Good shooting, dsr |
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Alan Robertson
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Again, nice shootin' Ernie and nice setup. You sure have some fun stuff.
6.5- '06 is a great flavor, too. When I was a kid, an old timer gunsmith let me watch him reforge/bend my Mauser bolt handle and he praised the 6.5-'06 the whole time. He had his two personal rifles in that flavor racked in the shop and they were beauts! Been a fan ever since. |
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Ernie Bishop
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I shot the 6.5-06 in a short field match a couple of weeks ago, and I had to be at the upper end of pressure in my load development-bolt got sticky.
Chucking the Rem brass, and have Winchester on the way, and I will try H-4831sc. Still will do a work up with H-4350 with the new brass as well. So back to the drawing board with "Thunder." |
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Ernie Bishop
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In cool temps I confirmed drops out to 1K with it prone (3-days before the field match), and I was smacking steel consistently out to 900, then I missed some at 1000.
I think I missed one at 700 yards as well.
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Ernie
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