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    Quote Originally Posted by HKGuns View Post
    I rolled some additional 6.5 rounds.
    She's a laser at 100 with 123g ELDM, which is the target shown in this video. Still need to work on the load for 147g ELDM as the results were acceptable, not stellar.
    147s took me an eternity to get right... pretty much all loads were a fight, but now we're chuggin along.
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    Quote Originally Posted by markm View Post
    147s took me an eternity to get right... pretty much all loads were a fight, but now we're chuggin along.
    Keep in mind that Bryan Litz has called out the 147s as bad with BC variation, so your struggles may be the bullet itself, not the load. 143 and 140s were ok though.
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    Quote Originally Posted by B52U View Post
    Keep in mind that Bryan Litz has called out the 147s as bad with BC variation, so your struggles may be the bullet itself, not the load. 143 and 140s were ok though.
    Interesting and I didn't know that........But doubt I'm seeing that at only 100 yards. MarkM shoots at far longer distances however.
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    Quote Originally Posted by HKGuns View Post
    Interesting and I didn't know that........But doubt I'm seeing that at only 100 yards. MarkM shoots at far longer distances however.
    From personal experience, I have had stellar results at 100 yards with them, but just ok results at 800 to 1000 yards. 143 eldx seems better in my experimentation. Interestingly the same load produces great SDs and groups for both bullets. Using Alpha small rifle primer brass has been the key for good results for me.
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    Quote Originally Posted by B52U View Post
    From personal experience, I have had stellar results at 100 yards with them, but just ok results at 800 to 1000 yards. 143 eldx seems better in my experimentation. Interestingly the same load produces great SDs and groups for both bullets.
    Based on this information I'll just use my remaining stock of 147's and look at better options. Will probably still try to get them dialed in at 100, but they're shooting well enough to take game at 100 yards.

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    Interesting. There's a guy here at my work who spoke with the employees at Hornady and their personal favorite bullet is 143gr with 140 a close second.

    At 1300 yards, pretty much every 6.5 is squirrely as hell. Some days you can't miss, and some days you can't buy a hit.
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    Quote Originally Posted by markm View Post
    At 1300 yards, pretty much every 6.5 is squirrely as hell. Some days you can't miss, and some days you can't buy a hit.
    Is that still the case with something faster like 6.5 PRC?

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    Quote Originally Posted by HKGuns View Post
    Interesting and I didn't know that........But doubt I'm seeing that at only 100 yards. MarkM shoots at far longer distances however.
    I find this super interesting as well. It will be interesting if we start to notice this at 1,000+ yards. Good watch out. But 140's have been great in all guns, not true of the heavies.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Disciple View Post
    Is that still the case with something faster like 6.5 PRC?
    Never shot one. We've shot a wide variety of 6.5 past 1300 yards over the last year. And there's days where Sellier & Bellot's factory ammo, which needs 3 more mils than a hot ELDM load, will ring the gong like a champ. You just never know what you'll get at that distance on any given day.
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    6.5C Build finally Complete

    Had a competition with some shooting buds on Saturday, out in the wilderness with this rifle. We put one of those 4" poly shooting blocks on a large stick out at 260 yards. We wanted to go longer, but were forced to settle for only 260 as there were muzzle loaders hunting in the area where we planned to shoot longer.

    Everyone got one shot to hit the target, we were shooting my 123gr SST hand loads that chronograph at 2724 fps @ 36F filled with 43 grains of H4350.

    I took the first shot and made a cold bore hit that knocked the block back 20'. Nobody else in the group made a hit although one person hit the stick it was resting on about an inch below the target. A few were surprised by the smooth, clean SSA-E and pulled their shots as they were used to heavier triggers.

    This is a really accurate rifle.

    Last edited by HKGuns; 12-13-22 at 14:55.

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