Why do people think the 6.5 -.284 is any better than the regular .284 Win.?

[BULLBLASTER]

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A 6.5-284 Norma followed me home from the gun store last week.
I sure hope I can get it sighted in before the barrel is burned out. 
Maybe we can bring this one back to life?

[coachcw]

Tell us more is she Purdy ? I just ordered some parts for a 260 today.

[BULLBLASTER]

Tell us more is she Purdy ? I just ordered some parts for a 260 today.

Savage long range hunter.
About as purdy as a factory savage gets I guess. 

I need to save some pennies to put some glass on and buy reloading components tho! 
Can't wait to shoot it.

[Karl Blanchard]

I'm gonna be working up a load for Whit's 6.5 this spring.  Will be interesting to see what kind of speed I can milk out of it.  What's the twist on the LR savage?

[BULLBLASTER]

I'm gonna be working up a load for Whit's 6.5 this spring.  Will be interesting to see what kind of speed I can milk out of it.  What's the twist on the LR savage?

It's an 8 twist. What rifle is whits?
You gonna use the vld?

[yorketransport]

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A 6.5-284 Norma followed me home from the gun store last week.
I sure hope I can get it sighted in before the barrel is burned out. 
Maybe we can bring this one back to life?

 

The 284 Winchester is better!

[Karl Blanchard]

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A 6.5-284 Norma followed me home from the gun store last week.
I sure hope I can get it sighted in before the barrel is burned out. 
Maybe we can bring this one back to life?

 

The 284 Winchester is better!

 

[Karl Blanchard]

I'm gonna be working up a load for Whit's 6.5 this spring.  Will be interesting to see what kind of speed I can milk out of it.  What's the twist on the LR savage?

It's an 8 twist. What rifle is whits?
You gonna use the vld?

savage 111 I think and ya, 140 vld

[coachcw]

That 111  may like the 130 abs,  my hot loads opened up a bit in her .

[BULLBLASTER]

I'm hoping to try the 142 ablr. Or the 143 eld x
Second choice would be 130 ablr.
No idea what powder I'll try. I have time to research and collect crap.

[Karl Blanchard]

That 111  may like the 130 abs,  my hot loads opened up a bit in her .

  Good to know.  I wish I had some 6.5 stuff laying around to play with.  My have to keep my eye out on shooters for some seconds.

[yorketransport]

Go straight to the 160 matrix bullets! Run the 140s at the very least. I'm getting 2840 fps with the 140s from my 30" barreled 6.5 Lapua so you should easily hit 2950 with your 6.5x284. That's would be a pretty impressive load.

[opdinkslayer]

I'm hoping to try the 142 ablr. Or the 143 eld x
Second choice would be 130 ablr.
No idea what powder I'll try. I have time to research and collect crap.

 Hey Bull, I got the savage 116 lr fluted 6.5 and they just flat shoot. It was responsible for a WY muley changing adresses from 600 yds this past fall with an 18 yr old kid behind the trigger for the very 1st time. I put a Zeiss conquest 6.5-20 on her and worked up a load of a 140 berger vld over 57.0 gr Retumbo. It shoots sub .500 consistantly at 100 and sub moa at 300 yds. I've heard H1000 is also a go to powder. I might play with those new Hornady ELD-X's as well just to see what they will do. Good luck!

[BULLBLASTER]

That's good to hear the heavies work well with retumbo. I have a good amount of that at home. What oal are you running them at opdink? There's sure a lot of room in the mag to seat them long!
Thanks

[b23]

Another powder that's showing promise with the heavy for caliber 6.5 bullets is RL26. 

I've got a 6.5-284 barreled action I did some horse trading for this past fall. It has a trued Rem 700 LA and a 26in 1-8tw Shilen CM barrel.  Shilen barrels aren't really at the top of favs list and their CM barrels are even further down so only time will tell how well it shoots.  Having it all put together and bedded into a HS Prec. Sendero take off stock that they shortened up to fit my 13 daughter.  Berger 140's and RL26 is what I'll be trying first when it's all done, which will be any day now.  If this barrel shoots well, I'll have it threaded for a new SAS Barricade that's currently in ATF jail and if it doesn't, well, I guess I can make a jack handle out of it and hang a new Hart barrel on it.  Funny how those hodgepodge "good deals" often end up costing you more than if you'd have just done it right from the beginning.  Hopefully, I get lucky on this one.