What's your favorite 6.5-284 load for 300-600 yard shooting.
What's your favorite 6.5-284 load
- Thread starter HawkeyeJoe
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Why yes I did. I got 6 Nosler factory rounds off before the bulldozer arrived to fix the Berm. I love the way it shoots.It tracks very nice in the bags.And less recoil than expected.I hope to have all my reloading supplies by the weekend.
Spotcheck_Billy
HawkeyeJoe said:
I've settled on this load for all my 6.5-284 shooting:
Lapua brass
139 gr. Scenar seated .010" into the lands
48.5 gr. H4350
CCI BR-2 primers
I'm sure that I could go hotter, but this load seems to have hit a sweet spot in my 30" Bartlein 1/8.5" twist 5R barrel.
I'm also working with 51-52 gr. H4831sc and 142 SMKs' but for some reason this barrel likes the 4350/Scenar load a bit better. At this point I really don't want to use up half the accuracy life of the barrel searching for the elusive "perfect load" when I'm pretty satisfied with what I already have
Well, with the new barrel and new chamber reamer it is
Lapua brass
Lapua 139 gr Scenar seated .005" into the lands
48.5 gr H4350
CCI primer
I don't bother to use bench rest primers and have still achieved an ES of 8 and an SD of 3. However I have a case of that particular lot # of primers.
One safety factor to note, since I use a standard length action and a custom order reamer and thus seat the bullets for a COL well over 3.00",not at home and I don't recall how far) the powder might be a bit much for a shorter COL.
Lapua brass
Lapua 139 gr Scenar seated .005" into the lands
48.5 gr H4350
CCI primer
I don't bother to use bench rest primers and have still achieved an ES of 8 and an SD of 3. However I have a case of that particular lot # of primers.
One safety factor to note, since I use a standard length action and a custom order reamer and thus seat the bullets for a COL well over 3.00",not at home and I don't recall how far) the powder might be a bit much for a shorter COL.
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