25x47 vs 6.5x47 for NRL Hunter

[Johnc427]

Ok this is making me lean hard towards a 25x47, 2754 makes power factor, and these are extremely consistent bullets.
https://www.hornady.com/bullets/rifle/25-cal-.257-138-gr-a-tip-match#!/

I just saw those. They would be incredible in a NRL rig but they're probably going to be $80-90 a box right?!

 

[762 ULTRAMAGA]

I just saw those. They would be incredible in a NRL rig but they're probably going to be $80-90 a box right?!

Yeah as opposed to $60-70 for Berger.
I'd only load them up for a match and practice with the eldms

 

[wind gypsy]

I like to keep 140s in my x47s around 2740-2770. I’d be worried that the same speed in a little smaller bore with the 138 ATIP that might have a long bearing surface might be pushing it?

 

[longrangehunterII]

I’ve shoot both the 25x47 and the 6.5x47…. The 25 wears a 27” Brux that I had Manson make me a custom reamer with a .195 free bore and I’m barely crunching 41.2 gr of H4350 with the 135 LRHT. I’m getting 2850 fps without any recoil in a 15.5 lb rig.

The 6.5x47 Thunder Ranch Rifle is a bit lighter at 14.5 lbs, and has been my duel purpose rifle now for ten years. I used to use a 123 Scenar but have switched to a 142 SMK to make power factor.

I don’t think you can go wrong with either round. Easy to make both shoot well, the slight edge to the standard 6.5x47 simply because of all the great bullet choices you have. And not be stuck to the three choices for the 25x47, or the two that I use.

The 6.5x47 TRR has a 24” bbl too. I run both with a APA Gen II break. That said I’ll have to look at Salmon River Solutions 5 port in Ti just for how light it is and see how it works.

The one downside that I found with the 25 CM was how deeply seated the bullet had to be seated to fit in a AI AW DBM. That can be eliminated with a longer throat, and the Unknown Munitions DBM they make.

In the end there’s a lot of choices out there cartridge wise….. I’ve seen guys like Jon, and Matt show up with factory guns and win anyways, so it’s the guy behind the rifle that cleans the stages vs that caliber is on the barrel.

 

[khuber84]

All my aw mags are 2.980 internal. My 25x47 is cut with 180 freebore. My coal is 2.830 with a 135 jumping 35k, 2.865" touching. The creedmoor case would be 2.935-2.940 ish touching lands in a 180fb chamber. This coal would run just fine in an AW mag as I run 65cm in aw mags with 153.5 Bergers at 2.945 coal, never am issue in near 2k rounds fired.