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[ElDudarino]

My wife wants to start hunting this year. She has zero long gun experience. She is going to be shooting a 6.5 creed and I reload. Looking for a reasonably accurate but cheaper projo for practice inside 500yds, mostly inside 300. Don’t care really ballistics/wind wise being too similar to whatever we settle on for a hunting round as long as it groups well enough for practicing marksmanship/field shooting. Probably looking to buy around a thousand of them so if I could save .10-.15 a round over hunting rounds that are .45 or .50 per it would be worth it.

I have 8lbs of H4350 so that’s pretty much the powder I plan to use.

Anybody know what is a good value for this purpose?


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[2five7]

Speer Hot-Cor Bullets 264 Cal, 6.5mm (264 Diameter) 140 Grain Spitzer

Speer Hot-Cor Spitzer Flat Base bullets have a higher ballistic coefficient and are designed to retain velocity over distance. This pattern, coupled...

www.midwayusa.com

These should fit the bill at around $.29 each

 

[woods89]

Not sure what they go for right now but I got a pile of Hornady 140 BTHP awhile back. They've shot very well in my rifle, and they were a fair bit cheaper than Bergers.

 

[sndmn11]

Speer Hot-Cor Bullets 264 Cal, 6.5mm (264 Diameter) 140 Grain Spitzer

Speer Hot-Cor Spitzer Flat Base bullets have a higher ballistic coefficient and are designed to retain velocity over distance. This pattern, coupled...

www.midwayusa.com

These should fit the bill at around $.29 each

These are a good choice. I have almost a full box still, I think.

Sometimes the barnes match burners or hornady/midway blems pop up.

 

[Hondo64d]

Not sure what they go for right now but I got a pile of Hornady 140 BTHP awhile back. They've shot very well in my rifle, and they were a fair bit cheaper than Bergers.

+1 on the Hornady BTHP Match. Reasonable BC and very easy to get to shoot well.

John

 

[Mtnmilsurp]

I load 85 grain Sierra HPs over Hodgdon’s minimum charge of H4350 for my sons to practice in their 6.5x55s. I got the bullets super cheap and they shoot well for practice with negligible recoil.

 

[long hunter]

Always been a fan of practice with what you will hunt with.

 

[PantherCity]

+1 on the Hornady BTHP Match. Reasonable BC and very easy to get to shoot well.

John

I’ve shot a lot of these as well. I’ll load 143eldx, 140eldm and 140BTHP with same powder charge and I don’t even adjust the seating die. They are all really close.


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[woods89]

+1 on the Hornady BTHP Match. Reasonable BC and very easy to get to shoot well.

John

I've heard they aren't bad on tissue either, but I have no evidence to support that.

 

[Hondo64d]

I've heard they aren't bad on tissue either, but I have no evidence to support that.

I can’t remember shooting any critters with them but my son shot a caribou with them. Dead Caribou, but didn’t seem as destructive as the 140gr Berger Elite Hunter was for me on the same hunt.

John

 

[Formidilosus]

I've heard they aren't bad on tissue either, but I have no evidence to support that.

I can’t remember shooting any critters with them but my son shot a caribou with them. Dead Caribou, but didn’t seem as destructive as the 140gr Berger Elite Hunter was for me on the same hunt.

John

Yep. Hornady HPBT’s penetrate deeper on average, with a narrower wound channel than like weight Berger VLD’s.

 

[Lawnboi]

Hornady 6.5mm 140gr BTHP #26335

Product Information Caliber: 6.5mm Bullet Diameter: 0.264” Bullet Weight: 140 Grains OAL: 1.338" Bullet Style: Boat Tail Hollow Point G1 BC: 0.580 Part Number: 26335 Quantity: 100

www.bluecollarreloading.com

Friends don’t let friends pay Larry’s prices.

If your looking to save money on about any component you can stop searching midway

 

[doverpack12]

Hornady ELDM of your weight choice. I like 130 grain and feel that is the right balance of speed and bc. No need to change for hunting. Build her confidence and familiarity using the bullet you will hunt with.

 

[Steve300xcw]

Always been a fan of practice with what you will hunt with.

This......one load for everything

 

[david2duck]

The Barnes Match Burners are shooting well out of my savage 6.5cm

Barnes 6.5mm 140gr Match Burner

Product Information Caliber: 6.5mm Bullet Diameter: 0.264” Bullet Weight: 140 Grains OAL: 1.341" Bullet Style: Boat Tail Hollow Point G1 BC: 0.586 Part Number: 30230 or 31144 Quantity: 100 or 500

www.bluecollarreloading.com

 

[ElDudarino]

This......one load for everything

Why though? Say a barrel lasts 3k if you can save $.15 to $.25 over that round count that’s a $450-$750 savings and you basically paid for your rebarrel.

As long as your practice ammo groups small enough that you can tell misses are you and not the rifle/load, there really isn’t any benefit to shooting more expensive stuff just because. Dope isn’t gonna change much unless you use dramatically different projos. Hell, my dope for my 6.5 and 7RM hunting loads are never more then .2mil different out to 600 so I only memorized the 6.5 dope and use it on both guns.

I could maybe see the argument if you shot less than a couple hundred practice rounds a year since the savings wouldn’t really add up.


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[peaches]

Wish I had the $$$ to only shoot Barnes TTSX etc.

I usually pair SST's with same weight TTSX or plain Hornady SP with Partitions and poi is usually identical.

 

[woods89]

Why though? Say a barrel lasts 3k if you can save $.15 to $.25 over that round count that’s a $450-$750 savings and you basically paid for your rebarrel.

As long as your practice ammo groups small enough that you can tell misses are you and not the rifle/load, there really isn’t any benefit to shooting more expensive stuff just because. Dope isn’t gonna change much unless you use dramatically different projos. Hell, my dope for my 6.5 and 7RM hunting loads are never more then .2mil different out to 600 so I only memorized the 6.5 dope and use it on both guns.

I could maybe see the argument if you shot less than a couple hundred practice rounds a year since the savings wouldn’t really add up.


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I use the exact same load, just different COAL, from Berger Elite Hunters to the Hornady BTHP. Zero stays the same. If you do a fair bit of positional type of practice, Bergers get expensive.
Still like them for long range and hunting though.

 

[BLJ]

Hornady bullet 2nds

I have no affiliation with this place, I just get the emails. Hornday used to sell seconds out of their main office, on my traveling this summer I went to stop in and was told it moved to GILoan down the street. I stopped in an walked out with a bunch of XTP pistol bullets. ANYWAYS I ended up on...

www.rokslide.com

140 BTHP are $28 a box. $5 off per box if you buy 10 boxes.