6.5 Creedmoor/260 for Deer, Elk, and whatever else.....

[bigunit]

I might have to try h4350 again. Loaded up 6 of each 130 tgk and tmk with w760 to try a couple small ladders near max.

 

[thinhorn_AK]

16” 6.5CM with 130 TMK hit again today.

Basically 300 yards. My buddy got some wound pics I’ll post later, but I don’t have them on my phone yet.

The 130 TMK is brutal. Impact velocity was 2350 fps and organs were shredded. First hit lungs, second hit liver. Follow up shot was basically instantaneous. She went to front legs, then rolled over, kicked for a couple of seconds and that was it. No bullets were recovered, whatever was left passed through. Small exit holes in skin, barely visible, but massive damage in the torso and on entry wounds, making 3” wide holes in the ribs.

Shot from sitting position using tripod with pack as rear support. Stayed in the scope at 10x mag for the shots and watched impacts.

What MV are you getting with that bullet out of your 16” 6.5cm? I’m getting my 6.5 cut down and I’m going back and forth between 16.5 and 18”.

 

[AZ_Hunter]

What MV are you getting with that bullet out of your 16” 6.5cm? I’m getting my 6.5 cut down and I’m going back and forth between 16.5 and 18”.

2750 suppressed. It’s a warm load no doubt, but here’s my brass when firing this load in 100 degree AZ summer. Finishing up the batch I had 8 shots left. This brass was also a mix of twice and three times fired I think. It’s been a couple months… but definitely not all the same and not new. Also not annealed. In the last couple of months I now anneal after every firing and switched to one shot and not wet tumbling the lube off, which I used to do using conventional case lube. My ES has come down.

I am 100% fine with how the brass looks. Standard loading procedure, work your way up. The Hogdon manual if I recall correctly had 45.0 as max for a 130.

ETA: my fired cases from yesterday’s hunt are added.

 

[thinhorn_AK]

2750 suppressed. It’s a warm load no doubt, but here’s my brass when firing this load in 100 degree AZ summer. Finishing up the batch I had 8 shots left. This brass was also a mix of twice and three times fired I think. It’s been a couple months… but definitely not all the same and not new. Also not annealed. In the last couple of months I now anneal after every firing and switched to one shot and not wet tumbling the lube off, which I used to do using conventional case lube. My ES has come down.

I am 100% fine with how the brass looks. Standard loading procedure, work your way up. The Hogdon manual if I recall correctly had 45.0 as max for a 130.

ETA: my fired cases from yesterday’s hunt are added.

Nice, what powder are you using?

 

[Rockpicker]

I’m going to get off the H4350 tit and try Staball. I would like a good metering ball powder so I can load directly from the measure to the case.

How much different are the charge weights just throwing from the powder measure?

 

[General RE LEE]

How much different are the charge weights just throwing from the powder measure?

With a good metering ball powder, just a tenth of a grain.

I have an electronic measure that is laboriously slow dropping charges of extruded powders. With ball powders, I can adjust my hopper to dispense a few charges at the desired load and then simply put the mouth of the case right up to the measure. I can drop charges on a loading block of 50 in just a few minutes.