6.5CM out of Circulation

[OutdoorEdventure]

Pulled a bunch of old 6.5CM bullets over the weekend. Amazing how quickly some bullets fall out of circulation.

 

[prm]

What is the round nose, second from left?

 

[DangerRanger]

I love the look of a bullet with an enormous silver tip

 

[Nine Banger]

I think its this?

6.5mm .264 160 gr InterLock® RN - Hornady Manufacturing, Inc

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www.hornady.com

What is the round nose, second from left?

 

[Unckebob]

What is the black tipped bullet?

The second one from the left looks the the JFK bullet.

 

[OutdoorEdventure]

I love the look of a bullet with an enormous silver tip

I think its this?

6.5mm .264 160 gr InterLock® RN - Hornady Manufacturing, Inc

...

www.hornady.com

Correct Hornady 160 RN. I purchased a few hundred rounds about a decade ago. Still fun to shoot.

 

[OutdoorEdventure]

I love the look of a bullet with an enormous silver tip

Not sure what the arrangements were but the original company stopped making them the same year Hornady started producing their variation of an aluminum tip bullet.

 

[Nine Banger]

Correct Hornady 160 RN. I purchased a few hundred rounds about a decade ago. Still fun to shoot.

I picked up 2 boxes to shoot subsonic but they keyholed at 100 yards so I shot the rest up plinking.

I wish I had shot a deer with them to compare with match bullet wounds.

I switched to 140gr Speer Hot Cor for subsonic loads.

 

[180ls1]

I picked up 2 boxes to shoot subsonic but they keyholed at 100 yards so I shot the rest up plinking.

I wish I had shot a deer with them to compare with match bullet wounds.

It may not have been that bullet but I saw a guy test one (or its twin brother) on gel and it was impressive.

 

[OutdoorEdventure]

I picked up 2 boxes to shoot subsonic but they keyholed at 100 yards so I shot the rest up plinking.

I wish I had shot a deer with them to compare with match bullet wounds.

I switched to 140gr Speer Hot Cor for subsonic loads.

I ran these subsonic no issue. What’s Twist Rate?

 

[Nine Banger]

I ran these subsonic no issue. What’s Twist Rate?

1:8 Desert Tech SRS A2 w/ 18" barrel.

I may have misused the word keyholed and meant yawed...

I doubt the bullets were yawing at muzzle but were definitely doing so at 100 yds so I stopped because I figured an end cap strike was inevitable.

I'm at sea level and bullets start cracking around 1064fps.