Twisted barrel in Wyoming has a reamer also.
That’s right where I am at too. Don’t want to waste barrel life fireforming. 6.5 Saum brass supply often isn’t great, and I don’t want to have to buy 5$ fire formed brass. I like the concept though.
Nothing too crazy. My wife has a rem 700 mountain 6.5 creed that shoots like crap. They are going to true the action. Open it up to magnum bolt, install m16 extractor, and install Wyatt’s prc mag box. Then it’s getting a threaded ace sp3 spiral fluted 20” 7.5 twist barrel. It’ll stay in the bell and Carlson stock until the rokstock comes out and then it’ll be bedded in one of those. I need to put my deposit down this week. They said the reamer will take about 3 months to get here and it should be done shortly after that. Part of me just wanted to call the rem 700 a wash and pick up another tikka and have it chambered up, but where I already have the action I’m about 500$ ahead to have it modified versus picking up another tikka.
I’m not sure you will get 3250 out of a 20” with 115’s. I shoot 115 VLD’s with rl26 right at 3200 in a 24” barrel, but that was with Hornady brass. My new load is a 108 eldm at 3250 with n565 in adg. The brass still kind of needs fire formed to fully seat the shoulder neck because a bushing just won’t go down far enough. With fire formed brass and same charge I lost about 50 fps. So I had to adjust my load after firing, but my brand new loaded rounds still shot great so you’re not completely wasting a round like the 6um.
That’s solid info. Thanks. I’ve never used hornady dies before, but I may order a set of their custom match dies for this project. I normally use Redding and I’m sure they are better, but hornady will build it based off the reamer so where I think a perfect neck down could take place. They are about 250$ so not much more than a set of Redding type s.
Copy that, thanks. I’ll likely use the 108 eldm or elite hunter then unless it really likes the 115s better.
Either way they are a pleasure to shoot! After yours is built let us know what you’re using and how it does!
I’m wondering the same thing. I’ve got a boatload of 570 I need to use so myself I’m hoping it doesn’t drop to Retumbo or h1000
If I end up just buying a 6.5 manbun instead and you just can’t stand the 570…well I’ll see if I’m taking a road trip past you anytime soon. I think I have about 11 pounds of h1000
What seating stem did you get to work with your 6.5 prc competition seater? I order the 6mm Redding stem for my 6.5 prc dies and it doesn’t fit, there is a ton of slop compared to the 6.5 stem.
