What’s so great about 6.5 ?

[twinin]

It has been my experience that a can screwed on the end of a barrel turns a good load into a great load.
Maybe it’s more mass at the end of the barrel to help tune it. Or, maybe it’s the human element with the shooter having less recoil and noise allowing him to focus more on the shot.

Helps me shoot better for sure

 

[Jstudz220]

It has been my experience that a can screwed on the end of a barrel turns a good load into a great load.
Maybe it’s more mass at the end of the barrel to help tune it. Or, maybe it’s the human element with the shooter having less recoil and noise allowing him to focus more on the shot.

I’ve always found the suppressor part of this conversation interesting. Depending on who you talk to a suppressor will either be like screwing some magical wiz bang device onto your gun that turns it into a sub moa tac driver. Then the other half will swear that a suppressor will turn a sub moa gun into a barley acceptable “combat accuracy” only type of gun. So which is it? Do we have data that would prove one statement truer than the other?

 

[mickey]

I’ve always found the suppressor part of this conversation interesting. Depending on who you talk to a suppressor will either be like screwing some magical wiz bang device onto your gun that turns it into a sub moa tac driver. Then the other half will swear that a suppressor will turn a sub moa gun into a barley acceptable “combat accuracy” only type of gun. So which is it? Do we have data that would prove one statement truer than the other?

Data on paper, no. Only can tell you what I have observed with a lot of time behind a bolt gun shooting competitively over 10 years.

The only thing I generally keep is load development target groups (with varying charge increments and distance from the lands) of when I first get a new barrel screwed on an action. If I’m going to be shooting that particular rifle suppressed, I’ll do load development with a can. But generally, my observation has been what I stated above.
I have seen a suppressor make a rifle shoot considerably worse though. In that case it was an AAC SDN6 on a .308. Lockup in the QD on those cans are terrible and definitely do not belong on a precision rifle.

 

[gejshooter]

The 6.5 is the hot caliber. The .308 is the old school tried and true caliber. Both are excellent calibers. The .308 will deliver more energy at point of impact. The 6.5 has better potential accuracy at long range. I say potential, because no one shot is the same as the next shot. The one consistent negative I have heard about 6.5 is that the round is so fast, that it often does not do as much internal tissue damage as the .308. With the 6.5, shot placement may be more critical. For me, hunting in south Mississippi, I would choose the .308. Most shots are relatively close (under 300 yards).

 

[highstandard40]

The velocity of the 6.5 is not the issue if you are not getting internal tissue damage. The issue is improper bullet selection. All things being equal, higher velocity will give more tissue damage, not less.

 

[geeck]

6.5 CM is like the new shiny fishing lure, that are designed to catch fishermen not fish. It's amazing what a few well placed stories in gun magazines can do for what amounts to a retreaded 6.5 Swede

 

[AK shooter]

6.5 CM is like the new shiny fishing lure, that are designed to catch fishermen not fish. It's amazing what a few well placed stories in gun magazines can do for what amounts to a retreaded 6.5 Swede

Exactly!

 

[highstandard40]

Exactly!

Agreed. But if manufacturers introduced rifles chambered in the Swede it likely wouldn't sell well. So they created a new nitch.

 

[AK shooter]

Agreed. But if manufacturers introduced rifles chambered in the Swede it likely wouldn't sell well. So they created a new nitch.

I know. When the Winchester short magnum came out I bought one. It was overkill for where I hunt. Ammo is $40 to $50 a box. Now it sits not being used.

 

[geeck]

Agreed. But if manufacturers introduced rifles chambered in the Swede it likely wouldn't sell well. So they created a new nitch.