Brother_Love
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I’ve come to love this caliber and it is accurate as can be with jacketed but I’m thinking of trying cast. I wanted to see if anyone else and what your results were.
Thank you
Thank you
No doubt about it Ian, I may even try that if it'll extend barrel life. My point is using slower CBs on a high velocity round, not limiting the potential of hard cast high BC CBs.The myth that CBs have to be BC-limited has been "busted" for over a decade, you just need to change your thinking from the traditional myopia of low-velocity, flat-point cast bullet designs. Dan of Mountain Molds has pushed 6mm and 7mm spire-point cast bullets over 3K fps with 2-MOA consistent accuracy, and measured very high BC via dual chronographs. I have no doubt that coated, cast bullets would nearly equal flat-base jacketed performance in the 6.5 CM, only giving up performance to the VLD boat-tail designs at extremely long range.
the biggest hurdle to the little-middle bores has been the designs.
your stuck in a take it or leave it situation with the designs, and up until recently the 6.5's have almost all been mil-surp type rifles with such varying throat and groove diameters no one could agree on what a design should look like.
IF someone were to build a decent 6.5 bullet it would probably still have to be cartridge specific.
and even at that gun type specific... you'd end up with 10 takers for each type.