Happy 6/5 Day!

6.5 Grendel and Creedmoor fan here!

6.5 Grendel & 6.5x55 yes.

6.5 Creedmoor...meh.

6.5 PRC...Maybe

6.5x55

I finally built a 6.5 Grendel AR. It’s one of my favorite rifles.

I have a rifle chambered in 6.5X47 Lapua. Great cartridge.

I have several military rifles (a couple, most 'fiddled') and a CZ rifle all in 6.5x55mm. I am terribly amused by two of the very best and most widely suitable rifle cartridges were designed and used prior to the turn of the last Century. 7x57mm Mauser (1892) and 6.5x55mm Swede (1894). Now you mention it, I should have run a couple rounds through them today.

In 1944, my Pop celebrated his 26 birthday on a tanker crossing the English Channel. He said it was a fairly uneventful day but the Germans provided fireworks the next day!


Kevin

Two 6.5 CM's
260 Remington
6.5-06
6.5 x 6.8 wildcat AR

Yep,I like the 6.5mm's!

The only 6.5mm I have is a 26" barreled bolt action .264 Winchester Magnum.

Don't forget about the 6.5x50(Arisaka), I also have the 6.5x55, 6.5x47 and 6.5Grendel. I've found the 6.5 to be a pleasure to shoot and very accurate.

6.5 x 55..... Mod. 96 Swede. My favorite, and currently my only 6.5, since I sold both of the very nice, all original Mod. 96's I had. ..

6.5 Creedmoor X2 (Accuracy International AW, Kimber Montana)
6.5x47mm Lapua (Accuracy International AXMC)
6.5 PRC (Kimber Montana 8400 WSM)

I prefer .308 Win, .300 Win Mag, .338 Lapua Mag and .375 H&H Mag over all those above.

My first centerfire rifle was a milsurp M38 6.5X52mm Carcano carbine that my father purchased for me to use hunting with him and his milsurp .303 SMLE. It's among the oldest 6.5mm rifle cartridges.

Maybe I"ll get a 264 Win mag. someday. That would be nice, but already have one just 0.007" thinner

6.5 Grendel, 3 rifles
260 Rem, 1 rifle & 1 pistol
6.5 Creedmoor, 4 rifles
6.5 Norma, 1 rifle
6.5 Rem Mag, 1 rifle

All but my AR Grendel have harvested deer.

When I put it in a list like this, I think I need intervention.

So I guess the 30th of this month is Thirty Aught Six Day, In countries that list the day first...

Anybody thinking about purchasing a,
Weatherby 6.5-300 or Weatherby 6.5 RPM?

WisBorn said:

Anybody thinking about purchasing a,
Weatherby 6.5-300 or Weatherby 6.5 RPM?

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Not here, but a leopard? Now THAT barrel burner has been dancing in front of me for quite some time!

horsemen61 said:

HAPPY 6.5 Day!!!!!


Again another year has passed so have y’all got any new 6.5’s?

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I added two 6.5 PRC rifles so now have three 6.5 calibers in the set of.... I have no idea.

6.5x47mm Lapua
6.5 Creedmoor
6.5 PRC

The Lapua and PRC make a nice 6.5 set.

.260 Remington
.260 Ackley Improved (x 2)


Oh, and a 6.5 PRC, new in the last year.

lol, have had two genuine military swedes, additionally two USA comercial ones> one model 70 and one rem700 in 6.5 x555.
...one jap 6.5, ditched the creedmoor right off. (it shrieks in my us naval service damaged ears) but have the most usable in my feeble mind! of course the Grendel. ha!

CZ 550 6.5x55 here... it quickly became one of my favorite rifle cartridges to shoot and load for.



The Swedes were really on to something so many years ago, it’s too bad the US military didn’t see what Sweden’s military saw in the 26-bore.

Stay safe.