horsemen61
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Ok guys like the title says would you get one to hunt with 6.5 PRC?
6.5 PRC would you get one to hunt with?
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someguy2800
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Its a little overbore for my tastes, but that's just personal preference. Its certainly going to be effective, 143 grain ELDX at 3000 fps is no joke. Should be lightning on deer if your hunting longer shots. I would be concerned about getting a tough enough bullet for it at short ranges.
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Same.
Would need to justify needing ~ 200 fps more than the 6.5x55.
Maybe for very long range work, that I don't do, with a special purpose-built rig, which I don't have.
GR
On deer I think the 143eldx would be fine even at shorter range.
If I'm willing to flatten (not mushroom) primers, I can scratch 3k with my 6.5-284, and Ive taken one 500lb critter, and a few smaller ones inside of 50yds.
I'd probably opt for a bonded, or monometal, we're I going to make a habit of shooting bigger critters tho.
Need it or not, I'd rather have it and not need it than the other way around. The old argument about flatter shooting rounds having advantages and all that.... especially when comparing like bullets.
Personally I'd be tempted to try some 120-130s and see where i could get those to.
The x55 also doesn't fit in short actions, and while others aren't concerned about cartridges or actions matching, it bugs me when I have too much, or little, of either. It's one of 3 cartridges I wouldn't mind having in a t3, simply because all you get are long actions lol.
Garandimal
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A 125 gr. NP or 120 gr. TTSX...?
Would be a death-ray.
...Phased-plasma, in the 40 Watt range.
GR
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Anything the belted 7mm Rem Mag has been doing for 50+ years, the 6.5 PRC will do.
I have LOVED the 7mm Rem Mag for many years, but I can’t responsibly recommend one in 2019 and beyond. My only concern with the 6.5 PRC is brass availability - which is largely irrelevant for a hunting rifle; buy 500 now and that will last multiple lifetimes.
Personally, I’ve also moved away from the 7mm Rem Mag class - for longer range hunting, I’d rather have a 300RUM or 338 Edge/PEDGE/RUM. The 7mm Rem Mag or 6.5 PRC are dandy 0-700yrd elk rifles, farther in the right hands, right rifle, and right conditions, have been and always will be. But I’ve found value in extra weight and powder to anchor game faster at range. Just not always easy to spot where EXACTLY they travel and potentially lay blood trail from a half mile away.
I have LOVED the 7mm Rem Mag for many years, but I can’t responsibly recommend one in 2019 and beyond. My only concern with the 6.5 PRC is brass availability - which is largely irrelevant for a hunting rifle; buy 500 now and that will last multiple lifetimes.
Personally, I’ve also moved away from the 7mm Rem Mag class - for longer range hunting, I’d rather have a 300RUM or 338 Edge/PEDGE/RUM. The 7mm Rem Mag or 6.5 PRC are dandy 0-700yrd elk rifles, farther in the right hands, right rifle, and right conditions, have been and always will be. But I’ve found value in extra weight and powder to anchor game faster at range. Just not always easy to spot where EXACTLY they travel and potentially lay blood trail from a half mile away.
Yeah, those would do the trick nicely, and for lighter stuff like our 60-200lb sheep and deer, 129ablrs or Interbonds or would offer a slightly softer option.
troy fairweather
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i handled a new mauser m18 in 6.5 prc, it was a nice rifle. the prc is nice to, but i am waiting for a 7mm prc. just don't know if they will use the 6.5 case or the 300 case.
someguy2800
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I was thinking the same but that pretty much already exists in the 7mm WSM.
I thought that you already had a 7mm WSM.
How many red-headed stepchildren does one man need?
troy fairweather
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i have a browning 7wsm the m18 reminded me of it
troy fairweather
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i like the odd rounds, i really like the wsm's. it would be nice to see hornady behind a similar cartridge, you know they should make brass and ammo.
My 6.5 CM or 308 will kill anything I'll ever hunt at longer ranges than I have the skills to shoot. I'm sure it is a capable round, but I just don't need it. Same reason I sold my 300 and 7mm magnums and rarely even use the 30-06 anymore.
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I'd be happy if they just started producing 7mm WSM rifles again, preferably with something like an 8 twist. If they want to call it a PRC, I could probably live with that too.
troy fairweather
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i like the 7wsm very much, i found some ammo online or $16 a box, only have the money right now for 3 or 4 boxes. i think guy's run 180 with the 1-9 1/4 i loaded some 175s and they shot great.
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No. Not because it wouldn't be as effective a hunting round as a target round, especially given the vast selection of suitable bullets available, but because anything that will be killed by the 6.5 PRC will also be easily killed by the 7-08, or the 270 Win, neither of which will be as good a target cartridge as the 6.5 PRC. There are a vast array of accurate rifles in both 7-08 and 270 Win from $380 upwards and, for a hunting rifle, unlike if you forget your precision 6.5 handloads, 270 definitely and 7-08 likely will be on the shelf at Wally World.
6.5PRC seems like a great cartridge, but in a hunting rifle, ubiquity has its benefits. 6.5 Creedmoor may also be getting to the level of ubiquity where it may also be a good choice.
6.5PRC seems like a great cartridge, but in a hunting rifle, ubiquity has its benefits. 6.5 Creedmoor may also be getting to the level of ubiquity where it may also be a good choice.
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The the 6.5 Creedmoor to 6.5prc is kind of like the difference of the 7mm-08 to 284 Winchester.
I don’t see why you wouldn’t if you really want to. I use plenty of obscure cartridges for the pure fact that it’s different and fun. Just know unless you plan on taking long shots, there’s little advantage to outweigh the negatives of cost and scarce ammo.
If anything the 6.5prc seems almost identical to the 6.5-284 but under a new branding
I don’t see why you wouldn’t if you really want to. I use plenty of obscure cartridges for the pure fact that it’s different and fun. Just know unless you plan on taking long shots, there’s little advantage to outweigh the negatives of cost and scarce ammo.
If anything the 6.5prc seems almost identical to the 6.5-284 but under a new branding
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Personally, I would state the opposite here. Ubiquity would matter more for me in a cartridge I shoot excessively to the point reloading may be difficult to keep up with. For hunting, if a guy can find a line on 500 brass, that rifle would never - ever - even after multiple owners, need to be resupplied.
But I’m biased. Most of the rifles I’ve used in the last decade - about a hundred rifles - have never tasted a factory round, ever. So I don’t measure the worthiness of my hunting cartridges based on Walmart inventory. I recognize some folks might.
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You get to Outer Mongolia and your home rolls were pilfered on the way, ubiquity will have its benefits when you can get what you need at Khan-Mart.
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I’ve taken firearms internationally 5 different times for hunts. This benefit is ridiculously exaggerated online.
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Not sure if the snark/snide is directional.
I too have hunted internationally and flown domestically to hunt. And have done so with esoteric rifles. And the fact is that anyone who has ever flown, period, knows that things do go missing. I can't see how one can exaggerate about arriving in Timbuktu with one's rifle chambered in 7mm Blitzen but no ammo. It only has to happen once to make a balls up of your hunt. You can discount it on the grounds of percentage of likelihood but you cannot deny that if it happens, ubiquity will be to your benefit.
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