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I'm gonna start reloading for 6.5cm soon and was wondering if you were to start from scratch what would you get, dies, brass ect. I have a 550 and reloaded a crap load of 223 and 9mm but nothing precision wise, it'll be for PRS style shooting with a 1:8 twist barrel

Thanks
 
any brass will be fine, Hornady is most common. Try to find some H4350, StaBALL 6.5, IMR 4451, RL16 for powder
 
Easy load should be in the ballpark of a 143gr ELDX bullet, H4350 around 41.5gr +/-. Whatever brass and primer - just load to that recipe and you should have a shooter. But there are other powders that cry out of testing too!
 
Lapua brass will be way more consistent than Hornady. 147g eldm and 41.5 g h4350 is the ticket for me. There is nothing I dislike more than neck turning and flash hole deburring.
 
To those folks who recommend ~41.5 what kind of speeds are you seeing?

I'm using 140gr bullets and my sweet spot seems to be around 40.6

Has anyone found that when they went to Lapua brass they had to reduce their load slightly due to case volume or has it been the same as Hornady etc?
 
Sniffer said:
To those folks who recommend ~41.5 what kind of speeds are you seeing?

I'm using 140gr bullets and my sweet spot seems to be around 40.6

Has anyone found that when they went to Lapua brass they had to reduce their load slightly due to case volume or has it been the same as Hornady etc?
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Velocity? My sweet spot is 42gr H4350 with a 143ELDX. I get around 2770fps.
 
The lapua has small primer pockets which I did not know when I ordered it. I was disappointed since small primers won't even light up my 223 loads properly all the time but no problem in my creed with 4831 not sure why.
 
Lee collet neck die, Redding body die and an in-line seater.
Very fool proof setup to get low runout ammo and not over work your brass.
Lapua brass, h4350, match primer and pick bullets depending on whether your mag feeding or single shot.
 
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Ltbull01 said:
Velocity? My sweet spot is 42gr H4350 with a 143ELDX. I get around 2770fps.
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Interesting.

With 140 ELD-Ms, Lapua brass and 42.1gr of H4350 I was getting ~2750fps...... and a ton of pierced primers.

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Accuracy wasn't good either. My 6.5CM seems to be somewhat of an anomaly in that it likes to be around 40.6gr or ~2640fps for good accuracy. This is 3 shots at 200M.

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joehunt said:
Lee collet neck die, Redding body die and an in-line seater.
Very fool proof setup to get low runout ammo and not over work your brass.
Lapua brass, h4350, match primer and pick bullets depending on whether your mag feeding or single shot.
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I use the same setup. Seems to work well.
 
Is anyone using a micrometer seating die they can recommend?

I'd like to upgrade and have found options from Forster, Redding & Wilson. Finding them in stock is another thing.......

I suspect there isn't much difference between them and it may simply come down to what I can actually get.
 
porpoise said:
The lapua has small primer pockets which I did not know when I ordered it. I was disappointed since small primers won't even light up my 223 loads properly all the time but no problem in my creed with 4831 not sure why.
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If your 223 is not getting good ignition, it may be because you are using ball powders and standard primers. A light bullet makes it worse.

Here are things that will improve ignition.

Stick powder
magnum primer (for ball powder)
heavier bullet
crimp
 
Sniffer said:
Is anyone using a micrometer seating die they can recommend?

I'd like to upgrade and have found options from Forster, Redding & Wilson. Finding them in stock is another thing.......

I suspect there isn't much difference between them and it may simply come down to what I can actually get.
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Between the Redding and Forster, get the Forster. Redding is harder to read, and needs a VLD stem purchase.
 
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