6.5x55 reamer choice

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Starting out on a precision rifle project in 6.5x55mm Swedish Mauser. Just acquired a Bartlein barrel blank and I am thinking I do not want to go with a regular, sloppy SAAMI chamber. Soliciting advice on what direction I should take with a custom reamer. Neck turn, or no neck turn, and all that jazz.
 
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Contact Gary Eakin (thereamerguy@yahoo.ca) he can geat you the answers that you need . He is the canadian dist for ptg reamers and tooling. Also a awesome guy to talk to and deal with.
 
asa said:
Contact Gary Eakin (thereamerguy@yahoo.ca) he can geat you the answers that you need . He is the canadian dist for ptg reamers and tooling. Also a awesome guy to talk to and deal with.
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I have dealt directly with Pacific Tool & Guage (PTG) before, and found them to be excellent.
 
I would suggest a fairly short throat, no neck turn, minimum chamber for Lapua brass, it will work well with 120-140 grain bullets and can always be throated longer if required.
 
guntech said:
I would suggest a fairly short throat, no neck turn, minimum chamber for Lapua brass, it will work well with 120-140 grain bullets and can always be throated longer if required.
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That's the kind of advice I am looking for, thanks very much. My intention is to shoot the 140 grain bullets (probably Berger VLD) with Lapua brass.
 
I designed mine for Lapua brass. I used a .298 neck and almost 0 freebore for 140 gr. VLD's. The rest of the case is SAMMI spec'd. Shoots very well and cases come out right. No bulging anywhere.
 
CV32 said:
I have dealt directly with Pacific Tool & Guage (PTG) before, and found them to be excellent.
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Your price will likely be slightly better with Gary since he has regular orders in from PT and G. He also speaks with Dave Kiff on a regular basis. AKAIK they keep copies of the drawings from every reamer they grind. If you give Kiff details on what you want to do he will usually have a print already from someone else looking to do the sameish thing
 
juanvaldez said:
Your price will likely be slightly better with Gary since he has regular orders in from PT and G. He also speaks with Dave Kiff on a regular basis. AKAIK they keep copies of the drawings from every reamer they grind. If you give Kiff details on what you want to do he will usually have a print already from someone else looking to do the sameish thing
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Yeah, I've already been exchanging emails with Dave Kiff regarding the matter.
 
JGS to me make the best reamers I have seen little more expensive that others but worth every cent,and you get what you ordered,
manitou
 
Well, after talking to Dave Kiff at PTG, and reading posts like those appended below, I am starting to second guess myself and thinking maybe 6.5x55AI really is the way to go. Am I wrong?

alberta tactical rifle said:
If no competition work use is the plan then the AI has great merit. Slightly greater case capacity is nice, especially for shooting the heavier bullets, but the number or reloadings you get from a casing is unreal on the AI version. Lapua brass is not cheap and to get 30 or 40 reloadings from a casing makes it all the less expensive to shoot. I have a client who has over 60 reloadings from the same casings and is still going. Personally mine only has 41 reloads. Now just to be clear, part of this equation is the chamber in the rifle, the load as well as the sharp shoulder, not just the shoulder alone.
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Eagleye said:
I have a custom Sporter built on a Remington 721 action, sporting a Lothar-Walther barrel in a 1-8" twist chambered in 6.5x55 AI. It is bedded into a Grey-Laminate Remington 700 Stock. [Guntech on here did the work] I am very happy with this chambering. The AI case is a much nicer design for the reloader than is the stock case due to the negligible taper. You do not have to FL resize anywhere nearly as often, and trimming is practically eliminated, unlike the parent 6.5x55. The gain is about 100-150 fps, depending on the bullet being used. Very, very close to 6.5-284 performance, but with a bit less powder. My powder choices include: N560, Norma MRP, H4831SC, IMR7828, Reloder 19 & 22. With the 139/140 grain bullets, 2970 is close to max working pressures in my rifle. It regularly shoots 5 into ½ moa, using a quality bullet. I believe this is worth doing on a modern action, but am not sure about the surplus actions. Regards, Eagleye.
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Yes you are wrong. Unless you have the ability to actually measure a reamer (and send it back) then I suggest you order from JGS. Call them and tell them what you want. You will certainly pay more and wait longer but you will get a reamer that cuts what the print says and you can buy dies for!
 
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