Cheap accurate 6.5 bullet?

In my own experience cheap and accurate bulets are oxymoron term. Either they are expensive and accurate or cheap and not accurate at least most of the time. Its the same as buying $4,99 shoes made in China at Wallmart and expect them to last 5 years....
 
gunrunner8 said:
In my own experience cheap and accurate bulets are oxymoron term. Either they are expensive and accurate or cheap and not accurate at least most of the time. Its the same as buying $4,99 shoes made in China at Wallmart and expect them to last 5 years....
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I will find out, I bought a bunch of prvi bullets, I look forward to seeing if they will group.
 
I'm on a waiting list for a group buy of a 6.5 mold. It's on the castboolits website, and I think the buy may be closing soon (look for the 6.5mm cruise missle). I have a few other molds from this manufacturer and they are totally awesome.
 
139 gr prvi hunting bullets, just seated to the cannalure, moly coated bullets and barrel, 47 gr CF7900 with rem primers shot a 3/4" group first try at 100 yards.
 
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Nosler ballastic tips are pretty cheap. I got some on the ee for a great price. You can find deals but hornady 140 interlocks at 34 a box is pretty cheap.
 
I got tired of seeing less accuracy than my rifle has potential to produce, just to save a few pennies per reload.
When every shot is carefully aimed, it gets frustrating not to know if ones misses are the result of the shooter, the conditions, or the bullet.
Hornady 140 Amax is not expensive, a few cents apiece more than, say, bulk Prvi 139's. Those Amax's do shoot lights out though, 1/2MOA'ish in the better of my 6.5's. Prvi's go three times that, at best. Relatively inaccurate, relatively poor BC too. Why bother?.

With a really accurate rifle/reload combo .... the tendency is to shoot less rounds in a session. You've soon done what you came to do, wearing a big smile, and still lots of primo ammo left in the box for the next time.
Irony is, some of us actually save money by spending 10 percent more per cartridge..

To shoot casually, in volume, and really cheap too ... that 'cruise missile' mold could be the cat's meow.

Whatever floats your boat ... all 6.5x55 trigger time is golden.

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vviking said:
I got tired of seeing less accuracy than my rifle has potential to produce, just to save a few pennies per reload.
When every shot is carefully aimed, it gets frustrating not to know if ones misses are the result of the shooter, the conditions, or the bullet.
Hornady 140 Amax is not expensive, a few cents apiece more than, say, bulk Prvi 139's. Those Amax's do shoot lights out though, 1/2MOA'ish in the better of my 6.5's. Prvi's go three times that, at best. Relatively inaccurate, relatively poor BC too. Why bother?.

With a really accurate rifle/reload combo .... the tendency is to shoot less rounds in a session. You've soon done what you came to do, wearing a big smile, and still lots of primo ammo left in the box for the next time.
Irony is, some of us actually save money by spending 10 percent more per cartridge..

To shoot casually, in volume, and really cheap too ... that 'cruise missile' mold could be the cat's meow.

Whatever floats your boat ... all 6.5x55 trigger time is golden.

:cheers:
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This elusive 1/2 MOA you speak of, I don't even shoot that we'll under the best conditions. I shoot with a 4 power fixed scope that is probably old enough to vote, and really only enjoy shooting offhand. I will try a rifle on the bench to find what it is capable of. After that I shoot offhand, and an extra MOA from my bullet choice is not really significant, when I get a 3-4 MOA group I am pretty happy. I am not looking to make targets to show off, just playing to improve my game.
 
Well OP, we all play this game our own way ... no offence intended, just my POV is all.

If I could shoot offhand even half as well as you do, no way would have been spending all this time belly down in the muck!! lol.

Good thread, got me to thinking ... a mold, free wheelweights, gaschecks, 20'ish grains of shotgun powder. Dirt cheap accurate 2000fps loads in bulk.
 
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Those cruise missile 170 gr cast bullets must be nice, and at 2000 fps you would be extremely well armed.
 
Like oats . . . cheaper oats can be had but they have been through the horse once.

You are further ahead to go with a known brand of bullets, Hornady, and if your rifle likes them, you can be fairly certain the process is repatable.

Cheap and accurate are not usually synonymous.
 
I got out to the range today with a bunch of 6.5x55 with prvi 140 gr bullets. I loaded them a bit light, the chrony said 2530 out of a 26" barrel, with a fixed 4x scope I shot a couple 2" groups. The load was 46.5 grains of CF 7900, which I thought would have been closer to 2700, but it was quite pleasant to shoot. This is the first time I have shot this rifle, and I did not have a proper rest, perhaps they will shoot better. Anyway, the 96 Mauser performed just as you would expect, and while I am happy with that for hunting, I will make a bit of effort to get 1" groups, maybe I can. As an added bonus, I got stuck in the snow leaving the range and had to get the chains out. They have ridden with me for over 4 years since I needed them.
 
Oh yea, I am smiling.. Bought the rifle last fall and the scope early in the winter, just mounted the scope and shot it. I bought 1000 of those bullets, so I can play for a while.
 
Also, this is my 3rd swede, I sold one to a buddy who really wanted it, and the other is an Ackley with a M38 barrel.which I would not part with. I shot two moose with the Ackley , one with a no name 156 grain sp, and one with a Norma dual core plastic point 139 gr. the Ackley has a receiver sight, and while my glasses correct my vision well enough to hunt with a peep sight, I do not see well enough to shoot targets at 100 yards or beyond. When this scoped swede came up in the EE last year I was happy to buy it. The Ackley is a wonderful brush rifle, the long barrelled scoped rifle will be used for longer shots. I have bigger rifles, 300 WM etc, but I have become so confident in the swede that it is all I want to carry. My 83 year old father is sure that it is the twist rate that makes the swede such an effective hunting rifle. I don't argue with him.
 
Even happier today, I took it to the range with some 140 prvi bullets loaded to about 2600 and watched through the spotting scope as my nephew put the first three he shot into 7/8", then he pulled one by an inch, then he put another inside the group.
 
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