Interesting 6.5 CM Peak comparison with 6.5 PRC

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From the Vortex guys. Yeah, I agree there is a lot of room for biased "interpretation" lets say, but at the end of the day, they are shooting it over a chrony.

BLUF: 20" and 22" barreled Tikkas shooting 6.5 CM Peak ammo outperformed a 24" barreled 6.5 PRC. Velocity gain was about 230-250 ish fps.

Recoil was stated to be notably less than the 6.5 PRC although thats subjective. Would like to see it tested mechanically.

No guns exploded in the shooting of this ammo ;)


 
Interesting, especially if you have a 6.5cm, similar recoil, and from what they say less recoil than the prc, so a win win?!?
 
Big whoop, 80,000psi to gain 1/2" at 300 yards.

What and where are you going to be shooting to see an advantage?
 
MiG25 said:
Big whoop, 80,000psi to gain 1/2" at 300 yards.

What and where are you going to be shooting to see an advantage?
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Anywhere someone might want a 270 or a 6.5 PRC or their mono to be 200 fps faster or...

Maybe....call this crazy...

But past 300 yards.

Btw what's the actual velocity on that Barnes load through a 20 or even 22 inch barrel? ;)
 
MiG25 said:
So in other words you won't use it.
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Imagine a world in which shooters only cared about what they'd personally need or use lol. Ammo technology is interesting.

You won't use it either but that doesn't seem to stop you from being compelled to post as many baseless arguments against it as possible lol.

I'll stop there so as to not help another thread into being locked.
 
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MiG25 said:
So in other words you won't use it.
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Oh, agreed. I won't. BUT, and it's a but I cant't deny, there are others who might go librarian-poo over it. As long as the ammo companies remain in business and sell our favorite loads to us Kanderpian gun nutz, I'm all for it. I own a 6.5x55, so I never bought into the Creed, and I'm not one for magnum or magnum-ish rifle loads, so the 6.5 PRC holds no interest for me either. But happy to have others get toys they like.
 
BLCB said:
If the PRC gets a similar load I will finally get off my ass and buy one. 147grn at 3300fps? Something like that if the gains are similar.
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I don’t think you’ll see any Peak in any magnum.
Lots more I think though in the .480 bolt face.
I’m no engineer, far from it, so I’m likely wrong in my thinking but if you run the math of how large the area of the bolt face is against the different pressures my numbers showed that the Peak has almost the same amount of weight applied against the bolt face as a magnum.
Seems to me most mainstream rifles use the same locking interface on both these bolt faces so I think that’s how they get it by the lawyers (?).
Upping a magnum to 80,000psi would increase the force substantially so I don’t think it’s in the cards.
I think it would also explain why recoil would be similar, differences would come down to weight and rifle ergonomics and without a test bench I’d bet even with identical recoil a tester would say the recoil is lighter in the smaller cartridge even if it is the same.
Interesting technology and I’m looking forward to seeing the real world results when it’s in the hands of the masses over time.
 
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