Swedish Mauser 6.5x55 iron sights question

Interesting, my sights are reversed from that, they start at "3" and increase as you slide backwards, yours looks like it starts at 100 and increases as you slide forward.
My front blade is a -.05



 
Somerset Bar said:
I actually buy my brass from them, but they don't list sights on their parts page, do you mean just drop them a note and see if they can get them?

They actually have great shipping times on reloading items :)
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Yes, that's what I mean, they have a lot of those.
 
07blackwater said:
Since I hand load, what I'm going to try to do is try to build a load that gives me zero @ 100 yards with the sights as they are.

If I can't go that low with the powders I have on hand I'm going to try to emulate the 'torped' loads so the brass disk info will be correct. With mine the disk says '1' so that's 3.5"high @100 meters.

I'm going to buy dies this weekend and I have some Hornady 140.0gr on the way. They're flat base but should work OK. I've had great success with Hornady bullets in other calibers lately so I'm sticking with them.

I'll make sure to post back with results.

I have a few old imperial 160gr that I'm going to run over the chrony in the mean time next time I go to the range just for reference of what the factory loads do.

I think tailoring a load to suit the sights might be more fun than changing them, that could just be me though.

I hope I'm not hijacking the thread, just want to add! I love the old 6.5,just haven't toyed with it in years.
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Do not expect too much of the disc as most of those rifles don't have the original one. They were removed when surplused and the discs were shipped separately and re-installed in Canada.
 
Would make sense since it really seems to be set up to shoot loooong distances, and it doesn't have a threaded barrel. I'll have to do a bit more research on these :)
 
Baribal said:
Do not expect too much of the disc as most of those rifles don't have the original one. They were removed when surplused and the discs were shipped separately and re-installed in Canada.
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I wondered about that but I bought mine 30 years ago and it looked barely fired so I think it might be the proper disk.

The bluing on the inside of the barrel where the shells ride when feeding is pristine.
 
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