So this is mostly a complaint. I've long shot old Swedes and my daily deer rifle, (AKA "truck gun") is an old swede I cut down to 22" to lose the wear at the muzzle. I paid $100 for that rifle and 50 for the plastic ramline stock I bedded it into. When I was younger it would shoot under 1/2 MOA with both 120 gr Nosler BTs and 140 grain Speer hot cores. Mostly over RL22, or WC 852s. Well this year I'm out of both RL 22 and the 120 grain BTs and the Speer hot cores. And since my eyes are older, (trifocals), I ditched the scout scope and turned down the bolt handle. I'm thinking "we'll tune 'er up and put some 6 power glass on. Maybe some new loads? Come on into the 21st century. So, since I had to buy supplies anyway, I decided to try some of the new stuff. I've had good luck with Hornady ELD-X bullets in my elk rifle so I thought I'd try the 143's in the swede and maybe some of Sierra's new 130 grain tipped game kings. I started looking around at data thinking that the new RL 23 would be perfect, but the data is way out in left field. Alliant's data is now divided into "military" and "commercial". The loads are WAY lower than what I've been running for the last 20 years. Quickload puts the military loads under 10,000 psi! What is this? The commercial loads for the 6.5x55 are all under 15,000 psi! What are they thinking? The MAP for the 6.5x55 is Sammi 51,000 psi and CIP 55,000. So I went through everything I could find on line and the only stuff out there that's even close to what it used to be is Nosler and Hogdon. The Speer military 140 grain loads using RL22 are 7 grains lower than they were in Speer #3, we're talking not a single load of any powder over 80% case capacity, or 10,000 psi. Alliant is the same thing. The RL 23 load I thought should work great they have at less than 85% case capacity, and it's UNDER 20,000 psi for COMMERCIAL actions? What is going on here? I did a little quick math comparison and both Speer and Alliant show max load data for the 6.5 Creedmore that's at about 87% of Saami max, but the commercial 6.5 x55 data is around 70% of saami max, and for military actions its at only 19%. Did all of those old mausers fade into dust when they turned 100 years old or what? Does the 6.5 x 55 make a modern action inherently weaker than a .270 or a creed more? Or, has all of the old data been disproven and Quickload discredited? It's like everything I thought I knew about one of the cartridges I know best is no longer true.