Sorts of out of bounds, but can´t think of a better place..
Right guys.
Seasoned as far as casting my own, seasoned as far as use of PP and sliders. Bear with me here please, cause i have NO idea where other to post this!
Now. Enter my issue, or.. challenge more like it.
Sry to say the forum doesn´t carry a heading for PP using smokeless. I use duplex and sliders for my Kropatschek with reasonable success for starters. (As well as my Sharps.. and Chassepot and what not)
Be that as it may then..
I live in the country of 6,5*55 Swede and of course that caliber is like all over around here. As much as the mainstay of what i do is blackpower (love it) i DO have a past within IPSC too. As i´ve grown older tho i´m still fond of "shooting on the move" why i for instance get a big broad smile from CAS.
Now.
That being said.. i have indeed turned older, body´s screaming every time i try to move - as for the rest of you guys :bigsmyl2: - and eye sight..yeah well.. you´re with me here i bet.
Enter PRS.
So i fabbed me a neat little PRS-22 gun on a budget.. and the day came for a full grown version.
https://i.postimg.cc/HLkfrcxh/1.jpg
To me over here where i live the choice was a no-brainer really. A Sauer 200 STR in 6,5*55 Swede.
I do know there was a group buy on here a while back for a flat based 170 grain jobbie.. but hear me out here on this one plz.
Issue at hand is that the 6,5 is a hauler. Semi mild loads will reach 2800fps and that coupled with the twist at hand spells death for cast boolits right?
Yeah well.
I´ve got an old 1886 Kropatschek too in 8*60 and that thing being the last dying scream of blackpowder hauls it´s 250 grain pills out the snout doing approx 1700fps. True, a rather far cry from any 2800 but see.. that got me thinking cause the Kropa was developed around using paper patch at first and copper foil following up.
Using ample hardness lead (typo mixed with pure for a BHN up there) to make a slider, to use a paper patch?
In my book that could be had to survive, and that a rather far cry up the ladder as far as speeds go?
The design criteria here is of course to be able to put together dirt cheap practice ammo.. Living in the land of Norma, using the most Swedish caliber there is.. brass can be had dirt cheap already where we´re at.
But what about the boolit?
This is just me blurpin here, but could we even get away with patching a BT style boolit? I might be off marker on this one and if so just blunt tell me so, but.. like a 2100-2400fps setup using PP to harness that say 170-180 grain pill hidden in there?
Gas check, sure but all said PP i bet could be tucked to protect the base from the actual flame correct? If so using repellant even?
The 6,5*55 is a rather old cartridge. We´ve used it around here since at LEAST 1894.. iow just a breath after smokeless was put on market. (Someone will correct me on that one i bet)
That being said it´s seen a sorts of revival due PRS amongst other sporting use, some claim they see better results from it than the way way way later 6,5 Creed even. Mark, in MODERN guns. Like the STR.
Work with me here guys. Please, cause.. i really don´t know where else to put this question/idea/concept.