Originally Posted by
Larry Gibson
Starmetal (Joe)
Now you have gone and done it.....got me all riled up and I had to go pull one of my 6.5 Swedes out of the gun safe. It is a SR Mexican M98 action piller bedded and MicroBed'd into a Fajen stock. The barrel was a new "in the white" M38 barrel milsurp that was easy to screw on the action. Headsapce is tight as with cases that are completely FL sized in the RCBS FL diie can just be felt as the bolt is closed on them. It has a 9X scope on it and she shoots into sub moa with 120 gr Sierra's and 129 gr Hornadys. Trigger is a Timney and breaks clean at 2 lbs. I've not done any cast bullet work with it yet. I put it together before I went to iraq, did some intial tests with known loads and then put it in the gun safe and haven't had it out shooting since. My other HV load testing has been with my M38 scout with a Leupold 2X scout scope on it. It shoots well enough but the 2X scope leaves something to be desired for serious group testing. Attached is a picture of the rifle and another of the 266455 bullets (do they look familiar?) with a '06 formed neck of the cartridge. The bullets shown are only partially lubed. I do that when i shoot them down at 1400 fps (fine grouse load when hunting deer).
Darn, I have so little time between now and when winter and hunting season sets in......sometimes you really irritate me as I'll lose sleep over this now:-)
Larry Gibson