Here is a picture of a milk jug filled with water and shot with my Swede at 300 yards. As you may remember from before the rifle has a 2.5x10 Burris Mil Dot scope on it. I have it sighted in at 100 yards with the 6.5 Kurtz group buy. You may remember too I shoot the 6.5's at high velocity. Little more on that later. I places a cardboard behind the jug incase I had to take more then one shot to see where the bullets were going at that distance. Seems I didn't have to as the first mil dot below the crosshair was dead on for my load.
Now more about the high velocity. Some, or should I say many, question why shoot high velocity with the 6.5 Swede. Some are bona fide, but others I feel are sarcasm because they can't do it. Whatever I don't care. My reason is look at the damage to the jug. You can clearly see this wasn't any slow moving 6.5 bullet even at 300 yards. Further more the hole in the cardboard behind the jug showed very good expansion which surprised me. The alloy is 50/50 lead/wheelweights air cooled. Also I feel had I been shooting the bullet at say 1600 fps my drop would have been considerably more. I now have a pretty decent flat shooting cast load for my Swede which in my opinion is still pretty devastating at 300 yards.
Joe
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Originally Posted by Shiloh
